{"id":22097,"date":"2025-08-05T05:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/shelton-comeback-and-beats-cobolli-in-toronto-clash-at-the-net\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:16:03","slug":"shelton-comeback-and-beats-cobolli-in-toronto-clash-at-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/shelton-comeback-and-beats-cobolli-in-toronto-clash-at-the-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelton Comeback and Beats Cobolli in Toronto; Clash at the Net"},"content":{"rendered":"In an exciting day at the National Bank Open, American tennis player Ben Shelton, seeded number four, achieved an epic comeback to defeat Italian Flavio Cobolli, seeded number 13, with a score of 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (1).\n\nShelton, demonstrating great tenacity, overcame a 4-2 deficit in the final set to secure his place in the quarterfinals of the tournament that concludes on Thursday.\n\nAfter the match, the cameras captured a tense exchange of words between Shelton and Cobolli at the net.\n\nIt was a really tough match. I was down and almost out, with a break in the third, the way he was playing. I gave myself a second chance and did a good job, running from there. A really tough opponent for me, someone who has taken me to three sets after I won the first set twice.\n\nIn his next challenge, Shelton will face Australian Alex De Minaur, ninth seed, who previously defeated American Frances Tiafoe with a score of 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.\n\nWith two ATP Tour titles, one in Tokyo in 2023 and another in Houston last year, this victory represents Shelton&#8217;s 100th win in 169 matches played.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think I did a really good job of recovering and finding a way to put the scraps on the court at the end of the match. I was struggling with my two most important weapons, the serve and the initial forehand. Getting to the end I think speaks a lot about my mental strength and my ability to be combative in those moments, more than my actual game.<\/p><cite>Ben Shelton<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nOn the other hand, the Italian Cobolli, 23 years old, has titles on clay in Hamburg and Bucharest this year.\n\nIn other results, sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev led Alejandro Davidovich Fokina with a score of 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2), 3-0 when Davidovich Fokina retired due to exhaustion.\n\nRublev will face American Taylor Fritz, the second seed, who defeated Jiri Lehecka with a score of 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5) in the last match of the day.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting day at the National Bank Open, American tennis player Ben Shelton, seeded number four, achieved an epic comeback to defeat Italian Flavio Cobolli, seeded number 13, with a score of 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (1). Shelton, demonstrating great tenacity, overcame a 4-2 deficit in the final set to secure his place in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3201,2483,167,2100],"class_list":{"0":"post-22097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ben-shelton","9":"tag-quarter-finals","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-toronto"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}