Tennis fans are baffled after hearing that Carlos Alcaraz would be scared to challenge Ben Shelton. Shelton and Christopher Eubanks can be seen talking in a video that has been circulated on social media. Shelton declared that he wants to be a player with whom other competitors do not want to be drawn into any competition.

Shelton commented: “I want to be that dude in the draw that there’s not one player who wants to see me. I’m talking scared of me.”

Eubanks responded by saying that at this time, not even the top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz would want to compete against Shelton: “All right, next. Who wants to see you right now? Who wants to see you right now? Carlos Alcaraz does not want to see your name next to his. I can promise you that.”

Those remarks were not well received by some fans.  These were some comments on Twitter:

• “How me and my besties feed each others delusions”
• “Let us reintroduce the concept of shame and humility maybe idk”
• “You need a friend who is more delusional about you than you!”
• “this is how i support my friend’s delusions”
• “Hyping up your friends is great but it should probably be kept within the realm of reality lmao”

Carlos Alcaraz in 2023

Now the world no.1, the Spaniard played his last match on the 16^th of July when he beat world no.2 Novak Djokovic 1-6 7-6(6) 6-1 3-6 6-4

in the final in Wimbledon to win his 12^th career title.

Until now, during this year Carlos has managed to achieve a composed 47-4 match record. The Spaniard has won 6 titles in 2023 in Buenos Aires, Indian Wells, Barcelona, Madrid, London and Wimbledon. The Spaniard was the runner-up in Rio de Janeiro.

He is also scheduled to play in Cincinnati (Western & Southern Open) on the 13th of August and U.S. Open (U.S. Open) on the 28th of August.

Ben Shelton in 2023

Currently the world no.41, Shelton played his last match on the 25^th of July when he was defeated by world no.156 Juncheng Shang 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in Atlanta (draw).

At the moment, during this season Ben has managed to achieve an overall 12-19 match record. Ben Shelton’s most significant result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Cagliari Challenger.

Shelton has scheduled to play next in Washington (Citi Open). He will start to play the tournament from the main draw that will commence on the 31st of July thanks to a wild card.

Carlos Alcaraz and Ben Shelton have never faced off.