An adoring home crowd wasn't enough to lift Ben Shelton into tennis history

Ben Shelton may have had “99.9%” of the U.S. Open crowd cheering for him, as opponent Alexander Zverev estimated. But in the end that wasn't enough, and Shelton fell to the more consistent and more experienced Zverev. If he'd won, Shelton would have been the first American to win a Grand Slam title since Andy Roddick won the U.S. Open in 2003. He also would have been the first Black man to win the tournament since Arthur Ashe in 1968.

But if Shelton felt hampered by the weight of history, he did not mention it. Instead he said he was focused on the future, and coming back better.

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