{"id":2764,"date":"2026-09-09T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:00:29","slug":"ben-shelton-told-what-is-different-about-him-this-year-after-epic-carlos-alcaraz-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton told what is \u2018different\u2019 about him this year after epic Carlos Alcaraz win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Shelton is surely on cloud nine after finally toppling Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> to keep his US Open dreams alive.<\/p>\n

Prior to their meeting in the US Open quarterfinals, Ben Shelton had not beaten Carlos Alcaraz in their three career matches and he had only ever won one set against the Spaniard.<\/p>\n

That all changed as he beat the world No 3 in five sets to confirm a tantalising semi final match against compatriot Frances Tiafoe in New York.<\/p>\n

Shelton has been incredibly impressive at the US Open this year and he now has his best-ever chance to win a Grand Slam, with the likes of Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, and now Alcaraz all out of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Rennae Stubbs firmly believes Shelton can claim the major and she has revealed what she found \u2018different\u2019 about the star in his match with Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

More Ben Shelton news<\/h2>\n

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On X<\/a>, the Australian Grand Slam champion said: \u201cThe look in Ben\u2019s face in the match was different. It was a look of complete focus, almost like he knew he couldnt get to excited when he was winning or had won points.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so used to his excitement all the time, it was different last night,\u201d she continued. \u201cDestiny? Maybe\u2026but what a match.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only thing Stubbs<\/a> is now worried about is Shelton\u2019s<\/a> recovery time, as he did not leave the court until nearly 4am after beating Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinishing at 3:30am is bonkers and I hope like hell Ben can recover,\u201d said Stubbs, before defending the US Open<\/a> for their scheduling of the quarter finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is, on this one, how could it have avoided? Every match went the distance! Sadly this is tennis for you. It was arguably the greatest match day in tennis history & to the crowd that stayed until 3:30am, bravo!\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelton\u2019s match with Tiafoe<\/a> is set for Friday, 11th September, which means he has one more day off than he has normally been used to at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n

He will surely be watching with eager eyes as the other two quarter final matches take place on Wednesday, 9th September\u2019s order of play.<\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev<\/a> will be the heavy favourite as he takes on Botic van de Zandschulp<\/a>, while Karen Khachanov<\/a> takes on Alexander Blockx<\/a> in one of the more unlikely Grand Slam quarter finals.<\/p>\n

Shelton and Zverev are the top seeds left in the competition this year, so they are undoubtedly the favourites to lift the Grand Slam at this tournament. But as we\u2019ve seen this year, anything can happen at the Flushing Meadows event.<\/p>\n

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Ben Shelton is surely on cloud nine after finally toppling Carlos Alcaraz to keep his US Open dreams alive. Prior to their meeting in the US Open quarterfinals, Ben Shelton had not beaten Carlos Alcaraz in their three career matches and he had only ever won one set against the Spaniard. That all changed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}