US Open 2026 quarter-final: Ben Shelton v Carlos Alcaraz – live updates

Second set: *Shelton 6-7, 0-1 Alcaraz (*denotes next server) Hope for Shelton right out of the gate as Alcaraz goes behind love-15, then 15-40 on his serve. Two break-point chances and the Spaniard saves them both for deuce. Shelton then rips a forehand winner for a third break point but Alcaraz saves it with a forehand winner of his own.

Alcaraz then mishits a forehand to give Shelton a fourth break point before saving it with a highlight-reel backhand winner on the pass. He holds from there, closing it out with a 117mph ace down the middle. That’s a brutal sequence of missed opportunities for Shelton going back to early in the first-set tiebreaker.