Tommy Paul

Tommy Paul is through to his maiden Australian Open semi-final after ending rising star Ben Sheltons incredible run in Melbourne on Wednesday.

"This is my first time on this court, my first time in the quarter-finals of a slam," said Paul. The big-hitting left-hander was certainly not over-awed playing on Rod Laver Arena for the first time but Paul was the steadier of the two and ultimately that was the difference. The run of 20-year-old Shelton, in just his second grand slam and on his first trip outside the USA, has been one of the stories of the tournament.

Tommy Paul beat fellow American Ben Shelton in a hard-fought match at the Australian Open to reach the first grand slam semifinal of his career.

Shelton also fired down 24 aces during the match, the fastest a booming 220 km/h, and 42 winners. The 20-year-old currently boasts a career-high ranking – world No. [Novak Djokovic](http://cnn.com/2023/01/23/tennis/novak-djokovic-alex-de-minaur-australian-open-spt-intl/index.html) or world No. “It is also Ben Shelton’s first time leaving the States, so I think he’s had a pretty good tournament as well. [Ben Shelton](http://cnn.com/2023/01/24/tennis/ben-shelton-profile-australian-open-spt-intl/index.html) in a hard-fought match at the [Australian Open](http://cnn.com/2023/01/24/tennis/jessica-pegula-victoria-azarenka-australian-open-spt-intl/index.html) to reach the first grand slam semifinal of his career. The big-hitting lefty was playing in only the second grand slam of his career – the first coming at the US Open at the end of 2022 – and before traveling to New Zealand and Australia in preparation for the first grand slam of the year had never even been outside of the US.

So the loud shouts of support heard most often at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday under the sun that carried the temperature to 87 degrees Fahrenheit were for one ...

The other men's semifinal Friday is [Stefanos Tsitsipas](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2869) against [Karen Khachanov](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2367). Shelton broke again to steal that set when Paul sailed a backhand long. Already up two sets, Paul broke to lead 4-3 in the third, then was serving at 30-love. Shelton noticed the exchange and kicked his serve wide, leaving Paul out of position and with no chance at reaching the ace. They shared a light moment when Paul's coach, Brad Stine, told him to look for a serve down the "T'' on the ad side of the court. Since turning professional, he has claimed one tour-level trophy, at Stockholm in 2021, and, until this week, had made it as far as the fourth round at just one Grand Slam tournament -- at Wimbledon a year ago. Roddick was also the last man from the U.S. As a bonus, Paul's mother was in the Rod Laver Arena stands for the biggest victory of his career. to win a Grand Slam singles championship, at the US Open 20 years ago. But he went through a bit of a lapse. [Novak Djokovic](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=296) or [Andrey Rublev](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2642). Oi, Oi, Oi!'' or "Go, Gators!''

Australian Open 2023 Results: Tommy Paul outclassed Ben Shelton 7-6(6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in an all-American clash at the Australian Open on Wednesday to reach ...

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Having never made it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam, the 25 year-old from North Carolina is into the last four and was left awaiting the winner of ...

He ended up winning it 8-6 after being 5-4 down and facing two set points with the younger player serving. Tommy Paul had never made it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam until this Australian run [ never made it past the fourth round of a Grand Slam before](/sport/tennis/article-11666509/Tommy-Paul-reaches-Australian-Open-quarter-finals-time-career.html), the 25 year-old from [North Carolina](/news/north-carolina/index.html) is into the last four and was left awaiting the winner of Novak Djokovic against Andrey Rublev when he stopped Shelton in the quarter finals.

Tommy Paul beat Ben Shelton in an all-American matchup in the Australian Open quarterfinals, advancing to play Novak Djokovic.

They shared a light moment when Paul’s coach, Brad Stine, told him to look for a serve down the “T” on the Ad side of the court. Shelton noticed the exchange and kicked his serve wide, leaving Paul out of position and with no chance at reaching the ace. “I’ve been flying under the radar a little bit.” “Extremely solid from the baseline,” Shelton said. … They kind of treated me like one of their own,” he observed — Paul was not drawing the same amount adoration. As a bonus, Paul’s mother was in the crowd for the biggest victory of his career. Now Paul is the first man from his country to make it to the final four at Melbourne Park since Andy Roddick in 2009. Since turning professional, he has claimed one tour-level trophy, at Stockholm in 2021, and, until this week, had made it as far as the fourth round at just one Grand Slam tournament — at Wimbledon a year ago. Roddick was also the last man from the U.S. “She deserves to be here and deserves to see me win big matches.” … Mine has been, like, the slowest,” the 35th-ranked Paul said, mentioning a group of Americans he grew up with: Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Reilly Opelka. Oi, Oi, Oi!” or “Go, Gators!”

Tommy Paul reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and ended the surprising run of Ben Shelton by winning their all-American matchup at the Australian Open ...

