\n Fritz trying to claim honour for fifth consecutive season
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The battle for American No. 1 is coming down to the very end of the season.<\/p>\n
Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton are battling for the spot at the Nitto ATP Finals with one round-robin match remaining for each at Inalpi Arena.<\/p>\n
Fritz is currently No. 5 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings with 4,135 points, 165 points ahead of No. 8 Shelton.<\/p>\n
Shelton began the week ahead of his countryman, but Fritz has gone 1-1 in group play in Turin compared to 0-2 for Shelton. The 200 points Fritz earned by defeating Lorenzo Musetti in his opening match of the week helped him climb past the lefty.<\/p>\n
Although Shelton can still claim year-end American No. 1 from Fritz, he faces an uphill battle. The former University of Florida standout must defeat defending champion Jannik Sinner on Friday to have any chance.<\/p>\n
If Shelton does not defeat Sinner, Fritz will finish the season as at the top-ranked American for the fifth consecutive year. The last player other than Fritz to hold the position was John Isner in 2020.<\/p>\n
Fritz takes on Alex de Minaur on Thursday, when he will try to book his spot in the semi-finals of the Nitto ATP Finals for the third time in his third appearance. If he wins that match, he will clinch year-end American No. 1, because Shelton cannot qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fritz trying to claim honour for fifth consecutive season The battle for American No. 1 is coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-259900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259900","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=259900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}