Ben Shelton

American 8 ATP rankingATP 3,580 points benshelton 23 years 193 cm Left handed

Playing next

ATP 500, Hard Washington 2026 27 Jul - 2 Aug Washington, D.C., United States In play, second round ATP 1000, Hard Montreal 2026 2 Aug - 13 Aug Montreal, Canada On the entry list ATP 1000, Hard Cincinnati 2026 13 Aug - 23 Aug Mason, United States On the entry list
Head to heads vs Jannik Sinner (10)vs Lorenzo Sonego (6)vs Flavio Cobolli (6)vs Taylor Fritz (5)vs Adrian Mannarino (5)vs Alexander Zverev (5)

Match log

2026

WashingtonHard, July
R32WMartin Damm6-4 4-6 6-4
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LOtto Virtanen4-6 6-3 7-6(8) 2-6 6-7(9)
HalleGrass, June
QFLTaylor Fritz7-6(5) 6-7(8) 6-7(3)
R16WEthan Quinn6-4 5-7 6-4
R32WLorenzo Sonego7-5 6-3
StuttgartWon the titleGrass, June
FWTaylor Fritz6-4 2-6 6-4Won the title
SFWJiri Lehecka6-7(4) 7-6(14) 7-6(6)
QFWSho Shimabukuro4-6 6-3 6-4
R16WMarcos Giron6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(5)
Roland GarrosClay, May
R64LRaphael Collignon4-6 5-7 4-6
R128WDaniel Merida Aguilar6-3 6-3 6-4
HamburgClay, May
R16LDaniel Altmaier6-4 6-7(4) 4-6
R32WMarcos Giron6-3 4-6 7-6(3)
RomeClay, May
R64LNikoloz Basilashvili4-6 7-6(5) 3-6
MadridClay, April
R64LDino Prizmic4-6 7-6(4) 6-7(5)
MunichWon the titleClay, April
FWFlavio Cobolli6-2 7-5Won the title
SFWAlex Molcan6-3 6-4
QFWJoao Fonseca6-3 3-6 6-3
R16WAlexander Blockx6-4 7-6(8)
R32WEmilio Nava7-6(4) 3-6 6-3
HoustonClay, March
QFLThiago Agustin Tirante7-6(5) 3-6 4-6
R16WZhizhen Zhang7-6(5) 7-6(3)
MiamiHard, March
R64LAlexander Shevchenko7-6(3) 6-7(3) 3-6
Indian WellsHard, March
R32LLearner Tien6-7(3) 6-4 3-6
R64WReilly Opelka6-7(3) 7-6(4) 6-3
DallasWon the titleHard, February
FWTaylor Fritz3-6 6-3 7-5Won the title
SFWDenis Shapovalov4-6 6-4 7-6(4)
QFWMiomir Kecmanovic5-7 6-3 6-4
R16WAdrian Mannarino7-6(2) 6-7(4) 6-3
R32WGabriel Diallo6-4 6-4
Australian OpenHard, January
QFLJannik Sinner3-6 4-6 4-6
R16WCasper Ruud3-6 6-4 6-3 6-4
R32WValentin Vacherot6-4 6-4 7-6(5)
R64WDane Sweeny6-3 6-2 6-2
R128WUgo Humbert6-3 7-6(2) 7-6(5)
AucklandHard, January
QFLSebastian Baez5-7 3-6
R16WFrancisco Comesana7-5 6-4

2025

Tour FinalsHard, November
RRLJannik Sinner3-6 6-7(3)
RRLAlexander Zverev3-6 6-7(6)
RRLFelix Auger Aliassime6-4 6-7(7) 5-7
Paris MastersHard, October
QFLJannik Sinner3-6 3-6
R16WAndrey Rublev7-6(6) 6-3
R32WFlavio Cobolli7-6(4) 6-3
BaselHard, October
R16LJaume Munar3-6 4-6
R32WKamil Majchrzak6-7(2) 6-3 7-6(7)
Shanghai MastersHard, October
R64LDavid Goffin2-6 4-6
Us OpenHard, August
R32LAdrian Mannarino6-3 3-6 6-4 4-6 RET
R64WPablo Carreno Busta6-4 6-2 6-4
R128WIgnacio Buse6-3 6-2 6-4
Cincinnati MastersHard, August
QFLAlexander Zverev2-6 2-6
R16WJiri Lehecka6-4 6-4
R32WRoberto Bautista Agut7-6(3) 6-3
R64WCamilo Ugo Carabelli6-3 3-1 RET

Ben Shelton

The serve came first. Ben Shelton, born in 2002, arrived as a left-hander who could push the radar past 240 km/h, with the legs to chase down whatever came back. He learned the trade in college, winning the 2022 NCAA singles title for the University of Florida. Then, in only his second US Open, he ran to the semi-finals as the last American man standing, a breakthrough that ended against Novak Djokovic but announced a very big ceiling.

He turned that promise into hardware. His first tour title came in Tokyo in 2023, the start of a run to 6 career titles, capped by a maiden Masters 1000 crown in Canada in 2025. A second major semi-final followed at the 2025 Australian Open, and later that year he reached a career-high world No. 5. Against Jannik Sinner and the young order, the serve keeps buying time to build the rest.

Tales

Tennis families

The family business: Cruz Hewitt debuts where his father won, and he is far from the only one

Twenty-two years. That is how long it has been since Lleyton Hewitt won the title in Washington, and this week his son came through qualifying into the main draw of the same tournament. Cruz Hewitt is 17, ranked outside the top 600, and plays Marcos Giron in the first round. It is his first ATP main draw, and it is a smaller novelty than it sounds. The tour is thick with players whose surname arrived before they did.

Feature
ATP rankings

ATP rankings: Van Assche, Halys and Hanfmann make the week's big moves

Thirty. That is how many places Luca Van Assche gained after winning the Estoril title, from No. 78 to a career-best No. 48 in the ATP rankings. He was one of two Frenchmen with a tour-level title this week: Quentin Halys won Kitzbuhel and rose 31 places to No. 52. Neither result stirred the top of the list, where Jannik Sinner stayed unmoved at No. 1.

Ranking tale