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Ben Shelton

Video: How Shelton received Munich

Relive the important thing moments from the American’s title run on the ATP 500 by means of video

April 19, 2026

Ben Shelton turned the primary American in collection historical past (since 2009) to win three ATP 500 titles on Sunday on the BMW Open by Bitpanda in Munich, the place he downed Flavio Cobolli within the ultimate.

ATPTour.com relives his journey to the trophy by means of movies of key moments within the week.

Shelton is pushed onerous by countryman Emilio Nava within the first spherical, however prevailed 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-3 in his first match on European clay this 12 months.

With a win within the locker, the 23-year-old then survived a second-round check towards Alexander Blockx, who competed on the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals in 2025. Shelton saved two set factors within the second set to achieve the quarter-finals in Munich, recording a 6-4, 7-6(8) victory.

Shelton’s best check but awaited him within the quarter-finals on Friday, when he confronted Brazilian Joao Fonseca within the pair’s first Lexus ATP Head2Head assembly. Fonseca lifted a trophy on clay in Buenos Aires in 2025 and pushed Shelton onerous all through the one-hour, 50-minute conflict. Nevertheless, the 19-year-old in the end fell brief, with the No. 6 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings Shelton incomes a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win.

Into his second semi-final of the season after profitable Dallas, Shelton put his foot down towards Slovakian qualifier Alex Molcan to return to the Munich ultimate. The lefty, who misplaced to Alexander Zverev within the championship match on the ATP 500 in 2025, dispatched Molcan 6-3, 6-4 to set a championship match conflict with Flavio Cobolli.

In an entertaining ultimate, Shelton served up two moments of magic at 5-1 within the opening set. The primary got here at 0/0, when the American leapt into the German sky to dispatch an overhead…

Shelton then discovered an absurd forehand winner from the boardings after Cobolli’s serve had compelled him broad.

Shelton would go on to win the set after which the match 6-2, 7-5 to raise his fifth tour-level trophy and second on clay, after triumphing in Houston in 2025. The American is up three spots to fifth within the PIF ATP Stay Race To Turin following his standout week in Germany. Shelton is now 17-5 on the season, in accordance with the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

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