Jannik Sinner was surgical, perfect in the decisive points, just what was needed against a big server like Ben Shelton, defeated for the fourth time in five direct clashes.
The South Tyrolean won with a score of 6-4, 7-6 (7-1 in the tiebreak) in an hour and a half and reached the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 in Shanghai.
The world number 1 cancels seven break points (two in the first, five in the second set, three of which are consecutive), takes advantage of the only one in his favor in the first set and plays a practically perfect tie-break in the second set, dominating it 7-1.
In the quarterfinals he will face the winner of the match, Russian Danil Medvedev, with a probable semi-final against Carlos Alcaraz in sight.
(Online Union)
