Gea stuns Shelton for first Top 10 win and reaches Shanghai last 16 on Masters 1000 debut
Arthur Gea beat Ben Shelton (No. 3) 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) on Sunday night to reach the Shanghai last 16 on his Masters 1000 debut. It is the first Top 10 win for the 21-year-old Frenchman, and it stops Shelton from qualifying for the ATP Finals, for now.
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Frenchman Arthur Gea, playing his first Masters 1000 event, beat American Ben Shelton, the No. 3 seed, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) on Sunday night to reach the last 16 of the Rolex Shanghai Masters. In their first meeting, he won both tiebreaks to earn the first Top 10 win of his career.
The defeat cost Shelton an early place at the ATP Finals. The world No. 4, who turned 24 on Friday, would have qualified for Turin for the second straight year with a win. He now has to wait to join Alexander Zverev and Carlos Alcaraz among this year’s qualifiers.
