{"id":236758,"date":"2025-10-31T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236758\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:59:09","slug":"paris-masters-jannik-sinner-beats-ben-shelton-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236758\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Masters: Jannik Sinner beats Ben Shelton to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner dropped serve in the middle of the second set, but soon re-established his advantage to wrap up victory over Shelton, 23, inside 70 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the moment I&#8217;m not thinking about the ranking,&#8221; added the Australian Open and Wimbledon champion. &#8220;It&#8217;s a consequence of how I&#8217;m playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Making the semis here in Paris means a lot. It has been a very long season with some great, great results and I never take these results for granted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner will face Zverev in the last four after the German fought back to beat Medvedev 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alexander Bublik will appear in a Masters semi-final for the first time after winning 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 7-5 against Australian sixth seed Alex de Minaur, sparking emotional scenes for Kazakhstan&#8217;s number one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 13th seed will next face Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime, with the ninth seed having ended the run of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cx2x2d749qwo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghai Masters champion Valentin Vacherot<\/a> with a 6-2 6-2 success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner dropped serve in the middle of the second set, but soon re-established his advantage to wrap up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}