{"id":46846,"date":"2025-07-03T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46846"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:23:11","slug":"ben-shelton-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46846","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benny (Atlanta, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Shelton\">2002<\/a>-; 2022, $7,364,929 on 2025.7.03) is my favorite player: flashy, athletic, fun, &#8230; he also has a pair of likeable parents.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46850\">Friday, 7.04<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the start, Ben reminds me of cartoon character in the tv show Rugrat (never watched it). He&#8217;s really fun to watch, a rascal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3379-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3379-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3373-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-46847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3371-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s playing his second round match at Wimbledon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_Wimbledon_Championships\">2025<\/a> today, against the Aussie player Rinky Hijikata (Sydney, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rinky_Hijikata\">2001<\/a>-; 2021, $2,861,238). Not sure why didn&#8217;t he close out the match at 4-5, 0-40 in the third. It&#8217;s suspended, till tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>American players have lost today to non American:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tommy Paul lost to Ofner<\/li>\n<li>Giron lost to J. Mensik<\/li>\n<li>Sophia Kenin lost to J. Bouzas<\/li>\n<li>Caty McNally lost to Iga<\/li>\n<li>Caroline Dolehide lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43987\">Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46364\">Katie Volynets<\/a> lost to E. Cocciartetto<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Happy to see<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Emma Navarro def Veronika Kudermetova (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veronika_Kudermetova\">1997<\/a>-)<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Collins def Veronika Erjavec<\/li>\n<li>Hailey Baptiste def Victoria Mboko<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; Will Ben make the 4th?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Two Americans played, Brandon Nakashima (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandon_Nakashima\">2001<\/a>-) def Reilly Opelka (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reilly_Opelka\">1997<\/a>-).<\/p>\n<p>Ben also reminded me of Donald Young (Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Young_(tennis)\">1989<\/a>-; 2004, $4,694,661) whose career didn&#8217;t really pan out. Somehow,\u00a0Taylor Townsend (Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taylor_Townsend\">1996<\/a>-; 2012, \u00a0$6,171,091) did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny (Atlanta, 2002-; 2022, $7,364,929 on 2025.7.03) is my favorite player: flashy, athletic, fun, &#8230; he also has a pair of likeable parents. the first Friday, 7.04 From the start, Ben reminds me of cartoon character in the tv show Rugrat (never watched it). He&#8217;s really fun to watch, a rascal. He&#8217;s playing his second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}