[Elena Rybakina](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3126) and [Aryna Sabalenka](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=3038) vs. [Stefanos Tsitsipas](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2869) against [Karen Khachanov](http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2367). [Magda Linette](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=1649). [Novak Djokovic](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=296), who overwhelmed No. 5 seed [Andrey Rublev](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=2642) 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. Shelton broke twice late in the third to steal that set and yelled, "Yeah!" ET) will be [Victoria Azarenka](https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=421) vs. They shared a light moment when Paul's coach, Brad Stine, told him to look for a serve down the "T" on the ad side of the court. "Extremely solid from the baseline," Shelton said. "I've been flying under the radar a little bit." As a bonus, Paul's mother was in the crowd for the biggest victory of his career. Paul's story is a pretty good one, too, and it is the one that will keep going at Melbourne Park.

« C'est votre première demi-finale de Grand Chelem, vous serez classé dans le Top 20 à l'issue du tournoi, comment vous sentez-vous ? Je suis super heureux ! Ce ...

Mais en réalité, je ne me souviens pas avoir regardé le match, je me souviens juste que Roddick a gagné l'US Open ! Depuis que je suis petit, j'entends que le tennis américain doit s'améliorer, qu'on a besoin d'Américains... Je suis heureux.

L'Américain Tommy Paul, 35e mondial, s'est qualifié pour sa première demi-finale de Grand Chelem en battant son compatriote Ben Shelton (89e) 7-6 (8/6), ...

Quand il a réussi une nouvelle fois le break dans le troisième set, la partie a semblé joué. Paul est le premier Américain à se hisser dans le dernier carré de l'Open d'Australie depuis Andy Roddick en 2009. A 25 ans, il n'avait encore jamais dépassé les 8es de finale d'un Majeur (stade atteint à Wimbledon 2022).

Tommy Paul, 35e mondial, s'est qualifié pour sa première demi-finale de Grand Chelem. L'Américain a battu son compatriote Ben Shelton (89e) 7-6 (8/6) 6-3 ...

Heureusement pour lui, il a su parfaitement se ressaisir au 4e set, signant d'entrée un break qui allait s'avérer décisif. Agé de 25 ans, Tommy Paul n'avait encore jamais dépassé les 8es de finale d'un Majeur (Wimbledon 2022). Tommy Paul, 35e mondial, s'est qualifié pour sa première demi-finale de Grand Chelem.

Paul, vainqueur logique de ce match, va disputer vendredi prochain sa première demi-finale en Grand Chelem. Ce sera contre Novak Djokovic ou Andrey Rublev.

C'est sur ce point joué sur le service de Shelton que tout a basculé. Il a conditionné le sort de ce match sur le plan mental. Mais une erreur qui a cassé les jambes et la tête du prodige US. Le dernier set a été une copie exacte du troisième (au moins pour les trois quarts) et du deuxième où Paul a été le maître des débats. Le gain de ce premier set a été très important. Il lui a fallu quatre sets, et 3h06 de jeu sur la Rod Laver Arena à Melbourne, pour se défaire du brillant gaucher (7-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4).

Scène amusante : sur une balle de break à 3-1 dans le troisième set, le 35e joueur mondial à l'ATP se retourne vers son coach et lui demande dans quelle zone va ...

Manque de chance, l'Américain décide de servir extérieur et laisse Paul sur le carreau. Sûr de lui, son coach lui indique que Shelton va servir sur la zone du T à l'intérieur. Scène amusante : sur une balle de break à 3-1 dans le troisième set, le 35e joueur mondial à l'ATP se retourne vers son coach et lui demande dans quelle zone va servir Ben Shelton.

Of the new generation of American tennis players, Tommy Paul, is coming of age. The 25-year-old has reached his first Australian Open semi-final, ...

The 25-year-old has reached his first - Tennis.

Paul, the first American man to reach an Australian Open singles semifinal since Andy Roddick in 2009, must now face Novak Djokovic.

He is an all-surface threat who grew up playing on green clay at his family’s club in North Carolina and won the French Open boys’ title on red clay in 2015, beating Fritz in the final. She is an audiologist and had only a carry-on bag after scrambling to make the trip on short notice after Paul beat Roberto Bautista Agut in the fourth round. Now, he has made his deepest Grand Slam run on a hardcourt. Last year, he reached the fourth round at Wimbledon on grass. Open and had chances in the semis, and who knows what would have happened if he had won that match? He already has defeated top-drawer opponents: beating Rafael Nadal and the world No. “And he was like, ‘Unreal!’” His mother Jill MacMillan, a former college player at East Carolina University who was his first coach, arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday morning after flying from Newark to Los Angeles to Melbourne in economy class in her scrubs. “You see Fritz win a Masters 1000, and I think all of us we’re all happy for him, but we’re all like, ‘OK, he did it. I’m going to make him jump in the Yarra if we win this thing. “And then ‘Foe makes semifinals of the U.S. “I think it applies a lot,” Paul said.

Tommy Paul is in the middle of a deep run in the 2023 Australian Open as an unseeded player. Late Tuesday night, he defeated fellow American Ben Shelton 7-6 ...

