Last week, in the quiet, upstairs green room of a giant Brooklyn field house that the Swiss sportswear brand On had transformed into a swanky tennis arena for its pre-US Open fête, Clubhouse Nights, 21-year-old Ben Shelton appeared buoyant and relaxed, as if he’d come home after eight months on the grueling, singularly intercontinental professional tennis circuit. Shelton, the 13th-ranked player in the world, is from Atlanta, but he seems unusually well-adjusted to the clamor of New York, where last year he enjoyed a breakout run to the semifinals of the U.S. Open, announcing himself as the Next Big Thing in American men’s tennis (and launching the sport’s coolest victory celebration in the process).
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