{"id":59048,"date":"2024-02-12T03:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/paul-defeats-shelton-to-reach-atp-dallas-open-final-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T03:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T03:42:29","slug":"paul-defeats-shelton-to-reach-atp-dallas-open-final-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/paul-defeats-shelton-to-reach-atp-dallas-open-final-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul defeats Shelton to reach ATP Dallas Open final | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWASHINGTON:
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Tommy Paul defeated fellow American Ben Shelton 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the Dallas Open final, where he will try to capture his second ATP Tour title.<\/p>\n

World number 15 Paul won 27-of-37 first-serve points (73%) and 14-of-22 on his second serve (64%) to eliminate 16th-ranked Shelton after 79 minutes.<\/p>\n

“These courts helped me a little bit,” Paul<\/a> said. “They’re not jumping quite as high as some of the other courts we’ve played on. Kept the ball in my strike zone a little bit more.<\/p>\n

“Didn’t serve as well as I would have liked to but somehow squeaked out a lot of those service games so that was huge.”<\/p>\n

Paul snapped a six-match losing streak against top-20 opponents to reach his fourth career ATP final.<\/p>\n

“If I get broken I feel like the set is over so it’s high pressure the whole match with him,” Paul said.<\/p>\n

Paul advanced to Sunday’s championship match against the winner of a later semi-final between American Marcos Giron and French fourth seed Adrian Mannarino.<\/p>\n

Paul, who won his only ATP title at Stockholm in 2021, lost his only other tour finals last year at Acapulco and Eastbourne after a run to his first Grand Slam semi-final in the 2023 Australian Open.<\/p>\n

In his first ATP semi-final since last year at Toronto, Paul dispatched the 21-year-old left-hander to level his record against Shelton at 2-2.<\/p>\n

Paul beat Shelton in last year’s Australian Open quarter-finals but lost to him in the fourth round at last year’s US Open as well as in Tokyo, where Shelton took his first ATP title last October.<\/p>\n

Paul broke for a 3-2 lead and reeled off four games in succession to capture the opening set.<\/p>\n

In the second set, Shelton sent a backhand volley wide to surrender a break and give Paul a 2-1 edge. They both held serve from there until the end.<\/p>\n

World number 67 Giron, who lost his only ATP final in 2022 at San Diego, upset US top seed Frances Tiafoe in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

World number 17 Mannarino, a winner in his past three ATP finals, seeks his sixth tour title after lifting trophies at Rosmalen in 2019, Winston-Salem in 2022 and last year at Newport, Astana and Sofia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: Tommy Paul defeated fellow American Ben Shelton 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the Dallas Open final, where he will try to capture his second ATP Tour title. World number 15 Paul won 27-of-37 first-serve points (73%) and 14-of-22 on his second serve (64%) to eliminate 16th-ranked Shelton after 79 minutes. “These courts helped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/paul-dallas-2024-qf-21707643302-0\/paul-dallas-2024-qf-21707643302-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t