{"id":31227,"date":"2025-01-22T12:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/shelton-overpowers-sonego-to-reach-australian-open-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:21:48","slug":"shelton-overpowers-sonego-to-reach-australian-open-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/shelton-overpowers-sonego-to-reach-australian-open-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelton overpowers Sonego to reach Australian Open semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Atlanta native defeats Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (4)<\/li>\n<li>No 21 seed blasts broadcasters for being \u2018disrespectful\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Shelton, a 22-year-old from Atlanta, is through to his first Australian Open semi-final after defeating Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (4) on Wednesday in Melbourne. Shelton has competed in only one previous grand slam semi-final, when he lost to the eventual champion, Novak Djokovic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/sep\/08\/novak-djokovic-ben-shelton-us-open-final-tennis\">at the 2023 US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Shelton prevailed by playing a steadier ground game than his opponent. Sonego finished with a slight edge in winners, 63-54, but he committed far more unforced errors, 55-33.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/22\/ben-shelton-really-happy-after-making-first-australian-open-semi-final-tennis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta native defeats Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (4) No 21 seed blasts broadcasters for being \u2018disrespectful\u2019 Ben Shelton, a 22-year-old from Atlanta, is through to his first Australian Open semi-final after defeating Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (4) on Wednesday in Melbourne. Shelton has competed in only one previous grand slam &#8230; <a title=\"Shelton overpowers Sonego to reach Australian Open semi-finals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/shelton-overpowers-sonego-to-reach-australian-open-semi-finals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shelton overpowers Sonego to reach Australian Open semi-finals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}