{"id":54994,"date":"2025-08-02T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:56:09","slug":"ben-shelton-shares-what-hes-doing-during-matches-now-which-is-really-surprising-all-his-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54994\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton shares what he&#8217;s doing during matches now which is really &#8216;surprising&#8217; all his opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ben Shelton has made it to the fourth round of the Canadian Open following his victory over fellow American Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n<p>After conceding the first set, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/ben-shelton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shelton<\/a> fought his way back into the match and clinched the third-set tiebreak over Nakashima to advance in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p>The world number seven has been in impressive form recently, winning nine of his last eleven clashes and showing plenty of improvement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/ben-shelton-pinpoints-the-two-areas-of-his-game-he-has-really-been-trying-to-improve-this-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shelton said he has been working on his game<\/a> recently, and explained that part of his improvement has come in his serve, which was already one of the best on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> Tour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227374084-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Shelton celebrates at the Canadian Open.\" \/>Photo by Mert Alper Dervis\/Anadolu via Getty ImagesBen Shelton explains how his serve has improved recently<\/p>\n<p>Shelton served up a total of 19 aces in his win over Nakashima, and tallied a first serve winning percentage of 81%.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in his press conference after the match, he said: \u201cYeah, I\u2019ve been a little bit more loose on my serve.<\/p>\n<p>StatisticNumberAces19Double Faults8First Serve Percentage62%Win Percentage On First Serve81%Win Percentage On Second Serve59%Breaks Of Serve Conceded1Ben Shelton\u2019s serving statistics against Brandon Nakashima<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave myself some room to make some errors, air it out a little bit. I\u2019ve been really aggressive early with my serving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I surprised guys from the jump with my serve, the way that I\u2019m coming after their body, and I think it makes it difficult to get in a rhythm on return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227387995-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"TENNIS: AUG 01 National Bank Open\" \/>Photo by Mathew Tsang\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesBen Shelton says he struggled with his service games on grass<\/p>\n<p>Shelton continued: \u201cI think I struggled a little bit on the grass, especially with first-serve percentage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStruggling with making first serves, and backing up my second serve, because I was struggling on return points, so it put a lot of pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think the way that I\u2019ve been able to steal points off other guys\u2019 first serve and second serve, and kind of be able to put myself ahead and in a controlling position in a tiebreaker is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US star will face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Flavio-Cobolli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flavio Cobolli<\/a> in the next round at the Canadian Open, against whom he has a losing record.<\/p>\n<p>In their last clash, however, Shelton emerged victorious at the Mexican Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton has made it to the fourth round of the Canadian Open following his victory over fellow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,431,28389,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-54994","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-canadian-open","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}