New Delhi: Jannik Sinner didn’t produce his flashiest tennis on Friday in Turin but he didn’t need to. What mattered was control, composure and finding the right answers when the match tightened. He delivered the performance of the night as he beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (3) to wrap up the round-robin stage with a 3-0 record at the Nitto ATP Finals. The defending champion has now stretched his indoor winning streak to 29 matches which in itself is a defining threads of his season.

Shelton entered the match with nothing to lose as he already got eliminated from the tournament after his earlier defeats yet he still turned the match into a proper contest. On the other hand, Sinner had the burden of expectations from a home crowd that has taken him in as its own. His serve wasn’t to the mark a

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