{"id":24394,"date":"2025-10-03T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/after-layoffs-shelton-loses-opening-match-at-the-shanghai-masters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:24:10","slug":"after-layoffs-shelton-loses-opening-match-at-the-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/after-layoffs-shelton-loses-opening-match-at-the-shanghai-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"After layoffs, Shelton loses opening match at the Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>SHANGHAI &#8211; Seed Ben Shelton, the sixth seed Ben Shelton, who hasn&#8217;t played since suffering a left shoulder injury at the US Open, was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by David Goffin in his second round match at the Shanghai Masters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Goffin broke Shelton&#8217;s serve shortly after play resumed after a brief rainy suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Shelton said he hopes to qualify for the ATP Finals, which will be held in Turin, Italy from November 9th despite a five-week layoff.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton is currently sixth in the Turin points race, with eight of them reaching the finals. But his Friday loss will put a dent in those ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point this year, this is the first time I&#8217;ve put myself in a good position to make Turin,&#8221; Shelton told the ATP Tour website this week ahead of his match against Goffin. &#8220;Hopefully we&#8217;ll get a little better results and get through the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another second round match, American Francisti\u00e1fo, seeded 25th, lost 6-7 (9), 6-2, 6-1 to German Yannick Hanfmann.<\/p>\n<p>All the top seed players in Shanghai received goodbye in the first round. No. 4 Novak Jjokovic and fifth seed Taylor Fritz were scheduled to play later Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jannik Sinner, who won the China Open Finals in Beijing on Wednesday, was not scheduled to play until Saturday. Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, who defeated Fritz in the Japan Open Finals, announced after his victory in Tokyo that he would not play in Shanghai due to some minor illnesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGHAI &#8211; Seed Ben Shelton, the sixth seed Ben Shelton, who hasn&#8217;t played since suffering a left shoulder injury at the US Open, was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by David Goffin in his second round match at the Shanghai Masters on Friday. Goffin broke Shelton&#8217;s serve shortly after play resumed after a brief rainy suspension. Earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6477,2713,4576,285,188,6457,720,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-24394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-layoffs","9":"tag-loses","10":"tag-masters","11":"tag-match","12":"tag-opening","13":"tag-shanghai","14":"tag-shelton","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394","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=24394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}