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<\/p>\nDefending champion Jannik Sinner remained on course for a showdown with his rival Carlos Alcaraz as he defeated America’s Ben Shelton 6-3 7-6 at the ATP Finals on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Italian produced a straight-sets victory to complete a perfect round-robin in Turin as he progressed to the semi-finals, where he will face Australia’s Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n
Sinner had already secured the top place in the Bjorn Borg Group, and with world No 1 Alcaraz advancing, a potential championship match between the two rivals could go ahead if they both win their respective semi-finals.<\/p>\n
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\n Italy’s Sinner celebrates during the ATP World Tour Finals match against Shelton<\/p>\n
The Italian is yet to drop a set after three round-robin matches and his 6-3 7-6 (3) win against Shelton made it 29 successes in a row on indoor hard courts.<\/p>\n
It was a familiar feeling for American Shelton, who fell to 0-3 on his debut at the tournament having lost to Sinner for the eighth time in a row and fourth this year.<\/p>\n
“When you come here and win all three round-robin matches you have to play a very high level, some great tennis, which I’ve done,” said Sinner on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“I felt like serving, I’ve done very well in important moments, brought me to this point. The mental aspect was great until now so let’s see what’s coming tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> On Saturday, Sinner will face Alex De Minaur in the semi-finals after the Australian scraped into the last four by just one game ahead of Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n De Minaur must try to get the better of Sinner for the first time in 13 attempts, and the Wimbledon champion said: “I have to be very careful. He doesn’t have a lot to lose. I have a lot to lose, so it’s going to be very difficult.”<\/p>\n British success in the doubles continued with Henry Patten and his Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara booking their spot in the last four thanks to a 7-6 (5) 6-2 win over fourth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic.<\/p>\n Patten joins all-British pairs Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool and Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski in the last four – the first time five players from one country have reached the semi-finals since 1992.<\/p>\n Watch the ATP and WTA Tour Finals, live on Sky Sports or stream with NOW<\/a> and the Sky Sports app<\/a>, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Jannik Sinner remained on course for a showdown with his rival Carlos Alcaraz as he defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-262820","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\/262820","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=262820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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