by The seeded n ° 10 Ben Shelton became the second American player to qualify for the quarterfinals of Wimbledon 2025, beating Lorenzo Sonego in four sets 3-6, 6-1, 7-6, 7-5. Shelton has reached the quarterfinals of the tournament for the first time in his career.
With this, Shelton’s sister, Emma, will be able to continue her stay in England until at least Wednesday while taking a break in her work in Morgan Stanley. Emma was to go back to work in the United States on Monday. But she obtained the rest of the week after Ben publicly asked that his “Lucky Charm” remains with him after his third round victory against Márton Fucsovics on Saturday.
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Shelton will face Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals. Seed No. 1 lost the first two sets against n ° 19 Gregor Dimitrov, but the Bulgarian had to retire during the third set due to a pectoral muscle lesion.
Monday’s match was the third time that Shelton beat Sonego in a Grand Chelem tournament, previously leaving the Australian Open and the French Open.
Sonego has frustrated Shelton early by manipulating his service and preventing him from obtaining aces. Most importantly, the Italian has kept his opponent to guess throughout the first set, mixing a variety of shots to keep Shelton out of pace. Sonego seemed to be using everything in his arsenal – shots on the net, slices on the line and crossed lobs – to move Shelton.
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In addition, Sonego controlled the game with its service, which apparently forced Shelton to take longer to take place before receiving. At one point, the referee warned him of this tactic. However, Shelton argued that Sonego was taking 25 seconds or more to serve – which was a problem in the match of Sunday’s fourth round between Cameron Norrie and Nicolás Jarry.
“No matter what it will never start before it is 3, 2, 1,” could be heard Shelton telling the referee Alison Hughes while the players changed camp, according to the Daily Express.
Being shaking and seems to lose your goal has made Shelton lose the first set in a fairly decisive way, 6-3.
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This changed in the second set, although Sonego has always had an answer to the service of Shelton. The set turned when Shelton broke the service and won the fourth match on Sonego’s double fault. Whether intentional or not, Sonego continued to try to discourage Shelton’s pace with longer service times and bathroom breaks.
At this stage, Shelton channeled the frustration he could have felt in his game and quickly won the second set, 6-1.
The two players went back and forth in the third set, neither of an advantage over their service. Sonego remained hard behind the baseline while extending for a return, which allowed Shelton to mount 4-3. But a similar game occurred on the side of Shelton on the next point and Sonego equalized it.
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The third set went to an equality break when Shelton held the service and turned a forehand on the whole line when he made Sonego move in the opposite direction. He finally mastered Sonego a few times with his service and won the link set set, extending to reach a return to back for the point.
However, Sonego did not go down quietly, fighting in the fourth set by handling Shelton’s service again and constantly returning it. The foot has returned as a problem for Shelton when he slipped a few times. However, he was able to recover and earn points that Sonego seemed to have in hand.
SONEGO maintained its service to attach the set to 5-5 and it seemed that another equality break was imminent. But Shelton finally broke it when Sonego could not win a straight return inside the line. This was followed by two blistering cross-terrain yields that Sonego could not manage, and Shelton was on the quarter-finals of Wimbledon.
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Shelton was able to benefit more from the victory during his interview with Annabel Croft of the BBC. He was asked to compare tennis in sport, football and his most popular past in America as a “quarter-arre”.
“I grew up playing in the quarter-Arrière-or” Quarter-backer “, anyway”, pulling a big laugh of the crowd. “Probably the only thing that is a direct correlation with tennis is the service. This is the kind of only thing I took from football at the tennis court. “
Shelton then compared a football team to the team supporting him – including his sister and girlfriend, NWSL and the USWNT star, Trinity Rodman. Everyone in this entourage will have their visit to Wimbledon extended for at least one more match against player world No. 1.
Sinner has a 5-1 file against Shelton, the fighter more recently at the Australian Open in the semi-finals. The Italian also prevailed in the Wimbledon tournament last year in the round of 16. The two victories were in two sets.
