Here’s way to watch Taylor Fritz vs. Ben Shelton live stream, Start time, TV channel for Canadian National Bank Open match. Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton will clash in a rare all-American ATP Masters 1000 semifinal at the Canadian Open on Wednesday.
While Fritz registered a 6-3, 7-6 win over 2024 finalist Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals, Shelton snapped Alex de Minaur’s seven-match winning streak 6-3, 6-4 to reach his first Masters semifinal.
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This is just the fourth time since 2000 that two American men will clash in the final four of an ATP 1000 event. In their only previous match-up, Fritz earned a hard-fought three-set win over Shelton in the Round of 64 at the 2023 Indian Wells Masters.
Fritz vs. Rublev will air on Tennis Channel, you can stream it on DirecTV (free trial).
Here’s what you need to know:
What: National Bank Open, quarterfinal
Who: No. 2 Taylor Fritz vs. No. 6 Andrey Rublev
When: Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025
Where: Centre Court, Sobeys Stadium, Toronto, Canada
Time: 7 p.m. ET
TV: Tennis Channel
Live stream: DirecTV (free trial), Sling, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV
Here’s a recent tennis story via The Associated Press:
TORONTO (AP) — Top-seeded Alexander Zverev rallied to defeat No. 18 Alexei Popyrin of Australia 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3 on Monday to reach the semifinals of the National Bank Open.
Zverev, the 2017 tournament champion, will face No. 11 seed Karen Khachanov of Russia, who beat No. 26 Alex Michelsen of the U.S. 6-4, 7-6 (3).
Zverev, a German who is ranked No. 3, advanced to his 75th ATP Tour semifinal. He is looking for his 25th tournament title and eighth in an ATP 1000 Masters tournament.
The other quarterfinals are Tuesday. Second-seeded Taylor Fritz will take on No. 6 Andrey Rublev of Russia, while No. 4 Ben Shelton is slated to meet No. 9 Alex de Minaur of Australia. Both semifinals go Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s title match.
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Popyrin took the first set when his gentle backhand volley after a long rally grazed the top of the net and dropped for the winning point — much to the delight of his fans, including one with an inflatable yellow kangaroo.
Zverev responded by immediately firing a ball completely out of Sobeys Stadium in frustration, but quickly regrouped to go up 2-0 in the second set.
Popyrin grabbed a break of his own before holding serve at 4-4. Zverev, who won the Canadian title in Montreal eight years ago when he defeated childhood idol Roger Federer, took a 5-4 lead and then again broke his opponent to even the match.
Ousted at the quarterfinal stage of last year’s tournament, Zverev got another break to go up 2-0 in the third set before serving out the match.
The 28-year-old, who lost to top-ranked Jannik Sinner in the final at this year’s Australian Open and made the French Open quarters, improved to 4-0 all-time against Popyrin, including a third-round victory at the Paris Olympics.
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Zverev has two tournament wins on clay this year, and is the highest-ranked player competing in a Toronto field lacking some significant star power after Sinner, No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz, No. 5 Jack Draper and No. 6 Novak Djokovic all skipped the hard-court event.
The 25-year-old Popyrin, ranked No. 26, had his nine-match winning streak in Canada snapped.
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Taylor Fritz vs. Ben Shelton: Match Preview
In 2024, the battle for American bragging rights on the men’s side was held in the US Open semifinals, when Fritz came back to beat Frances Tiafoe in five sets. This year, a mini version of that same battle will take place on Wednesday night in Toronto, when Fritz plays Shelton. They’re the top two Americans—Fritz is ranked No. 4, Shelton is No. 7—and they’re both in a good run of form at the moment. This is a match we could see again in a few weeks, in the later rounds of the US Open.
They’ve met once before, two years ago in Indian Wells. Shelton won the first set, before Fritz came back to win the match in three. Since then, they’ve been in the same sections of draws quite a few times, but one or the other has lost before they’ve had a chance to face off. Shelton sounds ready to take another crack at his “great friend.”
“I played him kind of right when I came out on tour,” Shelton says. “We had a great battle in Indian Wells. I never played him in the later stages of a tournament, that was the first or second round. I’m really excited.”
