Nadal dumped out of Shanghai Masters

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Germany's Florian Mayer beat Rafael Nadal 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the third round of the Shanghai Masters.

14 October,2011 06:44 am

Top seed Rafael Nadal was sent crashing out of the Shanghai Masters on a dramatic day of action Thursday but defending champion Andy Murray survived a testing encounter to reach the quarter-finals.World number two Nadal lost 6-7 (5/7), 3-6 to Germanys Florian Mayer, edged out in a first set tiebreak and broken twice in the second set, stunning the crowd at the Qi Zhong stadium.Mayer made the crucial breakthrough in the seventh game of the second set to lead 4-3 and the Spaniard could not respond, broken again in the final game with the 15th seed taking his first match point.Earlier, second seed Murray, on a red-hot run of form of 21 wins from 22 matches coming into the clash against the Swiss 13th seed Stanislas Wawrinka, won 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.The British player looked set for a straightforward victory after taking the first set but cut a frustrated figure as he conceded a break of serve in the second set as Wawrinka levelled the match with an ace.Murray raced into a 5-0 lead in the decider as Wawrinka was warned by the umpire after smashing his racket, but despite a late wobble he closed out the match.Spains Ferrer edged into the last eight when he beat Juan Carlos Ferrero, who had strapping applied to his right ankle midway through the second set.Third seed Ferrer won the all-Spanish tie 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 after a major fright in the 10th game of the second set, when he was forced to save three match points on his own serve.The win for Ferrer means he becomes the fifth player to qualify for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals, featuring the worlds top eight singles players over the year.American 10th seed Andy Roddick beat Spanish seventh seed Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-4 and Ukrainian 12th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov won 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 against Australian teenager Bernard Tomic.Japans Kei Nishikori triumphed over Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 7-6 (8/6), 4-6, 6-3 and Australias Matthew Ebden beat eighth seed Gilles Simon of France 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (10/8).In the late match, Spains Feliciano Lopez beat sixth seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4.