{"id":895284,"date":"2026-09-17T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895284\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:06:10","slug":"us-open-runner-up-ben-shelton-withdraws-from-laver-cup-and-is-replaced-by-brandon-nakashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895284\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open runner-up Ben Shelton withdraws from Laver Cup and is replaced by Brandon Nakashima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-open-ben-shelton-alexander-zverev-a5923ecc83e4c0e9f87158d3e87eaf3d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Open runner-up Ben Shelton<\/a> withdrew from the Laver Cup and will be replaced by 16th-ranked Brandon Nakashima on Team World, organizers announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No reason was given for Shelton\u2019s withdrawal but he&#8217;s slated to play Davis Cup for the United States in the Czech Republic starting on Friday \u2014 less than a week after losing to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-open-mens-final-shelton-zverev-58fc12d28293dd33806e4d07242681d1?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> in the U.S. Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton is up to a career-high No. 4 in the rankings after reaching his first Grand Slam final.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark Nakashima\u2019s Laver Cup debut. He joins Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz, Alexander Bublik, Learner Tien and Francisco Cerundolo on Team World, which has Andre Agassi as its captain.<\/p>\n<p>Yannick Noah\u2019s Team Europe features Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Flavio Cobolli, Rafael Jodar, Jakub Mensik and Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n<p>The Laver Cup, which is modeled after the Ryder Cup, is scheduled for the O2 arena in London Sept. 25-27.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.S. Open runner-up Ben Shelton withdrew from the Laver Cup and will be replaced by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,464420,1628,85,747,1807],"class_list":["post-895284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-shelton-laver-cup","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-u-s-open-tennis-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895284","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=895284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}