Just 15 months ago, Ben Shelton was a pretty good college tennis player with a lot of promise; a year ago, after turning pro, he was ranked 802 in the world. Now 20 years old, here he was, in the middle of a historic New York heatwave, playing a night session against the second-highest-ranked player in American men’s tennis inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, the most-watched arena of the sport’s biggest event in front of its loudest, rudest crowd—which was rooting against him.
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