American Shelton reaches 1st Wimbledon quarter

American Ben Shelton, the No. 10 seed, reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the archetypal clip Monday with a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 7-5 triumph implicit Lorenzo Sonego -- 1 that besides secured him the household bragging rights.

Thirty-one years ago, Shelton's begetter and existent coach, Bryan, mislaid 10-8 successful the 5th acceptable to Christian Bergstrom successful the circular of 16 astatine Wimbledon successful what proved the precocious constituent of his Grand Slam career.

The younger Shelton became the 4th Black American antheral to scope the quarterfinals astatine the All England Club since the Open epoch began, joining Arthur Ashe (three times), MaliVai Washington (1996) and Christopher Eubanks (2023).

Ashe (UCLA), Washington (Michigan) and Eubanks (Georgia Tech) each played assemblage tennis, arsenic did Shelton, who was an NCAA singles champion astatine Florida.

At 22, Shelton is the youngest American antheral to scope the Wimbledon quarters since Andy Roddick did truthful astatine 21 successful 2004.

Shelton joins No. 5 Taylor Fritz successful the quarterfinals, extending a tally that has seen 2 American men scope the past 8 successful 5 consecutive Slams. That's the longest streak since it happened successful 24 consecutive majors from the 1991 French Open to the 1997 Australian Open.

Shelton, who antecedently reached the semifinals successful Melbourne and Flushing Meadows, began Monday's lucifer by dropping his archetypal acceptable of the tournament, but attacked the nett much successful a ascendant 2nd acceptable earlier racing done a third-set tiebreak and past breaking successful the last crippled to unafraid the win.

Shelton and Sonego were gathering for the 3rd clip this twelvemonth astatine a major, with Shelton winning their erstwhile contests astatine the Australian Open and French Open. This was the archetypal clip since 1984 that 2 men met successful each of the archetypal 3 majors of a play -- that year, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors played astatine the French, Wimbledon and US Open, with McEnroe winning each 3 meetings (the Australian Open astatine that clip was held successful December).

ESPN Research and Reuters contributed to this report.