American Ben sheltonNumber 10 seeds, for the first time on Monday 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), Wimbledon reached the quarter-finals with 7-5 wins Lorenzo Songo – One who also protected him the rights to brag the family.
Twenty-eight years ago, Shelton’s father and current coach, Bryan, lost 10–8 in the fifth set, which proved the high point of his Grand Slam career for Christian Bergstrom in the 16 round in Wimbledon.
Younger Shelton became the fourth black American man to reach the quarter -finals at the All England Club since the open Era started, Arthur Ash (three times), Malivai Washington (1996) and joined. Christopher Ubank (2023).
Ash (UCLA), Washington (Michigan) and Urbank (Georgia Tech) all played college tennis, as shelton did, who was the NCAA single champion in Florida.
At the age of 22, Shelton is the youngest American person to reach Wimbledon Quarter as Andy Rodik did so on 21 in 2004.
Shelton joins number 5 Taylor fritz In the quarter -finals, expanding one run, two American men are seen reaching the last eight in five consecutive slams. This is the longest line as it took place in 24 straight Major from the 1991 French Open to the 1997 Australian Open.
Shelton, who first arrived in the semi -finals in Melbourne and flushing the Meadows, started the Monday’s match, leaving their first set of the tournament, but the third set attacked the net in a major second set before running through the tiebreak and then broke into the final game to secure the victory.
Shelton and Songo were meeting for the third time this year in a major, in which Shelton won their previous competitions at the Australian Open and French Open. This was the first time since 1984 when two people met in each of the first three big companies of a season – that year, John Mconaro and Jimmy Consors played in French, Wimbledon and US Open, Maceno won all three meetings (at that time the Australian Open was held in December).
ESPN Research and Reuters contributed to this report.
