{"id":78572,"date":"2026-09-11T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-frances-tiafoe-v-ben-shelton-live-buildup\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:54:48","slug":"us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-frances-tiafoe-v-ben-shelton-live-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-frances-tiafoe-v-ben-shelton-live-buildup\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open tennis 2026 men\u2019s semi-final: Frances Tiafoe v Ben Shelton \u2013 live buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Updates from the second men\u2019s semi-final in New York<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/sep\/11\/us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-alexander-zverev-v-karen-khachanov-live\">Zverev takes out Khachanov in straight sets to make final<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/11\/us-open-five-set-tennis-shelton-alcaraz-late-night-matches\">Andrew Lawrence: in praise of five-set tennis<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:bryan.graham@theguardian.com\">Mail Bryan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A strong US Open for the American juniors is heading into the final weekend<\/strong>, with four US players \u2013 two boys and two girls \u2013 through to championship matches on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen-year-old Marcel Latak of Darien, Illinois, has a chance at a rare double after reaching the boys\u2019 singles and doubles finals. He wil face Brazil\u2019s Luis Guto Miguel, the junior world No 1 and top seed, for the singles title before teaming with fellow American Tanishk Konduri, also 17, against France\u2019s Aaron Gabet and Spain\u2019s Valentin Gonzalez-Galino in the doubles final.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/sep\/11\/us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-frances-tiafoe-v-ben-shelton-live-buildup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the second men\u2019s semi-final in New York Zverev takes out Khachanov in straight sets to make final Andrew Lawrence: in praise of five-set tennis | Mail Bryan A strong US Open for the American juniors is heading into the final weekend, with four US players \u2013 two boys and two girls \u2013 through &#8230; <a title=\"US Open tennis 2026 men\u2019s semi-final: Frances Tiafoe v Ben Shelton \u2013 live buildup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-frances-tiafoe-v-ben-shelton-live-buildup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Open tennis 2026 men\u2019s semi-final: Frances Tiafoe v Ben Shelton \u2013 live buildup\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78572","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=78572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}