{"id":899346,"date":"2026-09-17T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899346\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:56:11","slug":"us-open-runner-up-ben-shelton-withdraws-from-laver-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899346\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open runner-up Ben Shelton withdraws from Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014\u00a0U.S. Open runner-up Ben Shelton\u00a0withdrew 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\u00a0Alexander Zverev\u00a0in 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014\u00a0U.S. Open runner-up Ben Shelton\u00a0withdrew from the Laver Cup and will be replaced by 16th-ranked Brandon Nakashima&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-899346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899346","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=899346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}