Ben Shelton stormed into his fifth semifinal of 2024, stunning Andrey Rublev, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-4 a the Swiss Indoors Basel.
The 2023 US Open semifinalist has displayed impressive consistency in the follow-up to his breakthrough season and caught fire on a smoking indoor court, the No. 6 seed shrugging off a delay to deal with Center Court fog to score his second Top 10 victory in two months after two hours and 13 minutes against the top-seeded Rublev.
Shelton looks to have channeled the disappointment from a third-round US Open defeat to Frances Tiafoe in positive ways in the last six weeks, pulling off a strong comeback against former world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev at Laver Cup and reaching the quarterfinals of an ATP 500 tournament in Tokyo before playing top-ranked Jannik tough at the Rolex Shanghai Masters in China.
