Shanghai Masters: Impressive Shelton fights back to oust in-form Safiullin and make last 16
Ben Shelton edged out Roman Safiullin 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and will play the winner of the match between Jannik Sinner and Sebastian Baez in the next round
Ben Shelton at the 2023 Laver Cup (Javier Garcia/Shutterstock/SIPA)
American Ben Shelton, the No 19 seed, edged out Russian Roman Safiullin 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to move into the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters at the Qi Zhong Stadium.
Shelton, ranked No 20, will play the winner of the match between Italian Jannik Sinner, the No 6 seed, and Argentinian Sebastian Baez, the No 25 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Shanghai tournament, the 20-year-old American won against Spaniard Jaume Munar (6-4, 6-4).
Safiullin, ranked No 50, beat Andy Murray (6-3, 6-2) and German Alexander Zverev, the No 9 seed (6-3, 6-1) earlier in the tournament.
Shanghai Masters, other third-round results (Qi Zhong Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Ugo Humbert
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Daniel Evans
- Matteo Arnaldi vs. J.J. Wolf
- Lorenzo Sonego vs. Nicolas Jarry
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Andrey Rublev
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Taylor Fritz
- Tommy Paul vs. Arthur Fils
- Grigor Dimitrov vs. Karen Khachanov
- Zhizhen Zhang vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Jannik Sinner vs. Sebastian Baez: sunday
- Marton Fucsovics vs. Francisco Cerundolo: sunday
- Fabian Marozsan beat Dusan Lajovic: 6-3, 6-3
- Hubert Hurkacz (16) beat Yu Hsiou Hsu (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Sebastian Korda (26) beat Daniil Medvedev (2): 7-6 (8), 6-2
- Casper Ruud (8) beat Christopher Eubanks (29): 6-4, 6-2
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