{"id":53679,"date":"2025-08-08T04:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:27:06","slug":"ben-shelton-defeats-karen-khachanov-in-toronto-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53679\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton defeats Karen Khachanov in Toronto final"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — Ben Shelton<\/a> won the National Bank Open on Thursday night for the third and biggest title of his young career Thursday night, rallying to beat 11th -seeded Karen Khachanov<\/a> of Russia 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (3).<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Shelton, seeded fourth, became the first American winner in the Masters 1000 hard-court event since Andy Roddick<\/a> in 2003. Shelton also won on hard courts in Tokyo in 2023 and on clay in Houston last year.<\/p>\n

Shelton is also the youngest American to win any Masters 1000 title since since Roddick won Miami in 2004 when he was age 21, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n

“It’s a surreal feeling,” Shelton said. “It’s been a long week, not an easy path to the final. My best tennis came out when it mattered most. I was clutch, I persevered, I was resilient. All the qualities I like to see in myself.”<\/p>\n

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Shelton will move up a spot to a career-high sixth in the world. He beat Khachanov a night after topping second-seeded Taylor Fritz<\/a> 6-4, 6-3 in an all-American semifinal match.<\/p>\n

The winner had seven of his 16 aces in the third set, and ended the match by winning 14 consecutive points on serve.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Khachanov has seven career victories — all on hard courts. In the semifinals, he survived a match point in another third-set tiebreaker against top-seeded Alexander Zverev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner<\/a> — the 2023 winner in Toronto — and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> skipped the expanded event as they prepare the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Julian Cash<\/a> and Lloyd Glasspool<\/a> won the all-English doubles final, saving four match points in a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 13-11 victory over Joe Salisbury<\/a> and Neal Skupski<\/a>. The second-seeded Wimbledon champions have won 19 straight matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Ben Shelton won the National Bank Open on Thursday night for the third and biggest title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-53679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}