Ben Shelton

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

Ben Shelton turned professional after the 2022 Cincinnati Masters 1000, where he reached the third round. In 2023 he reached the Australian Open quarter-finals and then the US Open semi-finals, where only Novak Djokovic stopped him, and won his first title in Tokyo. In April 2024 he became the youngest American No. 1 since Andy Roddick in March 2004. His seven titles include two Masters 1000s in Canada, Toronto in 2025 and Montreal in 2026, where he defended his crown without dropping a set, three ATP 500s (Tokyo 2023, Dallas and Munich 2026) and two ATP 250s (Houston 2024 and Stuttgart 2026, his first on grass), making him one of the few players of his generation to have won on all three surfaces. At the 2026 US Open he beat Tallon Griekspoor, Hubert Hurkacz, Denis Shapovalov and Stefanos Tsitsipas (6-2, 6-3, 6-4, without facing a break point), then second seed Carlos Alcaraz 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(10-7) in 4 hours 28 minutes: his first win over a top-3 player after seventeen defeats, in the latest-finishing match in the tournament's history, at 3.33 am. He beat Frances Tiafoe in the semi-finals with twenty aces, becoming the youngest American finalist in New York since Andy Roddick in 2003 and the youngest player from outside Europe to reach a Grand Slam final since Juan Martín del Potro in 2009, before facing Alexander Zverev in the final.