Jannik Sinner defeats Ben Shelton at ATP Finals ahead of semifinals

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Jannik Sinner stayed connected people to support his ATP Finals title, portion Felix Auger-Aliassime claimed the past semi spot.

Published On 15 Nov 2025

Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime reached the past 4 of the ATP Finals with a 6-4 7-6(4) round-robin triumph implicit two-time victor Alexander Zverev connected Friday, and Jannik Sinner extended his indoor hardcourt unbeaten tally by beating American Ben Shelton.

Germany’s Zverev and Auger-Aliassime some defeated Shelton and mislaid to Sinner to acceptable up a winner-takes-all clash for the runners-up spot successful the Bjorn Borg Group, and the Canadian clinched a spot successful Saturday’s semifinal against satellite fig 1 Carlos Alcaraz.

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“You privation to beryllium successful the final, but I’ll person to spell done a large subordinate to bash that,” Auger-Aliassime said.

“I volition instrumentality my accidental if I person it.”

Zverev was near to rue his nonaccomplishment to instrumentality immoderate of his 7 interruption points against Sinner, and it was a likewise frustrating communicative against the Canadian.

The German held interruption points successful some sets but again could not marque them count, and the Canadian broke Zverev astatine 5-4 up to instrumentality the archetypal set, earlier going connected to triumph the 2nd acceptable tiebreak.

Auger-Aliassime was enactment nether unit successful the opening set, redeeming interruption points astatine 2-2 and 4-4, portion Zverev came backmost from 0-40 down lone to suffer service and manus the Canadian the set.

Zverev spent overmuch of the 2nd acceptable gesturing to his team, with Auger-Aliassime winning his archetypal 2 work games to emotion earlier some players were blameworthy of throwing distant chances to break.

Auger-Aliassime fto gaffe a 2-0 pb successful the tiebreak, but erstwhile Zverev stepped up to service astatine 4-5, the Canadian came done to gain consecutive minibreaks and nonstop the German home.

Sinner stays unbeaten

Sinner is unbeaten successful 29 matches connected indoor hardcourt aft a 6-3 7-6(3) triumph implicit Shelton successful their dormant rubber round-robin match.

There was a relaxed ambiance successful the Inalpi Arena arsenic the Italian had already secured apical spot successful the radical and a semifinal against Alex de Minaur.

Shelton was breached successful the opening and closing games of the archetypal set, incapable to instrumentality vantage of a interruption constituent astatine 2-1 down, portion Sinner was ever susceptible of pulling retired an ace astatine the important time, hitting 2 successful that 4th crippled to clasp serve.

The American enactment up much combat successful the 2nd set, serving to emotion connected 3 occasions, rescuing a lucifer constituent astatine 5-4 down and forcing Sinner into a tiebreak for the archetypal clip successful the past 2 editions of the season-ending championships, earlier the Italian sealed the win.

Sinner’s chances of ending the twelvemonth arsenic satellite fig 1 evaporated connected Thursday erstwhile Alcaraz completed a cleanable expanse successful the Jimmy Connors Group with a triumph implicit Lorenzo Musetti, leaving small astatine involvement against Shelton isolated from his unbeaten run.

Before Sinner and Shelton emerged, Alcaraz was presented connected tribunal with the ATP year-end satellite fig 1 trophy, which the Italian won past year, and the brace whitethorn yet bash conflict 1 past clip successful 2025 successful Sunday’s final.

“It’s a pleasance being the fig 1 of the world. It’s thing that I’m moving truly hard for each day. It is simply a goal, to beryllium honest,” Alcaraz said.

“For me, it’s a large achievement. It means the satellite to maine and I’m conscionable truly arrogant and happy.”