WIMBLEDON star Ben Shelton left a BBC star red-faced after correcting her in his post-match interview.
The American star after beating Lorenzo Sonego.
The No10 seed won the last 16 clash 3-6 6-1 7-6 7-5.
And following the game, the 22-year-old was interviewed by BBC host .
She opened by congratulating him for reaching the quarter finals for the first time in his career.
Croft, 58, then asked him about his time in college playing .
However, she was cheekily corrected by the native at the unusual phrasing of one position.
Croft said: “Just finally, I was reading that in college you loved your American and you were a quarterbacker?
“I hope I got that right. What are the comparisons between and American football?”;
was seen smiling at the phrasing of “quarterback”;, before answering: “I grew up playing quarterback, or ‘quarterbacker’... either way.
“Probably the only thing that is a direct correlation between tennis is the serve, as you guys can probably see.
“That’s kind of the one thing that I took from football onto the tennis court.”;
Court One spectators were left in stitches at the jokey rebuttal, while Croft herself was seen playing with her hair and chuckling at the correction.
Shelton then continued: “Obviously I have always loved . Playing in a team sports, something bigger than yourself.
“Now I am obviously playing an individual sport but I have a team supporting me that I work with every day so that’s the most important thing to me.
“I don’t want to be out here by myself, I want to be doing it with people that I love and I have a lot of people that I love over there.”;
Shelton also revealed his father, Bryan, was a huge inspiration for his style of play on grass courts – with his huge serves becoming a staple of his game with hits as fast as 145mph against Sonego.
He added: “Big serve, came forward all the time, he would like to see me come forward a little bit more than I am.
“My argument is that I think I am better than him from the baseline, and he had a better serve than me, maybe.
“So he kind of inspires the way that I am playing on grass, the way I am moving forward, the way I am cutting off angles, wanting to mix in the serve-and-volley style, the vintage style of tennis every once and a while and be a bit more unpredictable on the court.
“He is the guy who puts our gameplans together and so far, so good.”;
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