It is September 2026, and Alexander Zverev is the champion of two Grand Slam titles, standing on the threshold of the world number one ranking. If anyone had uttered this sentence a few months ago, they would have surely been
Alexander Zverev was crowned US Open champion for the first time in his career, claiming his second Grand Slam title. “We went 30 years without winning a Grand Slam title and now we won two in a span of three
New York, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and 23 years of drought. All these elements converge this Sunday in Ben Shelton’s destiny. The American will play his first Grand Slam final in a city that has played a defining role in
When Ben Shelton and Carlos Alcaraz embrace at the net after four and a half hours, five sets, and a super tie-break, the clock reads 3:34 a.m. in New York. The stands at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis arena
NEW YORK — With his epic victory over Carlos Alcaraz, Ben Shelton made the leap he needed and has now claimed the favourite’s tag for the 2026 US Open. The pressure is all his. The match the North American won
MELBOURNE – Tennis journalism will soon be left with only Wimbledon. There, on the surface where it all began, the press remains a valued and respected institution. Elsewhere, partly at the expense of television, the press is increasingly marginalised, increasingly
LONDON – As rain interrupted Saturday’s outdoor courts action, Ben Shelton was sending missiles all over Wimbledon’s Court 1. His powerful serve was even more effective under the fully enclosed retractable roof. The North American left-hander beat Denis Shapovalov 6-7
Novak Djokovic is right: Ben Shelton was rude, and it’s good that the Serb has finally set the record straight, especially after the confusion he himself generated at the 2023 US Open. But Djokovic navigates in a sea of
Rafael Nadal could come back and win five more Grand Slam titles. He could even regain the number one ranking, but nothing would matter when it comes to one certainty: his era is over, the tennis he created with Roger
NEW YORK – The question for Ben Shelton was also intended to be a joke in allusion to how young he is (and how fast technologies are advancing). “Have you ever used a phone?” The home phones, the ones that
LONDON – Christopher Eubanks spoke a while back about a big desire. “To be able to tell people that don’t know tennis:'(I played) a quarters of Wimbledon’. That’s a different level of respect,” he told Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton
MELBOURNE – In a sport as international as tennis, if a player enters the top 100 without having left his country is an atypical situation. It can only happen to a player born in one of the sport’s powerhouses, clearly,
