The American profited from foot faults and double-faults from his Belgian opponent in advancing to a round of 16 for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
“It was a good day for me, I managed the match well,” said 23-year-old Shelton. “He came out serving extremely well. I had to make some adjustments.<\/p>\n
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“It was a good day for me, I managed the match well,” said 23-year-old Shelton. “He came out serving extremely well. I had to make some adjustments.<\/p>\n
“I found a way to break his serve and kept the foot on the gas when I got the lead.”<\/p>\n
Shelton plays for a repeat spot in the last eight when he faces Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca<\/a>, who defeated ninth seed Casper Ruud<\/a> 7-6(6), 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fonseca recovered after a slow start, trailing the Norwegian 4-2 before fighting his way back into contention.<\/p>\n The youngster finished off the win after leading 5-2, claiming victory on a second match point winner into the empty court.<\/p>\n “It was not easy at the start. He was serving well,” the Brazilian said. “I fought to finally get the win.”<\/p>\n Fonseca said he learned much after beating Ruud at Roland Garros: “Playing with the big guys this year was really important for my development.<\/p>\n When it comes to Shelton, Fonseca said, “I think I’ll be prepared. He’s a nice guy. I don’t need to say how good he is on court. I’m just trying to rest and be prepared.”<\/p>\n Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> followed up his defeat of top-seeded Roland Garros champion Alexander Zverev<\/a>, with the Dutchman gaining late momentum and getting through a rough patch for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3<\/a> defeat of Matteo Arnaldi<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Italian French Open semi-finalist took early command before Griekspoor took motivation through player box instructions from Swedish coach Thomas Hogstedt<\/a> and turned the match on its head.<\/p>\n World number 66 Griekspoor went up two breaks in the deciding set against the 2024 Canadian semi-finalist, lost one of them but broke back for victory in his third match point after more than two hours.<\/p>\n “Tennis is such a tricky sport. It’s never over until the last ball is hit,” Griekspoor said. “I tried to stay focused; I’m happy with how I managed.<\/p>\n “I’ve had a good level in practice but was not able to convert it to the match court. Today was not easy, but I’m pleased after a win like this.<\/p>\n “I was far from my best, but I’m happy I played myself into the match to win it.”<\/p>\n Griekspoor will bid for a quarter-final place when he takes on Spaniard Daniel Merida<\/a>, who put out Alex Michelsen<\/a> 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-1<\/a>, saving two match points in the second set for the American.<\/p>\n Merida, who had never won a tour-level hardcourt match prior to this week, arrived in Canada after winning the Umag title on clay in Croatia last month.<\/p>\n Czech Jakub Mensik<\/a> advanced past Terence Atmane<\/a> 7-5, 6-4<\/a>, winning back-to-back matches for the first time since reaching the semis two months ago in Paris to break fresh ground in Canada.<\/p>\n He will next play Botic Van De Zandschulp<\/a>, who beat Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> 3-6, 7-6(7), 7-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton threw down eight aces and produced three love games in the second set in dominating Zizou…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731282","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\/731282","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=731282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}