{"id":25932,"date":"2025-10-31T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/jannik-sinner-overtakes-ben-shelton-to-qualify-for-paris-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:21:30","slug":"jannik-sinner-overtakes-ben-shelton-to-qualify-for-paris-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/jannik-sinner-overtakes-ben-shelton-to-qualify-for-paris-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner overtakes Ben Shelton to qualify for Paris semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PARIS &#8211; Jannik Sinner defeated Ben Shelton 6-3, 6-3 on Friday to reach the Paris Masters semifinals for the first time and move closer to reclaiming the top spot in the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner&#8217;s seven consecutive victories over American competitors extend his indoor winning streak to 24 through November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>If Sinner wins the Paris title, his first Masters trophy of the year, he will be back at No. 1 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He will next face defending champion Alexander Zverev, who saved two match points and defeated Daniil Medvedev 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n<p>F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime ended wild card Valentin Bachelot&#8217;s run in Paris in the quarter-finals 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Bachelot had won his previous 10 Masters matches, including his first title in Shanghai this month, but Auger-Aliassime, who reached his fourth Masters semi-final, proved too good for the Monaco player.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime has reached 10 tour-level semi-finals this season, winning titles in Adelaide, Montpellier and Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian will next face Alexander Bublik after the Kazakhstani defeated sixth seed Alex de Minaur without dropping serve 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Bublik has won 30 of 37 matches since the French Open, winning four titles and becoming the first Kazakh to reach the semifinals of the Masters.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8211; Jannik Sinner defeated Ben Shelton 6-3, 6-3 on Friday to reach the Paris Masters semifinals for the first time and move closer to reclaiming the top spot in the world rankings. Sinner&#8217;s seven consecutive victories over American competitors extend his indoor winning streak to 24 through November 2023. If Sinner wins the Paris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[719,163,721,1029,6762,1849,720,29,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-25932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ben","9":"tag-jannik","10":"tag-overtakes","11":"tag-paris","12":"tag-qualify","13":"tag-semifinals","14":"tag-shelton","15":"tag-sinner","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932","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=25932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}