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<\/p>\n Tournament News
\n Shelton withdraws from Acapulco<\/p>\n
ATP 500 main draw begins Monday<\/p>\n
February 20, 2026<\/p>\n
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Sam Hodde\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ben Shelton owns a 10-2 record this season.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Ben Shelton<\/a> has withdrawn from the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC<\/a> to focus on recovery, the tournament announced Friday.<\/p>\n The lefty won his first title of the season last week in Dallas, where he defeated fellow American Taylor Fritz<\/a> in the ATP 500 final. According to the Acapulco tournament\u2019s announcement, Shelton experienced discomfort in his quadriceps, leading to his decision to withdraw from the Mexican ATP 500 event.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old is off to a quick start in 2026, having made the quarter-finals in Auckland, the quarter-finals at the Australian Open<\/a> and lifted the trophy in Dallas. He is 10-2 this season, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n The No. 9 player in the PIF ATP Rankings has previously competed in Acapulco three times, with his best result coming in 2024, when he advanced to the quarter-finals before losing to Casper Ruud<\/a> in three sets.<\/p>\n The Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC<\/a> main draw begins Monday. Learn all you need to know about the Acapulco tournament, including information on the draw, schedule, history and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tournament News Shelton withdraws from Acapulco ATP 500 main draw begins Monday February 20, 2026 Sam Hodde\/Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-494059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}