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Ben Shelton ist 23 Jahre alt und könnte der erste US-Amerikaner seit Andy Rodd seit Andy Roddick (2003) werden, der einen Grand-Slam-Titel im Herren-Einzel gewinnt. Er wäre zudem der erste schwarze US-Amerikaner seit Arthur Ashe (1972), der das Finale eines Grand-Slam-Turniers in New York erreicht.
Der US-amerikanische Tennisprofi Ben Shelton hat das zweite Halbfinale der US Open gewonnen und wird am Sonntag im Finale gegen den Deutschen Alexander Zverev um den Titel spielen. Er besiegte seinen Landsmann Frances Tiafoe in vier Sätzen mit 4:6, 6:3, 6:3 und 7:5 und sicherte sich damit seinen ersten Einzug in ein Grand-Slam-Finale. Zverev hatte zuvor das erste Halbfinale in drei Sätzen gegen Karen Chatschanow gewonnen.
Der 23-jährige Ben Shelton ist nun nur noch einen Sieg davon entfernt, als erster US-Amerikaner seit Andy Roddick, der 2003 in Flushing Meadows den Pokal in die Höhe reckte, einen Grand-Slam-Titel im Herren-Einzel zu gewinnen.
Shelton ist unter den Männern der erste Schwarze US-Amerikaner seit Arthur Ashe im Jahr 1972, der in New York das Finale erreicht. Bei einem der vier Grand-Slam-Turniere war das zuletzt 1996 MaliVai Washington in Wimbledon gelungen.
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Ben Shelton wird das US-Open-Finale gegen Alexander Zverev spielen.
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After a semi-final win against Karen Khachanow, Alexander Zverev is in the final of the US Open and will meet Ben Shelton there. The German could become the first since Boris Becker in 1989 to win the title in New York. Shelton is playing his first Grand Slam final and remembered the victims of September 11th in the interview.
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