US Open Day 10 - Shelton shocks Alcaraz in latest finish ever
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Well, hello and welcome to the Tennis Podcast on day 10 of the US Open, a day full of epic matches, tears, drama, and mind-bending sport. It started at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning when Arena Sabalenka and Linda Noshkova embarked on a match that would end 7-6 in the deciding set and ended with the latest finish in the history of the US Open 333 AM when Ben Shelton finally beat Carlos Alcras 7-6 in the fifth and deciding set. Every single one of the four quarterfinals we had today went to a final set. Wish us luck trying to sum it all up. Matt Roberts is here. We're usually three, but unfortunately our host, Catherine Whitaker, has the lurgy at the moment, a nasty cold, and we pleaded with Catherine to go to bed.
Thankfully she agreed so that she can come back tomorrow full of beans. Or shall I say later today? Because Matt Roberts and myself, David Law, come to you just outside the Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre following the Carlos Alcraz against Ben Shelton. Welcome to tennis. If you haven't heard tennis before on the tennis podcast, before we get cracking, uh if you're new to us and particularly if you're listening to us via the New York Times app, you may not know that we are now in our 15th year covering this sport for the tennis podcast weekly, year-round, daily at all four of the Grand Slam tournaments. So do come back and listen to us throughout the year on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
And it's quite a baptism, Matt, if people are joining us for the first time, isn't it? Because here we are. What time is it? 4 08 a.m. 4 08 a.m. We're sitting outside the Arthur Ash Stadium, and we've just witnessed Ben Shelton winning what he's just told us in a in a little media huddle in the corridor was the best performance of his life, the biggest match win of his life, and it puts him into a semifinal against Francis Tiafa, which means America will be getting a men's American finalist. Um that has happened recently with Taylor Fritz, but it hasn't happened like this. And the situation that we find ourselves in following a match of that ilk with Carlos Alcraz losing what is it, only his second, fifth set in his entire life.
I'll be honest, David, today is a bit of a blur, so I will do my best on this podcast. But my god what a day of tennis. Just sixteen s sixteen sets on the Arthur Ash Stadium, all of the matches deciding sets, as you say, and then the match that everyone had been kind of waiting for, certainly all all day, but also all tournament really. We knew that Ben Shelton and Carlos Alquaz were on this collision course. They didn't start until five past. 11 PM. They finished well into the night. The Arthur Ash Stadium, that is the most people I've ever seen in a tennis stadium at that time. I mean it's a cavernous stadium. The top had d very much thinned out, but there must have still been 10,000 people in there, and it was
just extraordinary. You know, I I'm still reeling because we've covered Carlos Alcaraz's whole career, we've been to so many Carlos Alcaraz moments and he always wins. He always wins these sorts of moments and matches, whether it be a Wimbledon final against Novat Djokovic, the epic French Open final against Yannick Sinna when he saved the match points. The Australian Open semifinal of earlier this year where he was cramping for the second half of the match and somehow came through it. And there was a similar ish vibe to this one today, to that one, in terms of the way he powered down and had an energy lulla in this ma match. And then suddenly became Carlos Alcaraz again and you thought maybe somehow, some way he would get over the line.
Surely he will. He always does. But he didn't, and that is because of Ben Shelton, who was unbelievable tonight. That is the best I've seen Shelton play and he did it over such a long period of time. I was stunned by how good Shelton was because yes, Alcose had that lull, but he also brought a lot of His full force and Shelton stood up to it and that wasn't something that I was necessarily expecting from him.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:10–11:03
2
What made Ben Shelton’s upset over Carlos Alcaraz so historic?
11:03–24:16
3
Why did Alcaraz struggle in the deciding set against Shelton?
24:16–33:22
4
How did the crowd react to Shelton’s match‑point tiebreak finish?
33:22–45:38
5
What tactical moves gave Shelton the edge in the fifth‑set tiebreak?
45:38–59:17