Zverev Destroys Shelton to win US Open title with Ease.

Alexander Zverev shattered the American dream by beating Ben Shelton in the US Open final.
The big-serving German overpowered 23-year-old Shelton to claim his second grand slam title this year.

Although in a bizarre ending, when a Shelton return flew long on match point, Zverev hit the balls back down the other end ready for another game.
Only when Zverev glanced up to the big screen did he realise he had actually won.

Zverev was playing in his sixth major final and Shelton his first, and it showed in the opening stages as the top seed moved ominously into a 2-0 lead.
Shelton showed great resilience to take the match to a fourth set, but Zverev’s 6-3 7-6 (2) 5-7 6-2 victory extinguished America’s hopes of a first male winner since Andy Roddick in 2003.

Shelton, the first black American man to reach the final since Arthur Ashe in 1972, walked out to a rapturous welcome from the partisan 23,000 spectators inside the stadium named after the pioneering Ashe.

A star-studded crowd included actors Brad Pitt, Rami Malek and James Bond star Pierce Brosnan, to whom a mischievous TV director panned with the match clock reading 0.07.

But Shelton looked both shaken and stirred when he double-faulted to hand Zverev a break in the first game, and again on set point as the title favourite eased ahead.