He is one of the players selected by the Swiss Roger Federer to be an ambassador for one of their brands, wearing a head-to-toe On uniform. As in the case of the Polish Iga Swiatek or the new Brazilian phenomenon João Fonseca. He is attracting attention because he is part of the great new breed of American tennis, which is characterized by its ferocity on the court and which does not mince words outside of it. Expresses in any situation.
that’s how it is Ben Sheltonat 22 years old is the youngest semi-finalist of the current Australian Open. At the age of 20, he did not let Novak Djokovic intimidate him in the US Open semifinals. He publicly, and without hesitation, responded to the Serb for imitating, in a bad way, his celebratory gesture of drawing with his fingers a phone that he held to his ear and then lowered tightly.
He continued to consider that Djokovic “intended to mislead me about this,” but he had already left the subject, including the victory celebration gesture, to concern one of his university classmates.
Shelton doesn’t shy away from any controversy. Not even the one currently in Melbourne. This time he aligned himself with Djokovic, who boycotted a court interview because a commentator on the event’s official Australian television addressed, live, a group of fans who called the ten-time Australian Open champion “overrated” and “done.” “Throw him out,” concluded what the journalist considered a joke, for which he had to apologize.
Although Shelton was abundant, after defeating the Italian Lorenzo Sonego and meet in the semi-finals with another transalpine, Jannik sinner, to the questions of the winners of the matches on the field, which are televised all over the world and heard live by the fans present.
“It’s disrespectful to the players! I’m not just talking about Djokovic being mocked, I don’t think it was an isolated case. I’ve seen it with other teammates, I’m a little shocked at how the interviewers treat the tennis players these weeks” he denounced Ben Shelton. Extensionists do a lot.
In his case, after beating Lorenzo Sonego, he was asked about the Australian John Fitzgeraldwho told Shelton that he would not be supported in the semifinals in any case, whether he played against the champion Jannik Sinner or the Australian Alex de Minaur.
Shelton said he wouldn’t mind getting booed one way or another and sarcastically stressed that “they can throw things at my head” if they want.
No, he didn’t like the question. “Maybe it’s true that no one is supporting me in the semifinals, but I don’t think a comment from someone I’ve never met is respectful to me.”
He even criticized the question following his win Gael Monfils. Only after the public was asked to give a standing ovation to his 38-year-old rival, who had exhausted previous comebacks. “They told me, ‘Hey, Monfils is old enough to be your father. Maybe he is.'”
Ask the Australian Open to control the issue. “There’s a lot of negativity. It’s something that I think needs to change.”
Source: La Verdad
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