{"id":57241,"date":"2025-08-04T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:14:09","slug":"ben-shelton-rallies-in-3rd-set-to-reach-toronto-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57241\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton rallies in 3rd set to reach Toronto quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — Fourth-seeded Ben Shelton<\/a> of the United States rallied in the third set to beat 13th-seeded Flavio Cobolli<\/a> of Italy 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (1) on Sunday night in the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n

Shelton overcame a 4-2 deficit in the final set to advance to the quarterfinals Tuesday in the hard-court event that ends Thursday.<\/p>\n

After the match, television cameras showed Shelton and Cobolli having words in a heated exchange at the net.<\/p>\n

“Really difficult match. I was down and out, being a break down in the third, the way that he was playing,” Shelton said. “I gave myself a second chance and I did a good job with it, kind of running from there. A really difficult opponent for me, someone who’s gotten me in three sets after I’ve won the first set twice.”<\/p>\n

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Shelton will face ninth-seeded Alex De Minaur<\/a> of Australia, a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 winner over seventh-seeded Frances Tiafoe<\/a> of the United States 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Shelton has two ATP Tour victories, in Tokyo on hard courts in 2023 and Houston on clay last year. The victory Sunday was his 100th in 169 tour matches.<\/p>\n

“I thought I did a really good job rallying and finding a way to put returns in the court late in the match,” Shelton said. “I was struggling with my two biggest weapons, the serve and the first-ball forehand. Coming through in the end I think speaks a lot about my mental toughness and my ability to be scrappy in those moments, more so than my actual play.”<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Cobolli won clay events in Hamburg and Bucharest this year for his lone tour titles.<\/p>\n

Earlier, sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev<\/a> of Russia led Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> of Spain 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2), 3-0 when Davidovich Fokina retired because of exhaustion.<\/p>\n

Rublev will face second-seeded American Taylor Fritz<\/a>, who defeated Czechia’s Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5) in the late match.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Fourth-seeded Ben Shelton of the United States rallied in the third set to beat 13th-seeded Flavio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-57241","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\/57241","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=57241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}