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Ben Shelton claimed his first ATP Tour title with victory over Aslan Karatsev at the Japan Open in Tokyo league
The 21-year-old only turned professional just over a year ago but has made rapid strides, reaching the US Open semi-finals last month, and he will become the fourth American in the top 15 of the rankings on Monday league
Shelton showed no nerves during the final against Karatsev, and it was the Russian who smashed his racket in frustration during the second set as his opponent eased to a 7-5 6-1 victory league
“That meant a lot to me and my team,” said Shelton on atptour league
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“We have been working really hard since the beginning to build my game and win titles on the ATP Tour league
“I made some deep runs lately league
You see the great champions, they finish weeks off league
They win titles, they don’t just get to finals league
They are able to maintain their level throughout the week league
“I am not saying I am anywhere there yet but to be able to do it for one week, put together five matches in a row in Tokyo, is really special league
”Shelton, who could yet make a charge to qualify for the ATP Finals next month, is coached by his father Bryan, and the pair become the fourth father-son duo to win tour-level singles titles in the open era league
At the other end of the scale, Gael Monfils beat Pavel Kotov 4-6 7-6 (6) 6-3 in the final of the BNP Paribas Nordic Open to become only the fourth player older than 37 to win an ATP Tour title league
Veteran Monfils had to dig deep in Stockholm to down the qualifier after a battle that lasted two hours and 35 minutes league
Monfils, who follows in the footsteps of Roger Federer, Ivo Karlovic and Feliciano Lopez in winning an ATP Tour title aged 37 or older, said: “I ran a lot today league
“When I had to save break points in the second set, I tried to push through league
I don’t know how I pulled up but I kept believing and fighting league
”French teenager Arthur Fils was unable to join his compatriot Monfils in the winners corner after he lost to Alexander Bublik in the European Open final league
Fils had stunned Stefanos Tsitsipas on Saturday to make the showpiece in Antwerp, but came unstuck against tricky Kazakhstan opponent Bublik by a 6-4 6-4 score league
Third seed Bublik sent down 11 aces to clinch the title league
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For a man handed a lifeline in Formula One – with an illustrious Red Bull-shaped reward beckoning down the line – it has not quite been the statement return Daniel Ricciardo envisaged back in July league
What did that look like? Top-10 finishes with AlphaTauri, perhaps with a memorable overtake or two evoking the Ricciardo of old back onto the grid league
But it has in fact been the complete opposite: the only return has been his return to inactivity league
Two races in and a hand injury sustained in practice in Zandvoort, north Holland, back in August has seen the affable Australian feature only on the sidelines again league
A seesaw seven weeks have followed: while on one hand confirmation of a seat on the grid in 2024 was, rather peculiarly, confirmed in his absence in Japan, his deputy Liam Lawson caught the eye with a string of impressive performances, including a team-best result of ninth in Singapore league
So as Ricciardo struts back into the paddock this weekend in Austin, the broken bone in his hand healed, the pressure is firmly on the 34-year-old’s shoulders at his home from home league
Affection works hand in hand with Ricciardo and the United States: he loves America, Americans love him league
Daniel Ricciardo arrived at the circuit in Austin last year on horseback (Getty Images)Last year, weeks after his McLaren exit was announced, the sport’s most cheerful character arrived at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on horseback, kitted out in full cowboy apparel league
Given his injury hiatus, you’d think no such extravagant entries will be repeated this year league
But what he has got back in his hands, as opposed to 12 months ago, is his Formula One destiny league
Perhaps fortuitously, too league
When Ricciardo left Red Bull for pastures new at the end of 2018, his aspiration was that the grass was greener league
Now five years on he is back at Christian Horner’s team, first as a reserve and now at the sister team league
A second bite alongside Max Verstappen is what he truly craves league
And he has made no secret of that league
“Daniel is viewing AlphaTauri… he firmly wants to be pitching for that 2025 Red Bull seat,” said Horner back in July league
“That is his goal and objective and, by going to AlphaTauri, I think he sees that as his best route of stating his case for 2025 league
”And with talk of Sergio Perez’s seat being under threat at Red Bull amid his struggles, there is a feasible route back to the top-table for Ricciardo league
Red Bull chief Helmut Marko has already hinted the Mexican’s future seemingly lies away from Red Bull: most probably in a year, perhaps even as early as before next season league
But before heading off any top contenders outside the Red Bull mothership, the Australian first has to prove his worth amid the in-house competition league
Given Nyck de Vries’s rapid promotion to a seat after just one race last year, Lawson can feel hard done by that his impressive five-race showing – 13th, 11th, 9th, 11th, 17th – in this year’s slowest car hasn’t landed him a seat in 2024 league
So Ricciardo needs to league better Lawson’s two points in the final five races of this season league
He also needs to get the league better of his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, who has earned just three 10th-place finishes in 17 races this year league
That is the minimum league
Ricciardo, right, wants another crack at being Max Verstappen’s teammate, centre (Getty Images)But back stateside, it is the on-track magic and overtaking propensity of near-enough 10 years ago which will catapult him into Red Bull’s second seat conversation league
That will be the key, as opposed to any off-track endeavours or kind words with sponsors league
F1 world champion of 1997, Jacques Villeneuve, is quoted as saying this week: “I would ask kids who want to be drivers today – do you want it out of passion or because you want to be like Daniel Ricciardo, smiling in commercials?”While a tad harsh – best to smile than frown, no? – it does point to a school of thought that Ricciardo’s charisma is now a bigger pull than his talent league
For any driver of any age, that is the ultimate insult league
All of them are fundamentally in F1 to race, to scrap for every point and to jockey for every position league
Even Ricciardo, who has endured the worst two years of his career since his anomaly of a win at Monza in 2021, remains adamant his world-class skillset is still present league
His ambitions, so told to The Independent in July, remain the highest of highs: race wins and even a world championship league
But Ricciardo must grasp the opportunity simply having a seat in this 20-driver sport gives and it starts with the cut-and-thrust of the sprint weekend at COTA league
Nobody is expecting wins or podiums in the slowest car league
But what people do expect is progress – and glimpses of the man of yesteryear league
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