He'll get a shot to make the final now. He came into Melbourne having made it to the fourth round of last year's Wimbledon and the third round of the U.S. 29 Sebastian Korda all reached the final eight, becoming the most American men to reach quarterfinals at a Grand Slam since Andre Agassi, Robby Ginepri and James Blake in the 2005 U.S. 35 in the world, but reached a career-high No. Late Tuesday night, he defeated fellow American Ben Shelton 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the quarterfinals to become just the fourth American man to make a Grand Slam semifinal since 2017. This is the first major semifinal of his career, but he has shown multiple times that he shouldn't be overlooked -- even in this very tournament.

Tommy Paul of the U.S. celebrates after defeating compatriot Ben Shelton in their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne ...

That same year he made the junior finals at the US Open before losing to Fritz. Roddick is also the last American man to win a Grand Slam singles championship when he won the US Open 20 years ago. He won just 47% of the points on that second serve, which opened up a door for Paul to earn the win. He seemed content to simply dump returns back in when facing Shelton’s big serve and then hope to get the better of their longer rallies. At 20 years old, he was less than a year removed from winning an NCAA singles title for the University of Florida. Shelton had become something of a celebrity in Melbourne after his deep run at the tournament, and it’s not hard to see why.

Aryna Sabalenka and Magda Linette also advanced to the semifinals.

Over the course of a crackling, 3:06 Australian Open quarterfinal, Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton took the world on a magical mystery tennis tour, a trek across ...

Present-minded as the players must be, surely they too can’t help but be excited about what’s ahead. Now, immediately, another American man is in the final four. Against Shelton, Paul won an impressive 68 percent of his second-serve points, well over the 50 percent mark players strive to surpass. The paths Paul and Shelton have taken has yet again proven how player development is much more art than science. “So I think it maybe has helped me a little bit kind of not having that expectation or the feeling that I have to perform, but being able to just go out there, be myself and play free. “It being my first time, never being out of the United States, I knew it would be a struggle,” said Shelton following his round-of-16 win over fellow former American college player, J.J. He’s also obliterated the assumption that to excel, a young American must travel the globe. The flavor of Roddick-Fish was poles apart from Paul-Shelton. This, after all, was the first all-American quarterfinal at a major in 16 years, an occurrence that last happened when Andy Roddick beat his good friend, Mardy Fish, in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open. For each man’s Australian Open delivered joy not simply in the present, but, even more pleasing, offered a glimpse into captivating possibilities. But to watch tennis well permits—better yet, encourages—a completely different relationship to time. Rublev; Paul vs.

Tommy Paul is the first American man to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open since Andy Roddick in 2009 after defeating Ben Shelton on Wednesday.

It made me the player I am today. "Obviously he's pretty comfortable here in Australia. Paul has a challenging semifinal matchup in store against Serbian Novak Djokovic, who has only dropped one set in the tournament thus far. "Mine has been, like, the slowest [path]," Paul said. He said, 'Congrats,'" Paul said. It made me who I am today. Shelton (UF), Nakashima (UVA), McDonald (UCLA), Brooksby (Baylor), Cressy (UCLA) and Wolf (OSU) all took advantage of at least a year of collegiate eligibility. Paul chose to forgo his opportunity to play college tennis. tennis, too." at the place where I grew up playing tennis, we had the posters of him when he won [the 2003 U.S. American Mackenzie McDonald even dispatched Rafael Nadal from the tournament in the second round. tennis fans some hope as eight men advanced to the third round while three reached the quarterfinal rounds.

Tommy Paul didn't play collegiate tennis. Instead, he came up through the junior circuit and turned pro in 2015. He's one of the rare Americans who plays ...

Tennis is one of the sports for most enthusiasts that comes to the forefront four times a year, and the Australian Open is one of that quartet on the calendar that’s awkwardly placed. Either way, Paul’s career is about to change, and shame on a heavy majority of us for it taking this long to notice him. Now the Americans’ hopes solely rest on Paul for the first time in the tournament with a juggernaut looming across the court. The 20-year-old Shelton won an NCAA Title last year at Florida and was traveling outside the United States for a tournament for the first time as a professional. Call it my New York bias, but having the tournament domestically, as opposed to halfway around the world, makes a substantial difference. 1 player, a 9-time Australian Open champion, a competitor who’s never lost in the Aussie semis,

The dream runs of Tommy Paul and Magda Linette continued while Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka cruised into the semis. · Djokovic easily advances to ...

It will be a battle of experience versus new talent when Novak Djokovic takes on Tommy Paul in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

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Most pro tennis players will book mark the most memorable achievements in their careers. For example, first ATP or WTA match win, tournament win, major ...

It took until 2019 for Paul to crack the top 100 in the ATP rankings and until 2021 where he won his first ATP singles title in Stockholm, Sweden. A 16-year-old Paul defeated him by a 5-7, 7-6(4), 6-3 margin in the first round of the main draw in 20134 at the Vero Beach event, then run and organized by local promoter Mike Rahaley. In the case of rising American tennis star Tommy Paul, he earned his first ever ATP point at the U.S.