{"id":517599,"date":"2026-09-09T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517599"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:03:56","slug":"shelton-shocks-alcaraz-in-late-night-us-open-show","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/shelton-shocks-alcaraz-in-late-night-us-open-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelton shocks Alcaraz in late-night US Open show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelton ended Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s title reign in the latest-finishing match in US Open history, pulling out a 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) triumph in a phenomenal game that finished at 3:33 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard&#8217;s 18-game winning streak in Grand Slam tournaments ended in a game that began just after 11 p.m. and lasted almost 4 and a half hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE MOMENT BEN SHELTON BEAT CARLOS ALCARAZ IN THE LATEST FINISHING MATCH IN US OPEN HISTORY. <\/p>\n<p>3:33 in the morning. <\/p>\n<p>But when you play the sport like that, you lose all sense of time.<\/p>\n<p>Ben brought back his phone celebration \ud83d\udcde<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Big Ben time. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd79 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GDjTROpH5f\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GDjTROpH5f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/2097590644642590809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of supporters watched the whole match, and Ben benefited from a home-crowd boost even vs. the popular Carlos, with fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium chanting his name along with &#8220;USA! USA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still can\u2019t believe it,\u201d the American shared. \u201cI always claim that New York is the greatest sports city in the world; I say that this is the greatest stadium in the world. I only hope that my best friend and my sister in the stands don\u2019t have to go to work in 2 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shelton will face his compatriot Frances Tiafoe, who kept coming back until he had reached his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> US Open \u00bd final, defeating Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelton ended Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s title reign in the latest-finishing match in US Open history, pulling out a 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517600,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17246,16732],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[21257,17857],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Ben ended Carlos\u2019 reign and knocked him out of the tournament.","video":["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\/517599"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517602,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517599\/revisions\/517602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517599"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517599"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}