{"id":32268,"date":"2025-07-29T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32268\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:58:10","slug":"jack-sock-hints-that-ben-shelton-has-a-new-weapon-which-could-be-pretty-scary-for-everyone-else-ahead-of-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32268\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Sock hints that Ben Shelton has a new weapon which could be &#8216;pretty scary&#8217; for everyone else ahead of the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Shelton is moving on up in the tennis world following his run to the last eight of Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/the-new-atp-top-10-has-been-updated-after-the-washington-open-as-ben-shelton-is-rewarded-with-career-high-spot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shelton is up to seventh on the ATP Tour<\/a> and he will go into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> brimming with confidence that he can get over the line and win a Grand Slam title. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/ben-shelton-says-he-really-struggled-with-two-things-during-his-defeat-to-alejandro-davidovich-fokina-in-washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shelton struggled against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> at last week\u2019s Washington Open, but he now moves to the Montreal Open looking to win some more matches. <\/p>\n<p>At 22-years-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/ben-shelton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shelton<\/a> has time on his side, and during 2025, he\u2019s made great strides towards proving to people that he can eventually win the game\u2019s big titles. <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the next tournament that gets going for Shelton tomorrow, a former American player has been praising the youngster for the improvements he\u2019s shown on tour this year. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2216666362-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Shelton of the United States attends a press conference ahead of the 2025 French Open at Roland Garros.\" class=\"wp-image-115717\" \/>Photo by Daniel Kopatsch\/Getty ImagesJack Sock hints at new weapon Ben Shelton now brings to the court<\/p>\n<p>Sock has been speaking about Shelton on the latest episode of the Nothing Major podcast. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been hailing the youngster for how he\u2019s managed to kick on this year, and he believes it\u2019s down to one aspect of his game that is now extremely strong. <\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cObviously, everyone knows that his serve and his forehand are all strengths of his. If that backhand is becoming a weapon, which it looks like it is, at times he can literally use it as a weapon and not have to run around it as much. If that is now becoming a strength, it is just going to make everything easier. It is going to make matches less physical for him if he is able to use that backhand side and dictate points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he starts doing that, I think it is going to be pretty scary to be honest, especially on these courts, when you get on some faster, higher bouncing hard courts and he\u2019s hitting the ball like that, I think he is going to be a very tough out every week this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>What John Isner has said about Ben Shelton<\/p>\n<p>Isner is also a pundit on the podcast and he essentially echoed what Sock said about Shelton. <\/p>\n<p>He also admitted that he\u2019s enjoyed watching the American climb the rankings and start to establish himself as a top 10 player in the world of tennis. <\/p>\n<p>Isner said: \u201cI am really impressed with Ben. I know he didn\u2019t play his best in the semis, but I think his trajectory is going in completely the right direction. He is obviously top 10, but he is inching closer in my mind to the ultimate goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shelton is now set to face Adrian Mannarino in round one at the Montreal Open and he will be hoping to go all the way ahead of the US Open. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton is moving on up in the tennis world following his run to the last eight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,19369,49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-32268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ben-shelton","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}