{"id":18547,"date":"2025-08-03T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/ben-shelton-gathers-in-the-third-set-to-reach-torontos-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:03:29","slug":"ben-shelton-gathers-in-the-third-set-to-reach-torontos-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/ben-shelton-gathers-in-the-third-set-to-reach-torontos-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton gathers in the third set to reach Toronto&#8217;s quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; US fourth seed Ben Shelton gathered in the third set, beating Italy&#8217;s 13th seed Flavio Koboli on Sunday night at the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton overcame a 4-2 deficit in the final set to advance to the quarterfinals on Tuesday in a hard court event that ends Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, the TV cameras showed Shelton and Koboli had words in a hot exchange on the net.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton faces Australia&#8217;s ninth seed Alex de Minaurus, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, and wins US seventh seed Francis Tierfour 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton, 22, won two ATP Tours in Tokyo last year on Hard Court in 2023. The 23-year-old Cobolli won the Clay event this year with his only tour title in Hamburg and Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Russia&#8217;s sixth seed Andrei Rublev led Spain 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2), 3-0 Alejandro Davidevich Fokina, 3-0, when Davidevich Fokina retired due to fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Lublev faces the winner of a late match between US second seed Taylor Fritz and Czech Gili Lehekka.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; US fourth seed Ben Shelton gathered in the third set, beating Italy&#8217;s 13th seed Flavio Koboli on Sunday night at the National Bank Open. Shelton overcame a 4-2 deficit in the final set to advance to the quarterfinals on Tuesday in a hard court event that ends Thursday. After the match, the TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[719,5220,1588,197,150,720,24,5221],"class_list":{"0":"post-18547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ben","9":"tag-gathers","10":"tag-quarterfinals","11":"tag-reach","12":"tag-set","13":"tag-shelton","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-torontos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}