{"id":19531,"date":"2025-08-08T00:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/ben-shelton-defeated-karen-khachanoff-in-the-toronto-final\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T00:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:10:45","slug":"ben-shelton-defeated-karen-khachanoff-in-the-toronto-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/ben-shelton-defeated-karen-khachanoff-in-the-toronto-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton defeated Karen Khachanoff in the Toronto final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Ben Shelton won the National Bank Open on Thursday night, Thursday night, with the third and largest title of his young career.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton, 22, who came in fourth, became America&#8217;s first winner in the Masters 1000 hard court event since Andy Roddick in 2003. Shelton won the Tokyo Hard Court in 2023 and Clay in Houston last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to an ESPN survey, Shelton is also the youngest American to win the Masters 1000 title since Roddick won Miami in 2004 when he was 21 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a surreal feeling,&#8221; Shelton said. &#8220;It was a long week and not an easy path to the finals. My best tennis came out when it mattered most. I was a clutch, I was patient, I was resilient.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton is a career-high sixth place in the world. He defeated Kachanov after topping second-seeded Taylor Fritz in the national semi-finals 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The winner had seven of the 16 aces in the third set and ended the match by scoring 14 consecutive points on serves.<\/p>\n<p>Kachanov, 29, has seven career victories &#8211; all on the hard court. In the semi-finals, he survived the match point with another third-set tiebreaker with top-seeded Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>No with top-ranked Jannik Sinner, the 2023 winner in Toronto. Carlos Alcaraz of 2 skipped the expansion event when preparing for the US opening.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Cash and Lloyd Graspool won the All-English doubles final, saving four match points in a 6-3, 6-7 (5) 13-11 victory over Joe Salisbury and Neil Skepski. Second-seeded Wimbledon Champion won 19 straight matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Ben Shelton won the National Bank Open on Thursday night, Thursday night, with the third and largest title of his young career. Shelton, 22, who came in fourth, became America&#8217;s first winner in the Masters 1000 hard court event since Andy Roddick in 2003. Shelton won the Tokyo Hard Court in 2023 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[719,2804,63,5373,5425,720,24,4473],"class_list":{"0":"post-19531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ben","9":"tag-defeated","10":"tag-final","11":"tag-karen","12":"tag-khachanoff","13":"tag-shelton","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19531","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=19531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}