Alcaraz beats Shelton to win Paris Masters title
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Carlos Alcaraz beat Ben Shelton 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 on Sunday to win the Paris Masters for the first time. It was his ninth 1000-level title.
Carlos Alcaraz won the Paris Masters for the first time on Sunday, beating American Ben Shelton 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 in the final. The 23-year-old Spaniard, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, claimed the ninth 1000-level title of his career. The match lasted just under two hours.
The result gave Alcaraz some payback against Shelton, who ended his US Open title defence earlier this season in a five-set quarterfinal in New York.
Alcaraz said he had come to Paris every year without finding his best tennis, but never gave up. He added, smiling, that he had suffered painful losses in the city and always told himself to try again. Former Paris Masters winner Boris Becker handed him the trophy.
On the way to the title, Alcaraz saved match points against Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals. He had also won the 500-level title in Vienna before arriving in Paris and has now won nine matches in a row. He has won two French Opens and is undefeated in title matches in the city.
Alcaraz, ranked third in the world, has five tour-level titles this year. Only the injured Jannik Sinner has more, with six. Alcaraz next heads to the ATP Finals in Turin, from November 15 to 22, where he will seek his first title at the event.
It was Shelton's first loss in a Masters final. The world number four had won both of his earlier finals at that level, at the last two editions of the Canadian Open.
