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    Ben Shelton of the US plays a return to Lorenzo Sonego of Italy during their Wimbledon fourth-round match on Monday. AP

    LONDON — Ben Shelton reached his first Wimbledon quarterfinal — going a round better than his father-turned coach, Bryan, did in 1994 — by beating Lorenzo Sonego 3-6, 6-1,7-6 (1), 7-5 on Monday.

    Shelton, a 22-year-old American who won the 2022 NCAA singles title for the University of Florida, improved to 3-0 against Italy's Sonego in Grand Slam action this season. It's the first time two men faced each other in a year's first three majors since John McEnroe went 3-0 against Jimmy Connors in 1984.

    The 10th-seeded Shelton also eliminated Sonego in the Australian Open's quarterfinals in January, and the French Open's first round in May.

    "Every time I need a big point, he comes up with a highlight shot," Shelton said, "and maybe the same, vice versa."

    Shelton finished this latest meeting with a flourish, breaking the 47th-ranked Sonego to avoid heading to a tiebreaker, then throwing his head back, pounding his chest and yelling: "Come on!"

    "I'm happy with the way that I played that last game. I feel like that was my best tennis, my best returning, and that's what I'm going to need to continue in this tournament," said Shelton, who advanced to a matchup against No 1 Jannik Sinner. "So, for me to end the match with that sort of game gives me a lot of confidence moving forward."

    Sinner hurt his right elbow in a fall in the first game of his match with No 19 Grigor Dimitrov on Monday and lost the first two sets. He advanced when Dimitrov was forced to retire in the third set because of a chest muscle injury.

    Shelton has lost his last five matchups against Sinner, all in straight sets, including in Wimbledon's fourth round a year ago and in the Australian Open semifinals in January.

    "The guy's a machine," Shelton said.

    Up in the stands at Court One were Shelton's parents, his sister Emma — who stuck around at the All England Club after he made a public plea for her not to return to her job at Morgan Stanley on Monday, as originally planned — and his girlfriend, US national soccer team star Trinity Rodman.

    "I've got a lot of people that I love over there," Shelton said during his on-court interview.

    He credited his father with inspiring the way he plays on grass.

    "He was in the round of 16 here — 31 years ago give or take. He was a serve-and-volleyer. Big serve. Came forward all the time. He would like to see me coming forward a little bit more than I am. My argument is that I think I'm better than him from the baseline," Shelton said.

    But, he's also showing that he has a knack for success on the slick surface, doing the sorts of things that constitute what Shelton termed "vintage style" tennis of moving forward and cutting off angles, and generally being "a little bit unpredictable".

    Against Sonego, Shelton won the point on 43 of his 58 trips to the net, including 11 of 17 when serve-and-volleying.

    If he can produce those sorts of numbers in his next match, that could help get him to a third career Grand Slam semifinal, after the 2023 US Open and this year's Australian Open.

    Agencies via Xinhua

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