Ben Shelton goes out in an outdoor match; Frances Tiafoe kicked out

New York – Ben Shelton The third set of our open matches of the third round, getting up from purification in court and then throwing his left arm into the air to encourage adrift after he won.

In just a few minutes later he began to feel pain that would eventually force him to stop playing during the match for the first time in his career.

Shelton, Sejao no. 6, stop losing the fourth set on Friday against Adrian Mannarino Due to the left injury of shoulders and no. 17 Frances Tiafoe He lost shortly after leaving only two American men who were left of 23 years who started the tournament.

Speak softly and without many specifics, Shelton said it could not specify what caused injury or what was. He never stopped 178 professional matches.

“I’ll usually play anything and just find a way,” he said. “And whether it’s a disease or injury, like I can stay there, I can stay there. I’ve never felt anything like that before.”

Shelton landed on his left hand after he found the ball into the corner in the Korna to win the third set. At the beginning of the fourth, open semifinalist, 2023. He started receiving and said in the box of his coach, “I did something on the shoulder. I don’t know what it is.”

He received treatment in the middle of a set, when the coach rubbed a little cream on the left shoulder and tried to shorten the points after constantly attacking the network. But after Mannarino won the set, Shelton visited the coach again, and Shelton called the match, leaving the court towel over his head and tears in his eyes.

Mannarino, 37-year-old from France, earned his first victory in 23 career matches against Top-10 players in Grand Slam tournaments.

“When he started having pain, he led in the match,” Mannarino said. “Honestly, he would probably win that match.”

Shelton was a difficult favorite in it after entering 14-2 records this summer on hard courts and winning the title in Toronto, where Mannarino redirected early on the tournament.

“I really played. I was in shape, a lot of confidence,” Shelton said. “Only so many things to be satisfied with the way I played, moving in court, competes.”

He was one of the best hopes to give the American first men’s champion, because Andy Roddick won opened in 2003. years. So is Tiafoe, who reached the semifinals in meadow rinsing in two of the previous three years. It was eliminated with 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7) loss of German qualification Jan-Lennard Struff.

Tiafoe was trying to become the first American man than the 1994. until 1999. years to reach the fourth round of the United States open six years.

“It will be difficult to swallow how I played today and that I was open from the US, for sure, this early,” Tiafoe said.

Just no. 4 Taylor Fritzlast year’s runner that was scheduled to play later Friday and 14 Tommy Paul remain among American people.

Shelton’s left service is one of the most powerful in tennis, and its 140 mph ACE matched the third most quickest of this open in the first set.

He is still ugly for some difficult after injury, but he grabbed several times on the shoulder after – or even in the middle – points.

Brian Shelton, his father and coach, told the 22-year years to hope, hoping to finish points quickly. Ben Shelton had 13 points of serving and volleyball in fourth set after only three in the first three sets, and he was online for missed volleyball when Mannarino broke him for 4-3 leads in fourth place.

Shelton fought four-set points in his next service game before Mannarino held to win the set. Mannarino, Ranked no. 77, he left the holiday court, because Shelton was sitting on his bench, and his father launched his kind to call him, which he did when he returned, when Mannarino returned.

“I’m 37 years old,” Mannarino said. “It’s the first time I get a game from the toilet.”