Shaydorov took fifth place in the short program at the Grand Prix stage in Shenzhen The Kazakh skater received 94.87 points on his skate and took fifth place among 12 participants.
The leader was the Japanese Kao Miura, who scored 102.90 points. His compatriot Sean Sato was second (101.97), the first three were closed by the Russian Yevgeny Semanenko, who competed under a neutral flag (99.72).