Alexander Zverev denied Ben Shelton his US Open dream to win his second grand slam title and deny the American in his bid to end his country’s long tournament drought.
It has been 23 years since an American man, Andy Roddick, last won the US Open but Shelton’s run to his first grand slam final, where he defeated defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in an epic quarter-final, suggested that he could break that spell.
