The 26-year-old became the fifth player to qualify for Turin's prestigious event Thursday.

Dan Evans and Neal Skupski saved four match points to outlast Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the deciding doubles match.

Meanwhile, Ben Shelton soars into the Top 20 after reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal in New York.

The world No. 1 was contesting his first tour-level match since winning his second major title at Wimbledon.

The rising American eliminated the former world No. 1, 6-2, 7-6 (5), to progress at the WTA 1000 event Friday.

"Today, I don't know, maybe the stadium, maybe the pressure on him, but I played the best match of my life," said he 105th-ranked Arnaldi.