Armed with a booming serve as prodigious as his sense of entitlement, the 20-year-old upstart is out to buck the odds in the US Open semi-finals
few months ago Ben Shelton appeared on a podcast called All on the Table, a brown bag session he held with Christopher Eubanks and Francis Tiafoe. For an hour, the three Americans chewed the fat about life on tour between big bites of steak. But the conversation doesn’t really get interesting until Eubanks and Tiafoe, the seasoned professionals, ask Shelton what his ultimate goal is now that he’s spent a year on the men’s tour.“Who wants to see you right now?” Eubanks said.
Ben Shelton conducts an on-court interview with ESPN’s Brad Gilbert after defeating Frances Tiafoe on Tuesday night in the US Open quarter-finals.Tennis is in his bones. His mother was a highly ranked junior, his sister is a Gator now and his uncle is Todd Witsken, an Australian Open quarterfinalist. His father, Bryan, is a former French Open mixed doubles runner-up who holds the distinction of being the only coach to win men’swomen’s NCAA titles.
, the first major quarter-final between two Black American men, Shelton smacked 14 aces against 11 double faults – two of which came late in the third-set tiebreaker. “I mean, he hit some really good shots,” Tiafoe said afterward, “running forehands, some great shots on the run, came up with some good stuff. … I had a look there, at 7-6, he hit an unbelievable return from way back.
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