{"id":2393,"date":"2023-10-13T00:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/sebastian-korda-beats-ben-shelton-in-3-sets-at-shanghai-masters\/13\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T00:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:10:46","slug":"sebastian-korda-beats-ben-shelton-in-3-sets-at-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/sebastian-korda-beats-ben-shelton-in-3-sets-at-shanghai-masters\/13\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Korda beats Ben Shelton in 3 sets at Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SHANGHAI — Sebastian Korda<\/a> reached the semifinals at a Masters tournament for the first time by rallying to beat Ben Shelton<\/a> 6-7, (10), 6-2, 7-6 (6) Thursday at the Shanghai Masters.<\/p>\n

It was the first all-American Masters quarterfinal match since 2017 and both players were two points from winning at the end.<\/p>\n

“I’m just thankful to stay calm,” said Korda, who won on his sixth match point. “I played some bad points but I always believed in myself, even at 6-6 (in the final tiebreaker). I just thought about putting the return in the court, somehow getting my racquet on it and luckily I finished it off then.”<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Korda also reached the semifinals at the Zhuhai Open and the Astana Open on the tour’s Asia swing.<\/p>\n

The 19th-seeded Shelton, playing in his first Masters quarterfinal, had 17 aces but Korda broke his serve five times.<\/p>\n

Korda will play Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> in the semifinals after the Polish player rallied to beat 82nd-ranked Fabian Marozsan<\/a> 4-6, 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Hurkacz lost only nine points on serve in the second and third sets.<\/p>\n

“He came with some really great shots, and I just needed to stay positive and keep committing to the game plan,” Hurkacz said. “To be aggressive, because if I dropped anything short he was just taking advantage of it and coming with some really incredible shots. I knew I had to stay on point today.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SHANGHAI — Sebastian Korda reached the semifinals at a Masters tournament for the first time by rallying to beat Ben Shelton 6-7,