American Ben Shelton, the No. 10 seed, reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the primary time Monday with a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 7-5 victory over Lorenzo Sonego — one which additionally secured him the household bragging rights.
Thirty-one years in the past Shelton’s father and present coach, Bryan, misplaced 10-8 within the fifth set to Christian Bergstrom within the spherical of 16 at Wimbledon, in what proved the excessive level of his Grand Slam profession.
The youthful Shelton, 22, turned the fourth Black American man to achieve the quarterfinals on the All England Membership for the reason that Open period started, becoming a member of Arthur Ashe (3 times), MaliVai Washington (1996) and Christopher Eubanks (2023).
Ashe (UCLA), Washington (Michigan) and Eubanks (Georgia Tech) all performed school tennis, as did Shelton who was an NCAA singles champion at Florida.
Shelton joins Taylor Fritz within the quarterfinals, extending a run that has seen two American males attain the final eight in 5 consecutive Slams. That is the longest streak because it occurred in 24 straight majors from the 1991 French Open to the 1997 Australian Open.
Shelton, who beforehand reached the semifinals in Melbourne and Flushing Meadows, dropped his first set of the event, however attacked the web extra in a dominant second set earlier than racing by means of a third-set tiebreak after which breaking within the closing sport to safe the win.
Shelton and Sonego have been assembly for the third time this yr at a serious, with Shelton successful their earlier contests on the Australian Open and French Open. This was the primary time since 1984 that two males met in every of the primary three majors of a season — that yr, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors performed on the French, Wimbledon and US Open, with McEnroe successful all three conferences (the Australian Open at the moment was held in December).
ESPN Analysis and Reuters contributed to this report.