{"id":841435,"date":"2026-09-09T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841435\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:16:09","slug":"u-s-open-2026-live-updates-latest-as-ben-shelton-leads-carlos-alcaraz-in-epic-quarterfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841435\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open 2026 live updates: Latest as Ben Shelton leads Carlos Alcaraz in epic quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shelton 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 0-0* Alcaraz<\/p>\n<p>Signs of life as Alcaraz makes it 15-15 and the crowd is sensing it too.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton is keeping his cool and buries his forehand pass at the net \u2014 only to then see an Alcaraz backhand fire past him for 30-30.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz hasn\u2019t been here since the first set. He follows it up with another wonderful point played all around the net. These two at the net are a joy, and Alcaraz\u2019s legs are officially not done yet!<\/p>\n<p>The level is super high now as Shelton hits the lines and Alcaraz nets after a 19-shot rally to save the break point.<\/p>\n<p>Same again as Shelton earns his first set point. Now the Spaniard\u2019s legs look tired again.<\/p>\n<p>And there it is! Alcaraz blocks but his backhand is long, and Shelton is a set away.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Incredible tennis once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shelton 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-3, 0-0* Alcaraz Signs of life as Alcaraz makes it 15-15 and the crowd is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-841435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841435","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=841435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}