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These are the moments that make it feel like it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

When Ben Shelton fired a 146 mph ace past Carlos Alcaraz at 3:33 a.m. \u2014 the latest-ever finish in a history of U.S. Opens full of them \u2014 to end the thriller that needed four hours, 28 minutes, five sets and a grand finale of a tiebreak.<\/p>\n

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When No. 11 seed Frances Tiafoe stunned unseeded 22-year-old Alex Michelsen after trailing by two sets, soaring back into the semifinals at Flushing Meadows for the third time in his career.<\/p>\n

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This was all supposed to fall in favor of the Americans. This was supposed to be their chance, with Jannik Sinner out due to a lingering right knee injury and Alcaraz just returning from an absence of his own and so many other top names already eliminated from the U.S. Open draw. This, more succinctly, was supposed to be the year they ended the Grand Slam title drought that dates back to Andy Roddick in 2003.<\/p>\n

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Ben Shelton beat Carlos Alcaraz at 3:33 a.m. in the latest finish in U.S. Open history, joining Frances Tiafoe in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyond-the-back-page"],"yoast_head":"\nBen Shelton's late-night epic and a day of wild possibility at the U.S. Open - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=8468\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Shelton's late-night epic and a day of wild possibility at the U.S. Open - 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