{"id":22743,"date":"2025-08-07T05:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/shelton-vs-khachanov-toronto-masters-1000-final-after-defeating-fritz-and-zverev\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:16:44","slug":"shelton-vs-khachanov-toronto-masters-1000-final-after-defeating-fritz-and-zverev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/shelton-vs-khachanov-toronto-masters-1000-final-after-defeating-fritz-and-zverev\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelton vs Khachanov: Toronto Masters 1000 Final after defeating Fritz and Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ben Shelton Advances to the National Bank Open Final After Defeating Taylor Fritz<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting American semifinal, Ben Shelton, seeded number four, defeated Taylor Fritz, second seed, with a score of 6-4, 6-3 at the National Bank Open.\n\nShelton will now face Karen Khachanov of Russia, the eleventh seed, who won his semifinal against Alexander Zverev, the top seed.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of significant improvements in my game this week, that&#8217;s what pleases me the most, how I&#8217;m executing, how much I&#8217;m doubting, how I&#8217;m subtracting. There are many things to be proud of, and beating two top 10 players consecutively is huge for me.<\/p><cite>Ben Shelton<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nShelton, 22, is seeking his third ATP Tour title. His previous victories were in Tokyo in 2023 and in Houston last year.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m really excited to see myself executing like this, without wondering if the shot is going to go in or out, but rather expecting it to go in.<\/p><cite>Ben Shelton<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe match between Shelton and Fritz was delayed 15 minutes due to a problem with the electronic line call system.\n\nKhachanov, with seven titles in his career, managed to survive a match point.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today was very close. I was close to the match. If the ball touches the net and falls, we wouldn&#8217;t be talking now.<\/p><cite>Karen Khachanov<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nZverev, champion of 2017, is ranked number 3 in the world.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The first set was terrible. I gave him an advantage and he&#8217;s too good not to take advantage of it.<\/p><cite>Alexander Zverev<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nZverev was the top seed, with Jannik Sinner, the 2023 winner, and Carlos Alcaraz absent from the event.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelton Advances to the National Bank Open Final After Defeating Taylor Fritz In an exciting American semifinal, Ben Shelton, seeded number four, defeated Taylor Fritz, second seed, with a score of 6-4, 6-3 at the National Bank Open. Shelton will now face Karen Khachanov of Russia, the eleventh seed, who won his semifinal against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3201,618,4110,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-22743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ben-shelton","9":"tag-semifinal","10":"tag-taylor-fritz","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743","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=22743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}