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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nThe 23-year-old took care of business on Friday in Munich, halting the Brazilian\u2019s bid to become just the tenth teenager to reach the semifinals at the event with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s runner-up in Munich improves to 8-0 in ATP 500 events this season after capturing the title in Dallas in February. Shelton, ranked No. 6 in the world, reached his 14th career semifinal and notched his first Top 40 win on clay since defeating Francisco Cerundolo en route to last year\u2019s final in Munich.<\/p>\n
Shelton struck seven aces and won 38 of 45 first-serve points in the match. Afterward, the American said he appreciated the warmer, sunnier conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly a much warmer day today, which led to more serve-plus-one tennis and shorter rallies compared to some of the colder days,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cSo maybe not the kind of long rallies people were expecting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The American lost just 15 points on serve overall, though he was broken in the eighth game of the second set, allowing Fonseca to force a decider.<\/p>\n
In the third set, Shelton never faced a break point. He secured the crucial break for 4-2 before closing out the match with two love holds.<\/p>\n
Shelton came away impressed by his first meeting with the rising Brazilian, currently ranked No. 35.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s an electric player\u2014one of the fastest-rising stars we\u2019ve seen on tour,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really cool to watch his trajectory. For me, sharing the court with him is a privilege. He brings great energy, has fans all over the world, and I really enjoy that kind of atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Up next, Shelton will face either Denis Shapovalov or Alex Molcan for a place in the final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love playing here,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cWhat is this, my eighth match? I\u2019m 7-1 on this court\u2014it\u2019s been good to me. I\u2019ve won tough matches, even some I maybe shouldn\u2019t have, and I\u2019m really looking forward to tomorrow, no matter who it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top seed Alexander Zverev will face Flavio Cobolli in the top-half semifinal on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to expectations on clay, Joao Fonseca is already being touted by many as a future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-590931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590931","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=590931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}