“I’d say, if I had a grade myself on playing, I’ve played B or C tennis so far this year,” Ben Shelton says. “I don’t think that I’ve played my best tennis this season. I don’t think that we’ve seen my peak this year.”
Shelton is fresh off of Wimbledon when he tells me this. The same grand slam where, in a span of a week, he played three grueling five-setters and two doubles matches before falling to world No 1 Jannik Sinner in the round of 16. He also began the tournament with a bone bruise on his knee from a bad fall at a practice. “I actually wasn’t sure if I was going to play,” he says.
