![\"picture\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7cdb8dd6-cfa9-435e-8de6-8827f857b262-85-2560-1440.jpeg\")
<\/p>\nREIGNING CHAMPION SINNER CRUISES PAST SHELTON TO GEAR UP FOR SEMI-FINAL IN STYLE<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner remains perfect at the 2025 Nitto ATP Finals after continuing his dominance over Ben Shelton.<\/p>\n
The Italian raced to a 6-3 7-6(3) success to extend his lead in the head-to-head to 8-1 and make it three wins from three in the round robin.<\/p>\n
The defending champion had already qualified as the winner of the Bjorn Borg Group but ensured he is in tip-top shape heading into Saturday\u2019s semi-final with Alex de Minaur courtesy of his 29th victory in a row on an indoor hard court.<\/p>\n
Speaking on court following the victory, Sinner said: “When you come here and win all three round-robin matches you have to play some very high level, some great tennis, which I’ve done.<\/p>\n
“I feel like serving very well in important moments has brought me to this point, but again, it was a truly special day playing in front of the home crowd now.<\/p>\n
“Against Ben it\u2019s always a big challenge. You have to take the little chances you have. When he gets out with the huge serve, you cannot do a lot, so you have to accept it and never give up. The mental aspect has been good so far, but let\u2019s see what\u2019s coming tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
On facing De Minaur, he added: “It was one of the best matches I’ve seen him [de Minaur] play against Taylor [Fritz], so I have to be very careful. He doesn\u2019t have a lot to lose and I have a lot to lose, so it\u2019s going to be very difficult. <\/p>\n
“But from my point of view, I’m very happy to be in the semis, a very special occasion for me and hopefully I can show some good tennis.”<\/p>\n
Shelton\u2019s first appearance at the end-of-season event finishes with him losing all three matches, which means his hopes of concluding the year as the American No.1 have also been dashed.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old got off to a rocky start as he was broken in the first game and, although his proactive net rushing made life tricky, he came up short once again as Sinner broke for a second time on his second set point to seal the opener in 39 minutes.<\/p>\n
Shelton took care of business in a serve-dominated second set until the 10th game when he was forced to save match point with some powerhouse forehands and a clutch first serve.<\/p>\n
Sinner could not force any more openings but was too solid in the tie-break as he took it 7-3 to conclude the victory on his second match point in one hour and 36 minutes.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Image credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REIGNING CHAMPION SINNER CRUISES PAST SHELTON TO GEAR UP FOR SEMI-FINAL IN STYLE Jannik Sinner remains perfect at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-262756","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\/262756","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=262756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}