{"id":849757,"date":"2026-09-16T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:27:25","slug":"alexander-zverev-gives-trinity-rodman-shoutout-after-ben-shelton-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849757\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev Gives Trinity Rodman Shoutout\u00a0After Ben Shelton Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev\u00a0may have served up some drama.<\/p>\n<p>After the German tennis pro gave his rival\u00a0Ben Shelton\u2019s girlfriend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1405476\/2024-olympics-get-to-know-soccer-star-trinity-rodman-daughter-of-dennis-rodman-and-michelle-moyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Rodman<\/a>\u00a0a shoutout during his winner\u2019s speech\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/us_open\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> Men&#8217;s Championship\u00a0Sept. 13, fans had mixed feelings about the acknowledgment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrinity, I thought you had a game today, no?\u201d Zverev said following his four-set victory over Shelton. \u201cWell done to you as well. You\u2019re the lucky charm. Not today, but usually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Rodman,\u00a0who plays for the Washington Spirit in the National Woman\u2019s Soccer League,\u00a0seemed to be a good sport about the jab.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a024-year-old could be seen laughing\u00a0in response to Zverev\u2019s comments in a video shared to ESPN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@espn\/video\/7685149104120384798?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-99iAHOTk1ID\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0account before nodding her head to agree that she wasn\u2019t feeling particularly lucky that day. After all, her Washington Spirits also lost 3-0 to the Boston Legacy FC hours earlier.\u00a0(And yes, she traveled all the way from D.C. to New York City after her game to catch the end of Shelton\u2019s match.)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev\u00a0may have served up some drama. After the German tennis pro gave his rival\u00a0Ben Shelton\u2019s girlfriend\u00a0Trinity Rodman\u00a0a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-849757","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\/849757","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=849757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}