Despite playing the most international of sports, Ben Shelton had never used his passport until leaving for Adelaide just before the New Year.
Now, overseas for the very first time, he finds himself in the last eight of the Australian Open with a chance to go even further.
The tousle-haired lefthander with a pump action serve will face compatriot Tommy Paul after beating another American outsider in JJ Wolf, outlasting him 6-7, 6-2, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 in three and three quarter hours.
Ben Shelton celebrates after winning a five-set thriller against fellow American J.J. Wolf
Shelton, 20, will now overtake his dad’s best ever world ranking and break into the top 50
Shelton, whose father Bryan reached the world’s top sixty in the Nineties, has been the breakout star of this…
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