Until October 2009, no city in Asia had ever hosted a Masters 1000. Then Shanghai, which had spent four years staging the sport's year-end finale, got a tournament of its own at the level just below the Grand Slams. It was the first event of its kind on Asian soil, and it is still the only one outsi...
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