Shanghai Rolex Masters 2016: Monday Tennis Scores, Results and Updated Schedule

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga sailed through the first round of the 2016 Shanghai Rolex Masters on Monday, as he swept aside Florian Mayer in straight sets.

Meanwhile, Alexander Zverev knocked out John Isner, Benoit Paire did the same for Joao Sousa, Nicolas Almagro dumped out Mikhail Youzhny and qualifier Kyle Edmund overcame Federico Delbonis.

Here are all the scores and results from Monday's action:

Result	Score
Benoit Paire bt. Joao Sousa	6-3, 5-7, 6-1
Alexander Zverev bt. John Isner	6-4, 6-2
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bt. Florian Mayer	6-3, 6-2
Steve Johnson bt. Martin Klizan	6-4, 6-3
Kyle Edmund bt. Federico Delbonis	6-3, 5-7, 6-4
Mischa Zverev bt. Ze Zhang	6-1, 6-2
Vasek Pospisil bt. Ivo Karlovic	7-6 (5), 6-4
Taylor Fritz bt. Stephane Robert	7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-3
Viktor Troicki bt. Lukas Rosol	6-2, 6-4
Nicolas Almagro bt. Mikhail Youzhny	3-6, 6-2, 6-2

Here is Tuesday's schedule, courtesy of ATP World Tour:

Round	Matchup
First Round	Lucas Pouille vs. Fernando Verdasco
First Round	Juan Martin del Potro vs. David Goffin
First Round	Feliciano Lopez vs. David Ferrer
First Round	Nick Kyrgios vs. Sam Querrey
First Round	Grigor Dimitrov vs. Richard Gasquet
First Round	Marcel Granollers vs. Yuichi Sugita
First Round	Guido Pella vs. Jack Sock
First Round	Bernard Tomic vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
First Round	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez vs. Paolo Lorenzi
First Round	Gilles Simon vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
Second Round	Novak Djokovic vs. Fabio Fognini
Second Round	Alexander Zverev vs. Marin Cilic
Second Round	Gael Monfils vs. Kevin Anderson
Second Round	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. Janko Tipsarevic

Monday Recap

Tsonga played for the first time since his retirement in the U.S. Open because of a knee injury. As TennisTV revealed, the first six games of the opening set followed serve:

The Frenchman then showed his ruthless nature, breaking Mayer on the way to taking three successive games and the lead in the tie.

Tsonga broke the German twice more as he cruised through the second set, and, encouragingly, he saved all five of the break points he faced over the course of the match.

Per British Tennis, Edmund celebrated his ascent into the men's top 50 in the ATP rankings on Monday:

He also celebrated a victory, as he held off a comeback from Delbonis to win. The Argentinian had levelled the scores after losing the first set, but as the BBC's David Law noted, the Davis Cup star was able to see out the win:

Paire comfortably took the first set in his match with Sousa, breaking him twice while the Portuguese player struggled for a look-in, winning just one point on his opponent's first serve.

Sousa made a strong start to the second, converting his first break point of the match to kick off the set and doing so twice more in succession to take a 4-1 lead. 

After allowing his opponent to level proceedings at 4-4—with both having broken the other three times—the 27-year-old was finally able to take the second 7-5.

He would offer little challenge in the decider, however, as Paire eased to victory and provided one of the highlights of the match, per ATP World Tour:

Record's Jose Morgado was unimpressed with Sousa:

Almagro went a set down early on in his fixture opposite Russian Youzhny, but the Spaniard hit back with back-to-back set wins of 6-2 to complete a superb turnaround in Shanghai.

Meanwhile, Morgado also took note of 18-year-old Taylor Fritz's result, as he took another impressive step in his fledgling career:

He'll play the winner of Bernard Tomic's clash with Roberto Bautista Agut.

On Tuesday, the likes of Novak Djokovic, Marin Cilic and David Ferrer will all be in action as they begin their Shanghai campaigns.