{"id":54590,"date":"2025-08-02T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:59:08","slug":"taylor-fritz-ben-shelton-roll-into-fourth-round-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54590\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton roll into fourth round in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — Second-seeded Taylor Fritz<\/a> of the United States beat 6-foot-8 Canadian Gabriel Diallo<\/a> 6-4, 6-2 on Friday night in the third round of the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n

“I thought the crowd was [very] nice for me playing the last player in the tournament from Canada,” Fritz said. “I thought it was going to be a little bit more hostile. But I guess everyone is just so nice. I’ve dealt with a lot worse.”<\/p>\n

Fritz set up a fourth-round match in the hard-court event with 19th-seeded Jiri Lehecka<\/a> of Czechia. Lehecka beat 15th-seeded Arthur Fils<\/a> of France 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Fritz, 27, is No. 4 in the world. He has 10 career ATP Tour titles, winning this year on grass at Eastbourne and Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

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In the late match, fourth-seeded Ben Shelton<\/a> outlasted fellow American Brandon Nakashima<\/a> 6-7 (8), 6-2, 7-6 (5). Shelton will face 13th-seeded Flavio Cobolli<\/a> of Italy.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev<\/a> of Russia beat Lorenzo Sonego<\/a> of Italy 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n

“In the second and third sets, I was able to play more aggressive, fewer mistakes,” Rublev said. “Let’s see what’s happening next, I’m super excited and motivated.”<\/p>\n

Seventh-seeded Frances Tiafoe<\/a> of the United States edged Aleksandar Vukic<\/a> of Australia 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to set up a match with Washington winner Alex De Minaur<\/a> of Australia. De Minaur advanced when countryman Christopher O’Connell<\/a> withdrew.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner<\/a>, the 2023 winner, and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> skipped the hard-court event that ends Thursday. No. 5 Jack Draper<\/a> and No. 6 Novak Djokovic<\/a> also are absent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Second-seeded Taylor Fritz of the United States beat 6-foot-8 Canadian Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-2 on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-54590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}