Overview

• Shelton defeated Cobolli 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(1) in a nearly two-and-a-half-hour match at the National Bank Open in Toronto.
• Cobolli served for the match at 5-4 in the final set but dropped four straight points and then lost the tiebreak 7-1.
• Despite outpacing Shelton with 31 winners to 26, Cobolli’s late unforced errors proved decisive in his defeat.
• A tense handshake exchange over Cobolli’s post-match gesture was resolved after he explained it was directed at his own box, not at Shelton.
• Shelton will next face eighth seed Alex de Minaur in Tuesday’s quarterfinal round.