{"id":77383,"date":"2026-08-13T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/ben-shelton-prevails-in-all-american-final-to-retain-canadian-open-title\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:54:46","slug":"ben-shelton-prevails-in-all-american-final-to-retain-canadian-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/ben-shelton-prevails-in-all-american-final-to-retain-canadian-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton prevails in all-American final to retain Canadian Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American wins second straight Masters 1000 title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Shelton improves to 6-0 against fellow American<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Norrie advances as Draper falls in Cincinnati<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Shelton broke onto the scene by winning his first-ever ATP Masters 1000 championship a year ago in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>He earned his second crown at that level \u2060by successfully defending his Canadian title on Thursday, defeating fellow American Brandon Nakashima 6-3, 7-6 (4) to win the National Bank Open in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/13\/ben-shelton-brandon-nakashima-canadian-open-final-tennis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American wins second straight Masters 1000 title Shelton improves to 6-0 against fellow American Norrie advances as Draper falls in Cincinnati Ben Shelton broke onto the scene by winning his first-ever ATP Masters 1000 championship a year ago in Toronto. He earned his second crown at that level \u2060by successfully defending his Canadian title on &#8230; <a title=\"Ben Shelton prevails in all-American final to retain Canadian Open title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/ben-shelton-prevails-in-all-american-final-to-retain-canadian-open-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ben Shelton prevails in all-American final to retain Canadian Open title\">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-77383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77383","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=77383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}