{"id":882726,"date":"2026-09-07T01:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:40:12","slug":"us-open-2026-live-results-day-8-order-of-play-ben-shelton-vs-stefanos-tsitsipas-updates-williams-sisters-wont-be-fined-despite-skipping-media-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882726\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026 LIVE results, Day 8: Order of play; Ben Shelton vs Stefanos Tsitsipas updates; Williams sisters won\u2019t be fined despite skipping media duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelton is cruising towards victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas, which would set up a quarter-final showdown with Spanish superstar Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>However, that was news to Alcaraz as he chatted to US tennis legend Andy Roddick as part of an ESPN panel chat on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton is one of America\u2019s most exciting players, so naturally Roddick was keen to hear from Alcaraz what that match up might look like for him.<\/p>\n<p>But after framing a question to ask the Spaniard\u2019s thoughts on playing either Shelton or Tsitsipas in the next round, Alcaraz was initially stumped and clearly confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh really, or really?,\u201d Alcaraz asked, leaning over to look at the draw print out Roddick had on the desk in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my god, I thought I was playing (Daniil) Medvedev or Fo (Frances Tiafoe).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, you\u2019re welcome,\u201d replied Roddick as both started laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t see the draw, oh my god&#8230;\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton is cruising towards victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas, which would set up a quarter-final showdown with Spanish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-882726","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\/882726","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=882726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}