{"id":47754,"date":"2025-07-08T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47754\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:20:13","slug":"ben-sheltons-sister-becoming-wimbledon-star-after-viral-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47754\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton\u2019s sister becoming Wimbledon star after viral moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Shelton isn\u2019t the only tennis star in his family.<\/p>\n

Emma Shelton, the sister of the 22-year-old tennis phenom, has become a breakout star during her brother\u2019s run at Wimbledon \u2014 and has gotten plenty of TV time during Shelton\u2019s run at the All England Club.<\/p>\n

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It started when Shelton defeated Hungary\u2019s Marton Fucsovics in straight sets to reach the Round of 16 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Following the match, Shelton gave Emma a shout-out, calling her his \u201clucky charm\u201d throughout the tournament, and explained she needed more PTO from her job at Morgan Stanley to stay in London to support him.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Ben Shelton\u2019s mom Lisa, his girlfriend Trinity Rodman girlfriend and his sister Emma react to him telling the Wimbledon crowd that Emma needs more days off from work to stay at the tournament in London. PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Ben Shelton during the men\u2019s singles fourth round match against Lorenzo Sonego of Italy at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Monday, July 7, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sister\u2019s here,\u201d Shelton said after his victory on Saturday. \u201cShe\u2019s been here for every match I\u2019ve played in this tournament so far. She\u2019s been the lucky charm. But she has work back in the U.S. starting on Monday. She works for Morgan Stanley.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crowd began booing as the camera focused on Emma, who was laughing while covering her mouth with her hands.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAy ay ay! Come on now,\u201d Shelton continued. \u201cSo if any of y\u2019all have some connects and can get her a couple extra days off, we\u2019re gonna keep this rolling and that would be great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelton\u2019s parents and his girlfriend, USWNT star Trinity Rodman, were seen laughing.<\/p>\n

Emma, a former college tennis player at the University of Florida and South Carolina, is a digital virtual engagement associate at Morgan Stanley in Georgia, according to her LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

She played two seasons with the Gamecocks women\u2019s tennis team before transferring to the University of Florida, where her father serves as the head coach of the men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

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Ben Shelton\u2019s girlfriend Trinity Rodman (L) and Emma Shelton watch the men\u2019s singles fourth round match against Lorenzo Sonego of Italy at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Monday, July 7, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

In the 2022-23 season, her last, Emma was a perfect 5-0 in singles play\u00a0at the Bedford Cup en route to claiming the Green bracket individual title.<\/p>\n

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Shelton, chasing his first-ever singles Grand Slam, previously shared in an Instagram Story video that Emma got the first week of July off from work to support him at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

She was seen jumping up and down in the clip.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Ben Shelton\u2019s parents, Bryan and Lisa, his girlfriend Trinity Rodman, and his sister supporting him at the men\u2019s singles fourth round match against Lorenzo Sonego of Italy at the Wimbledon Championships in London, July 7, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Emma returned to the All England Club on Monday for Ben\u2019s fourth-round victory over Italian Lorenzo Sonego, and was seen sitting with Rodman and parents Bryan and Lisa.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Emma\u2019s] still around here because Ben\u2019s urging probably helped her company, her employer \u2026 let her stay a little longer and skip a little more work,\u201d one of the announcers said as cameras captured Shelton\u2019s family in the stands.<\/p>\n

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The announcers also discussed the boos that came during Emma\u2019s previous appearance.<\/p>\n

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Ben Shelton in action at Wimbledon on July 7, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWere those boos just because she works back in the U.S.?\u201d one of the announcers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not sure,\u201d another broadcast replied. \u201cBut you know what they, you gotta keep the rhythm going. A lot of players they like when they look up at the player\u2019s box and see the same people seeing in the same area time and time again. So maybe for Ben it is important to see Emma with mom, dad, coach in that order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelton dropped the first set to Sonego before winning the final three. He will face the winner of the match between top-seeded Jannik Sinner and veteran Grigor Dimitrov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton isn\u2019t the only tennis star in his family. Emma Shelton, the sister of the 22-year-old tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[29503,21485,36757,13864,13201,62,1464,30491,67,132,68,14374],"class_list":{"0":"post-47754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-all-england-club","9":"tag-ben-shelton","10":"tag-emma-shelton","11":"tag-lorenzo-sonego","12":"tag-morgan-stanley","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-trinity-rodman","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wimbledon-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114815698664319570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}