Thursday's Shanghai round of 16 pits Bernard Tomic against Ilya Ivashka on hard. Bernard Tomic comes in at 8 wins from the last ten. Ilya Ivashka has won 6 of the last 10.

Neither the serve numbers nor the ratings separate these two by much, which is why our number stays close to even. Tomic comes in off a compressed schedule; Ivashka arrives with very little recovery time. A tiebreak or two would surprise nobody, with Tomic fractionally more likely to land the big points.