{"id":346092,"date":"2026-09-14T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346092\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:26:21","slug":"trust-the-process-ben-shelton-will-be-back-after-us-open-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346092\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust the process: Ben Shelton will be back after US Open loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American men\u2019s Grand Slam drought is 92 straight, 24 years and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Shelton\u2019s run to the U.S. Open final showed he might be the best suited to end that malaise.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/13\/sports\/alexander-zverev-downs-ben-shelton-to-win-us-open-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-sided 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 loss to Alexander Zverev<\/a> showed how far he is from cracking into tennis\u2019 new Big Three, from having a viable Plan B against the sport\u2019s Big Three when he doesn\u2019t have his A game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m motivated. Disappointed with how [Sunday] went. Happy with how I fought throughout the two weeks, excited with the progress I\u2019ve made. But yeah, this one stings, 100 percent,\u201d said Shelton. \u201cTry to keep getting better and show up in Australia even stronger than I showed up here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American men\u2019s Grand Slam drought is 92 straight, 24 years and counting. Ben Shelton\u2019s run to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129291,9,24,55,54,56,319,428,15547,24822],"class_list":["post-346092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ben-shelton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-tennis","tag-us-open-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}