2025 Shanghai Challenger

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
GBR	Dan Evans	136	1
JPN	Yosuke Watanuki	148	2
JPN	Yoshihito Nishioka	149	3
AUS	Bernard Tomic	168	4
AUS	James McCabe	176	5
KAZ	Beibit Zhukayev	191	6
TPE	Hsu Yu-hsiou	194	7
JPN	Sho Shimabukuro	198	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 25 August 2025.^[1]

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Cui Jie
• Te Rigele
• Xiao Linang

The following player received entry into the singles main draw through the Next Gen Accelerator programme:

• Zhou Yi

The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:

• Arthur Géa

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Huang Tsung-hao
• Kokoro Isomura
• Filip Peliwo
• Kasidit Samrej
• Renta Tokuda
• Zeng Yaojie

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Petr Bar Biryukov

• Giulio Zeppieri def. Yasutaka Uchiyama 7–6^(7–2), 7–5.

• Pruchya Isaro / Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha def. Jason Jung / Reese Stalder 6–4, 6–7^(2–7), [10–8].