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10/11 02:45 CDT US Open finalist Ben Shelton is out of the Shanghai Masters in
the third round
US Open finalist Ben Shelton is out of the Shanghai Masters in the third round
SHANGHAI (AP) --- U.S. Open finalist Ben Shelton is out of the ATP 1000
Shanghai Masters, beaten 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) by 21-year-old Frenchman Arthur Gea
in the third round Sunday.
Shelton, who won his first match in Shanghai on his 24th birthday, faced three
match points at 6-3 in the second-set tiebreaker and Gea converted on his first.
In other early third-round matches Sunday, ninth-seeded Alex de Minaur beat Rei
Sakamoto 7-6 (6), 6-4 and 26th-seeded Karen Khachanov defeated Adrian Mannarino
6-2, 6-4.
Top-seeded and U.S. Open champion Alexander Zverev was scheduled to play a
night match Sunday against Quentin Halys.
No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner withdrew from Shanghai this week when he announced
he was taking the rest of 2026 off because of a right knee injury.
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