Armed with a booming serve as prodigious as his sense of entitlement, the 20-year-old American upstart is out to buck the odds against Novak Djokovic in the US Open semi-finals
A few months ago Ben Shelton appeared on a podcast called All on the Table, a brown bag session he held with Christopher Eubanks and Francis Tiafoe. For an hour, the three Americans chewed the fat about life on tour between big bites of steak. But the conversation doesn’t really get interesting until Eubanks and Tiafoe, the seasoned professionals, ask Shelton what his ultimate goal is now that he’s spent a year on the men’s tour.
“I wanna be that dude in the draw that there’s not one player who wants to see me,” Shelton said.
