“Most of these guys who are at the top of the game right now, they were prodigies—five or six years old, racket in their hand, training every day,” Shelton said. “I wasn’t really supposed to be this great player. And so to get to the Top 20 in the world within two years of playing college tennis? That’s something that I don’t take for granted.”
“It’s tough to be a finished product by 18 if you start at 12—but I’m not a finished product.” Ben Shelton, Vogue (March 2025)
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Both “princes” are set to play in Indian Wells, California, at the BNP Paribas Open, the first combined ATP and WTA 1000 tournament, as well as the first ATP Masters 1000 of the year.
Draper and Shelton each own one ATP 250 and one ATP 500 title to their name. Could one of them earn their career’s biggest “crown” in just a few weeks?
