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<\/p>\nThe US Open sees Alexander Zverev and Ben Shelton battle it out in New York tonight<\/p>\n
Ben Shelton shakes hands with Alexander Zverev (Image: Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Alexander Zverev and Ben Shelton meet in the final of the US Open at Flushing Meadows tonight.<\/p>\n
Top seed German Zverev will be favourite to secure the Grand Slam title but with home support likely to be in Sheldon’s corner, there could be an upset this evening.<\/p>\n
“For me, this whole tournament has been uncharted territory,” said Shelton, who will likely be roared on by a 24,000-strong crowd in New York.<\/p>\n
“I’m in positions I’ve never been in before. I’ve beaten guys I’ve never beaten before.”<\/p>\n
Shelton has lost to Zverev in their last five meetings and he has never beaten the German.<\/p>\n
Zverev, the top seed, reached the final by beating Karen Khachanov 6-3, 7-6, 7-6 in the last four. Shelton beat Frances Tiafoe in four sets in the other semi.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s final is set to offer a record-breaking prize fund, with the world\u2019s best tennis players competing for a share of $108 million (\u00a380m).<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles champions will each receive $5.5million (\u00a34.1million), making it the biggest winner\u2019s prize in tennis history.<\/p>\n
Last night, Elena Rybakina was crowned US Open winner in the women’s competition, beating Aryna Sabalenka, the No 1 seed and current champion.<\/p>\n
The US Open will continue to offer equal prize money in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles competitions, with identical payments available to players at every stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n
The match is set to get under way at 7pm UK time. Here is the prize money pot broken down for the singles competitions.<\/p>\n
US Open singles prize money<\/p>\n
First round: $140,000<\/p>\n
Second round: $190,000<\/p>\n
Third round: $290,000<\/p>\n
Round of 16: $480,000<\/p>\n
Quarter-finals: $780,000<\/p>\n
Semi-finals: $1,450,000<\/p>\n
Runner-up: $2,800,000<\/p>\n
Winner: $5,500,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Open sees Alexander Zverev and Ben Shelton battle it out in New York tonight Ben Shelton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}