Ben Shelton Shirtless, Girlfriend, Titles. Years ago, we thought the likes of Stefanos Tsitsipas, Daniil Medvedev, Casper Ruud, and our favorite Nick Kyrgios would send the old guard packing but, we must say, the young guns pretty much underperformed. Sure, Roger Federer is now retired, Rafael Nadal is on his way out, and Novak Djokovic is no longer unbeatable but these oldsters were not defeated and displaced by the Tennis Next Gen. Rather, they lost to or are being beaten by Father Time.
We say all that because maybe the real Next Gen who will lord it over the tennis realm belongs not to the Kyrgios generation but to Ben Shelton and his cohorts, no? Although he’s still to win an ATP title, Ben impressed at the Australian Open this year when he made it all the way to the quarterfinals. His feat made headlines in the US and the tennis world and he even made it to the pages of Vogue Magazine.