{"id":7253,"date":"2023-09-06T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/09\/06\/us-open-ben-shelton-continues-shock-run-into-semifinals-as-he-downs-fellow-american\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T05:29:12","slug":"us-open-ben-shelton-continues-shock-run-into-semifinals-as-he-downs-fellow-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/us-open-ben-shelton-continues-shock-run-into-semifinals-as-he-downs-fellow-american\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Ben Shelton continues shock run into semifinals as he downs fellow American"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For a moment, it looked as if Ben Shelton’s biggest strength could be his undoing.<\/p>\n
The young American, who reached serve speeds of up to 149mph in his last match, fired 12 aces on Tuesday night and continually unsettled Frances Tiafoe with his power.<\/p>\n
But he just couldn’t get his serves to stick over the course of two crucial tiebreak points in the third set, as two consecutive double faults turned a 6-5 advantage into a 7-6 hole.<\/p>\n
Not for the only time on the night, though, the 20-year-old found a way to dig himself out, scraping himself to a tiebreak win and an eventual 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n
It had been 15 years since two black American men faced off at Arthur Ashe Stadium before Tiafoe and Shelton took center stage on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The previous time a matchup of that description occurred, a 28-year-old James Blake outlasted a 19-year-old Donald Young in five sets, and there was a similar – if slightly less pronounced – gap in experience this time around.<\/p>\n