For his first quarter-final at the Rolex Paris Masters, this Friday in Nanterre, Jannik Sinner once again left no chance to Ben Shelton corrected in two sets (6-3, 6-3) by the world number 2. Qualified for the semi-finals, the Italian could find Alexander Zverev, defending champion.
Jannik Sinner (24 years old) is getting closer to a first title in Paris and at the same time a return to the top of the world rankings. Opposed to one of his favorite victims on the circuit, the world number 2 once again put the unfortunate Ben Shelton through the mill (6-3, 6-3), swept away in a little over an hour only by a Sinner who showed no signs of weakness on a physical level this time nor seemed to suffer from his back.
The recent winner of the Vienna tournament, far from being imperial the day before against the Argentinian Francesco Cerundolo to qualify for his first quarter-final in this Rolex Paris Masters, offered himself a new demonstration against the young American, against whom he scored a seventh victory and also continued his impressive series, with now seventeen sets in a row won against the current number 7 in the ranking, who has not won a round against his beast nemesis since his sole success against the Italian, in 2023 in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Masters 1000.
Sinner loses two shutouts then lines up three to end the match!
Sinner, who will regain first place in the world if he wins the tournament for the first time in his career, experienced a downturn – while leading 3-1 in the second set – during this meeting which saw him break Shelton on his third face-off of the game then again, a little later to complete the first set and take the lead. However, it did not last very long.
In distress for two games, both lost white, the time for Shelton to take the service of the runner-up of Carlos Alcaraz for the first time in the match while the latter had again very quickly taken the lead by breaking the striker of Andrey Rublev the day before in his second engagement, Sinner immediately recovered his senses.
And the world number 2 did not lose a single game after that, not without allowing himself to break the American, whom he had beaten twice this season, both times in Grand Slam tournaments, in the semi-finals at the Australian Open and in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, to reach the last four of the tournament for the first time. Sinner could find Alexander Zverev there, whom he had beaten with difficulty in the final in Vienna last Sunday.
