{"id":74859,"date":"2026-06-14T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/ben-shelton-bests-fellow-american-taylor-fritz-in-stuttgart-for-first-title-on-grass\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:55:34","slug":"ben-shelton-bests-fellow-american-taylor-fritz-in-stuttgart-for-first-title-on-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/ben-shelton-bests-fellow-american-taylor-fritz-in-stuttgart-for-first-title-on-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton bests fellow American Taylor Fritz in Stuttgart for first title on grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Shelton fights back to win third title of season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Grass specialist Fritz was defending champion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American top seed Ben Shelton beat countryman and defending champion Taylor Fritz 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 to win the Stuttgart Open ATP title on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Grass court specialist Fritz had never previously lost a final on the surface. Shelton broke the second seed once in the opening set and once in the third to claim victory in 1 hour 48 minutes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/14\/ben-shelton-taylor-fritz-stuttgart\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelton fights back to win third title of season Grass specialist Fritz was defending champion American top seed Ben Shelton beat countryman and defending champion Taylor Fritz 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 to win the Stuttgart Open ATP title on Sunday. Grass court specialist Fritz had never previously lost a final on the surface. Shelton broke the &#8230; <a title=\"Ben Shelton bests fellow American Taylor Fritz in Stuttgart for first title on grass\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/ben-shelton-bests-fellow-american-taylor-fritz-in-stuttgart-for-first-title-on-grass\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ben Shelton bests fellow American Taylor Fritz in Stuttgart for first title on grass\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}