{"id":594731,"date":"2026-04-20T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:00:12","slug":"ben-shelton-beats-flavio-cobolli-to-win-munich-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594731\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton beats Flavio Cobolli to win Munich Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 19, 2026, 09:51 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>MUNICH &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shelton<\/a> bounced back from disappointment last year by defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=7602\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flavio Cobolli<\/a> 6-2, 7-5 to win the Munich Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton lost the final to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> in 2025 and was determined not to let it happen again at the ATP 500 event.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old from Atlanta hit four aces and saved every break point he faced (six) while converting three of his own to beat the 16th-ranked Cobolli in 1\u00bd hours.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the sixth-ranked American&#8217;s fifth career title and second on clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 19, 2026, 09:51 AM ET MUNICH &#8212; Ben Shelton bounced back from disappointment last year by defeating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-594731","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\/594731","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=594731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}