{"id":22337,"date":"2025-11-12T17:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/atp-finals-felix-auger-aliassime-beats-ben-shelton-before-jannik-sinner-faces-alexander-zverev\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:54:56","slug":"atp-finals-felix-auger-aliassime-beats-ben-shelton-before-jannik-sinner-faces-alexander-zverev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/atp-finals-felix-auger-aliassime-beats-ben-shelton-before-jannik-sinner-faces-alexander-zverev\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Finals: Felix Auger-Aliassime beats Ben Shelton before Jannik Sinner faces Alexander Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auger-Aliassime quickly found himself 4-1 down in the first set, with Shelton putting the serve and volley to good use, but he broke back as his opponent served for the set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a poor service game handed the initiative &#8211; and the opener &#8211; to fifth seed Shelton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shelton had the only break point of the second set but an increasingly confident Auger-Aliassime saved it, before clinching the tie-breaker on a wild double fault from Shelton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A tight third set was also decided on the Shelton serve, with Auger-Aliassime converting his third match point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was playing much better than me at the start,&#8221; Auger-Aliassime said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a weird start, but as the match went on I was finding ways to put returns in the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/czdrm1nzplyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auger-Aliassime quickly found himself 4-1 down in the first set, with Shelton putting the serve and volley to good use, but he broke back as his opponent served for the set. However, a poor service game handed the initiative &#8211; and the opener &#8211; to fifth seed Shelton. Shelton had the only break point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22339,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions\/22339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}