Tommy Paul

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.

Unseeded American player Tommy Paul is through to his first grand slam semi final, having beaten Ben Shelton in four sets on Rod Laver Arena.

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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.

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.

American held his nerve in the big points and stood up well to his 20-year-old compatriot's blistering serve to reach his first Grand Slam semi.

"I wasn't expecting that, but I'm really happy to get through that match. Doing well in a Grand Slam is everyone's dream." Paul held his nerve in the big points and stood up well to his 20-year-old opponent's blistering serve to reach his first Grand Slam semi on Wednesday. "I asked him (Stine), because I had trouble all day on breakpoints and big points and I didn't know where to lean and he screamed 'T' and I covered the 'T' but Shelton went wide," Paul said. Paul took a tight first set at Rod Laver Arena in a tiebreak after a fierce forehand prompted Shelton to crash a return into the net, and the 25-year-old went up 4-2 in the next set when Shelton's booming serve cracked. American held his nerve in the big points and stood up well to his 20-year-old compatriot's blistering serve to reach his first Grand Slam semi.

Aryna Sabalenka and Magda Linette also advanced to the semifinals.

Tommy Paul became the first American man to reach the Australian Open semi-finals since Andy Roddick in 2009 after outclassing Ben Shelton.

Doing well in a Grand Slam is everyone's dream." I love these conditions, this court, it's definitely special for me," Djokovic said. He joins John Isner and Frances Tiafoe as the only active American men to have reached the last four of a major.

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.

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 male semi-finalist at Melbourne Park since Andy Roddick but must now face Novak Djokovic.

“I don’t see why at the end of this year we couldn’t have five, six guys in the top 20 with the way that some of these guys are playing that aren’t inside the top 20 right now,” he says. On Friday he will have the unenviable task of attempting to stop The most notable element of all of this is that none of these players is over 25. Of the 16 Americans in the men’s draw, Fritz and Tiafoe started the tournament the most fancied. Right now there are nine American players in the top 50 – including two in the top 30, Taylor Fritz (ranked ninth) and Frances Tiafoe (17th). Confirmation came in May 2021 when, for the first time in nearly 50 years of computerised tennis rankings, the ATP’s top 30 did not feature an American man.