Shelton was catapulted into the top 50 earlier this year and has all the attributes to follow in the footsteps of USA's last male grand slam winner Andy Roddick
“I went to Estoril and the night before my second-round match against Dominic Thiem I went to really high-end seafood restaurant with some family friends who live in Portugal and I got food poisoning,” Shelton adds.
These are lessons best learned the hard way, but Shelton is clearly a quick learner and a good student with oodles of natural talent. Having grown up in Atlanta, Georgia, he remains an Atlanta Falcons fan with due pessimism – “they haven’t been good. Ever.” – as well as supporting the Florida Gators, the team of the university. When he isn’t playing, tennis is rarely top of his priority list.
But he does, clearly, like to play plenty of tennis too. He has been a regular on the doubles court as well as singles, in an effort to improve areas of his game that mean he is, for the moment at least, a slightly incomplete player. That said, Shelton is not yet the finished article, and actually might find that his sudden rise up the rankings is working against him.“He doesn’t have loads of variation in his game, he doesn’t have much court-craft, and he doesn’t volley very well. That would be my concern.
“He was already better than a Challenger player – he’d won enough Challengers but sometimes you can do with, say, qualifying for a few main Tour events, qualifying for a couple of slams, and going through it that way.
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