Ben Shelton has gone back-to-back at the Canadian Open following his victory over Brandon Nakashima in Thursday's final.

Shelton scooped the ATP Masters 1000 title in Toronto last year, and he has taken that same level of success to Montreal.

The American won 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to join Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in winning successive titles in Canada during this century.

"To play the way that I have here, going through without dropping a set... it speaks to the work that I've put in and my mental toughness," said Shelton.

"I was able to focus this week, and it has not been such a straightforward season for me.

"I'm playing at the top of my limit – I've got no words."

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It marked the first Masters 1000 final contested between two American players since 2003, when Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish battled it out in Cincinnati.

Indeed, it was the first all-American showdown at the Canada Open since 1995, and Shelton has now won all six of the matches he has contested against Nakashima.

Shelton's home from home

This victory sealed Shelton's second Masters 1000 title. He is the fourth player to win his first two titles at the same event in consecutive years, after Boris Becker (Stockholm 1990 and 1991) Lleyton Hewitt (Indian Wells 2002 and 2003) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (Monte Carlo 2021 and 22).

Shelton is just the third man since 1990 to win the Canadian Open without dropping a set, after Pat Rafter (1998) and Djokovic (2016) – both Rafter and Djokovic went on to reach the US Open final that year.

He is now the sixth left-hander to win multiple Masters 1000 titles after Guy Forget, Goran Ivanisevic, Thomas Muster, Marcelo Rios and Nadal.