{"id":36752,"date":"2025-12-19T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/djokovic-draper-or-shelton-who-could-challenge-alcaraz-and-sinner-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:29:02","slug":"djokovic-draper-or-shelton-who-could-challenge-alcaraz-and-sinner-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/djokovic-draper-or-shelton-who-could-challenge-alcaraz-and-sinner-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic, Draper or Shelton: Who could challenge Alcaraz and Sinner in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With serves touching 150mph and plenty of on-court sass, Shelton announced himself with his run to the New York semi-finals in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-handed American reached another Grand Slam semi-final in Melbourne this year, but came unstuck against Sinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His progress at the next two majors was blocked by Alcaraz at Roland Garros and Sinner again at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the next guy will have to have a huge ego if he wants to be in the mix &#8211; so it can be someone like Shelton, maybe,&#8221; said Mouratoglou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will have to make progress but I think his confidence in himself and in his game is big enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former British number one Greg Rusedski agrees Shelton has the &#8220;firepower&#8221; to win a major.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But only if he makes the improvements on his backhand, his court positioning and plays the big points better,&#8221; Rusedski added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c2kp74gxpe7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With serves touching 150mph and plenty of on-court sass, Shelton announced himself with his run to the New York semi-finals in 2023. The left-handed American reached another Grand Slam semi-final in Melbourne this year, but came unstuck against Sinner. His progress at the next two majors was blocked by Alcaraz at Roland Garros and Sinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36754,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752\/revisions\/36754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}