On Sunday, October 18, two players who began 2026 outside the top 140 played for the biggest titles of their careers, on opposite sides of China. In Shanghai, 20-year-old Rafael Jodar led by a set and a double break and was two points from winning his first Masters 1000, before Alejandro Davidovich Fokina came back to win 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-4.