2017 Shanghai Challenger

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
TPE	Lu Yen-hsun	63	1
CAN	Peter Polansky	128	2
KOR	Lee Duck-hee	163	3
JPN	Tatsuma Ito	172	4
JPN	Hiroki Moriya	213	5
EGY	Mohamed Safwat	219	6
CHN	Wu Di	221	7
AUS	Marc Polmans	236	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 28 August 2017.^[1]

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Sun Fajing
• Wang Chuhan
• Wu Yibing
• Zhang Zhizhen

The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:

• Bradley Klahn

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Yuya Kibi
• Bradley Mousley
• Kento Takeuchi
• Xia Zihao

• Wu Yibing def. Lu Yen-hsun 7–6^(8–6), 0–0 ret.

• Toshihide Matsui / Yi Chu-huan def. Bradley Klahn / Peter Polansky 6–7^(1–7), 6–4, [10–5].