{"id":841505,"date":"2026-09-09T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841505\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:46:09","slug":"tennis-atp-us-open-2026-shelton-downs-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841505\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, ATP \u2013 US Open 2026: Shelton downs Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither man was broken in the fifth set. Shelton, who had lost all three of his previous meetings with him, now plays Frances Tiafoe in an all-American semifinal, the third at a Grand Slam this century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American won against Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (6-2, 6-3, 6-4), Canadian Denis Shapovalov (7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4), Pole Hubert Hurkacz (6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 7-5) and Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor (1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2) ahead of his victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the tournament, Alcaraz, ranked No 3, beat American Tommy Paul, the No 20 seed (6-4, 6-3, 6-4), Chinese Yibing Wu (6-3, 6-4, 6-1), Portuguese Jaime Faria (4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2) and Russian Roman Safiullin (6-4, 6-4, 6-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neither man was broken in the fifth set. Shelton, who had lost all three of his previous meetings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-841505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841505","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=841505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}