2025 Nitto ATP Finals {Qualifications}
Shelton to make Nitto ATP Finals debut
American ensures his spot with win Thursday in Paris
October 30, 2025
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Ben Shelton will make his Nitto ATP Finals debut.
By ATP Workers
Ben Shelton certified for the Nitto ATP Finals on Thursday when he reached the quarter-finals of the Rolex Paris Masters, leaving just one spot remaining on the season finale in Turin.
Shelton will play within the year-end championships for the primary time after a career-best season through which he made his second main semi-final and claimed ATP Masters 1000 glory for the primary time.
With Shelton and Taylor Fritz within the subject, it’s the first time two American singles gamers will compete for the Brad Drewett Trophy since 2006, when James Blake and Andy Roddick have been within the subject. Blake superior to the ultimate that yr.
Shelton made a fast begin to his 2025 marketing campaign by reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open, the place solely eventual champion Jannik Sinner was in a position to cease him.
The massive-serving lefty made the Munich remaining in April and in June cracked the High 10 within the PIF ATP Rankings, changing into the fourth lefty from the USA to take action (since 1973). He joined Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Roscoe Tanner.
However the former school tennis standout’s largest second got here in Toronto the place, then 22, he turned the youngest American Masters 1000 champion since 21-year-old Roddick triumphed in Miami in 2004.
Shelton joined Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Novak Djokovic and Fritz within the Nitto ATP Finals subject. Solely two singles spots stay on the season finale, with Alex de Minaur and Lorenzo Musetti at the moment seventh and eighth, respectively, within the PIF ATP Dwell Race To Turin.
