Ben Shelton left the US for the primary time in 2023 to embark on the tour of the Antipodes. In his first look on the Australian Open, he reached the quarter-finals. That was his ceiling within the match
The American overcame Lorenzo Sonego, 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(4), on Wednesday. Ben, a private wager of Roger Federer and his agent Tony Godsick, returns to the penultimate spherical of a significant. He was already there on the US Open in 2023. On that event Novak Djokovic closed the doorways on him. On Friday he’ll face the winner of the match between Jannik Sinner and Alex de Minaur.
The match with Sonego was outlined by unforced errors. The Italian made a staggering 55 unforced errors in comparison with 33 for his opponent, who was capable of break his opponent’s serve as soon as extra (three to 2).
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An endangered species
Shelton, ranked twentieth within the ATP rankings on the age of twenty-two, has turn into the twenty fifth American tennis participant to interrupt into the highest 4 on the first main on the calendar. Ben is barely the second left-hander since 1988 to achieve the semifinals of each the Australian Open and the US Open. The opposite was Rafael Nadal
