{"id":395831,"date":"2023-01-25T05:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395831"},"modified":"2023-01-25T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:22:36","slug":"paul-beats-shelton-in-first-all-american-quarter-final-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/paul-beats-shelton-in-first-all-american-quarter-final-since-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul beats Shelton in first all-American quarter-final since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">Tommy Paul used his experience and consistency to beat Ben Shelton 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in a battle of attrition on Rod Laver Arena and reach a maiden Grand Slam semi-final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TP \u27a1\ufe0f AO semifinals for the first time \u261d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyPaul1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TommyPaul1<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AO2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KJRPBTrL5c\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KJRPBTrL5c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1618152681520140290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">The 25-year-old ended his fellow American&#8217;s fairytale run at the Australian Open in a clash between two unseeded players &#8211; the first all-American quarter-final since Andy Roddick played Mardy Fish in Melbourne in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Only a year ago, the 20-year-old Shelton was ranked outside the top 500 and was playing for the University of Florida college team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-s4-rs mb-5 md:mb-3 -md:common-container\">\n<p>&#8220;This is my first time on this court and in the quarter-finals of a Slam,&#8221; Paul said afterwards. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually Shelton&#8217;s first time leaving the States so I think he had a pretty good trip as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I was doing a couple of interviews and they were asking how I felt to be in the quarter-finals. I was like &#8216;semi-finals sounds a little better&#8217; so I&#8217;m pumped to be there and obviously really excited for whoever I play on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making it to the second weekend of a Slam is everyone&#8217;s dream when they start playing tennis so I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m here right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyPaul1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TommyPaul1<\/a> is through to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AO2023<\/a> semifinals \ud83e\udd29 <\/p>\n<p>He defeats compatriot Ben Shelton 7-6(6) 6-3 5-7 6-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wwos<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@espn<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Eurosport<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wowowtennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wowowtennis<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPV97iIfkQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yPV97iIfkQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1618155943539404800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul will face either Serbian nine-time champion Novak Djokovic or Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev for a place in Sunday&#8217;s title match.<\/p>\n<p>He also became the first American man into the last four of the Australian Open since Andy Roddick in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The win put Paul into his first major semi-final on the 14th attempt, with the world number 35&#8217;s previous best at Wimbledon last year when he reached the fourth round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Paul used his experience and consistency to beat Ben Shelton 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in a battle of attrition on Rod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395832,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17246,16740,17245],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 25-year-old reach Grand Slam semis for the first time","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395831"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395831"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}