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Shelton Wins Fifth ATP Title with Victory in Munich
Shelton saved all six break points and beat Flavio Cobolli in 1 hour, 31 minutes to earn his fifth ATP title and second on clay.
- On Sunday, Ben Shelton defeated Flavio Cobolli 6-2, 7-5 to win the Munich Open, capturing his fifth career ATP title at the ATP 500 event.
- Seeking redemption after losing the final to Alexander Zverev last year, the 23-year-old from Atlanta broke Cobolli's serve early to seize control of the match.
- Shelton hit four aces and saved six break points, clinching victory in one hour and 31 minutes after a closely contested second set.
- The American's second clay-court title makes him the first American man since Andre Agassi at the Rome Masters in 2002 to win a higher-level clay title.
- Expressing big ambitions on the surface, Shelton said it is becoming one of his favorites and he intends to improve his clay-court performance each year.
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Shelton wins fifth ATP title with victory in Munich
Second seed Ben Shelton won the ATP 500 clay-court tournament in Munich for the first time wth a 6–2, 7–5 victory over the Italian Flavio Cobolli who had such an impressive win over Alexander Zverev in the semis.
The American Ben Shelton, a Brazilian engineer João Fonseca, won Munich's ATP 500 for the first time this Sunday. The number 6 of the world and second keyhead of the tournament defeated the Italian Flavio Cobolli (16o) by 2 sets to 0, partial 6/2 and 7/5, a year after his defeat in the final. Shelton achieved the fifth ATP title of his career and the second of the season, after winning in Dallas, in hard court. Last year, Shelton lost in the fin…
A tired Flavio Cobolli, with few residual physical energies, falls in the final against Ben Shelton in Munich. 6-2, 7-5 the final in an hour and a half of two-faced game: evil, very bad in the first set the Roman tennis player, well in the second but not enough. To triumph is the American colleague, who wins his second title of 2026 after that of Dallas, the fifth overall in career, the second on red ground. It ends on the most beautiful so the …
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