Ben Shelton discovered love off the courtroom with Trinity Rodman.
After the pair had been noticed a number of instances in public in 2024, the tennis star took to Instagram in March 2025 to substantiate his romance with Rodman by sharing a photograph of her kissing his cheek.
“I been centered, however I'm regular climbin', I'm nowhere close to my peak,” Shelton captioned the submit.
One month later, Shelton opened up about his romance with the soccer participant, noting that making their relationship work “isn't the simplest” due to their busy schedules.
“You gotta make sacrifices typically,” he advised Us Weekly in April 2025. “It's simply the life that we stay. The lives that we stay proper now and for the foreseeable future. I feel that it's important to have two selfless individuals in a scenario like this, and I feel we've got that.”
Rodman has continued to help Shelton at a number of of his matches, together with Shelton beating Lorenzo Sonego in Spherical 16 at Wimbledon in July 2025.
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2024
Romance rumors started to swirl after Rodman and Shelton had been noticed collectively hanging out with Chris Eubanks and Coco Gauff. Nonetheless, Shelton swiftly denied having a relationship with Rodman in January 2025.
“Yeah, me Chris and Coco, we'll do escape rooms, typically we'll go on a dare,” Shelton defined in an on-court interview on the Australian Open. “We is likely to be retired after this week as a result of the paparazzi are taking photos of us and cropping Chris out of the picture, so Chris wasn't too completely happy about that.”
March 2025
Shelton hard-launched his relationship with Rodman on Instagram when he posted an image of her kissing his cheek.
Rodman, for her half, additionally shared a cute selfie of Shelton and her smiling at one another with the caption, “Dibs 🤭.”
USWNT ahead Trinity Rodman is making a reputation for herself on the Olympic stage, ushering in a brand new period of U.S. girls's soccer. After briefly attending Washington State College, Rodman, 22, was chosen because the second draft decide for the Washington Spirit. At solely 18, Rodman grew to become the youngest participant ever drafted, and went on […]
April 2025
Practically one month after confirming his relationship with Rodman, Shelton revealed that he wasn't ready for the general public response.
“I used to be certain some individuals would discuss it, however I didn't assume it could be a break the Web kind of factor,” he advised Us. “However I've at all times been like, ‘OK, if I've a critical girlfriend then posting about it on Instagram isn't that loopy.'”
Shelton famous that sharing the submit additionally helped put hypothesis about his courting life to relaxation.
“I really feel like for the previous six months, at any time when I'd get seen with any individual, individuals would assume we had been courting,” he defined. “It's like, no, we're simply associates. Or if I'd hand around in a gaggle of three and it was a man and a lady, they'd minimize the man out and make it look like I used to be on a date. It's both gonna be I submit about my girlfriend or they submit about assuming who my girlfriend is.”
The tennis participant additionally revealed that his and Rodman's busy schedules make their relationship not “the simplest at instances,” however he believes at instances it's important to “make sacrifices.”
“It's simply the life that we stay. The lives that we stay proper now and for the foreseeable future,” he shared with Us. “I feel that it's important to have two selfless individuals in a scenario like this, and I feel we've got that.”
Later that month, the Olympian supported Shelton in Munich at his semifinal match towards Argentine athlete Francisco Cerundolo. Shelton ended up profitable the match and securing a spot within the occasion finals. He finally misplaced 6-4 to Germany's Alexander Zverev.
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Pictures Dennis Rodman has confronted his interior “demons” about parenthood by way of the years. “I feel the one main demon I've proper now could be attempting to persuade myself that I'm a very good dad,” Rodman stated throughout a 2020 ESPN interview. “It's very laborious for me to attempt to get away of that […]
Could 2025
Shelton took to Instagram to share a candy submit for Rodman's birthday.
“Glad birthday stunning lady I really like you,” he captioned a photograph of the duo in a candy embrace and an image of Rodman laughing.
July 2025
After supporting Shelton at his match in Wimbledon, Rodman took to social media to share her grievances with the tv broadcast.
“For many who don't know…my identify is TRINITY not Tiffany 😭😂,” she stated by way of Instagram Story, earlier than occurring to deal with her estranged father, former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who was referenced a number of instances in the course of the broadcast. “Additionally, for Ben's matches he has his household there as his help system, which incorporates his dad…my dad's not even in MY life no must carry him up throughout HIS matches after I don't even need him talked about throughout mine.”
Trinity famous that it's Shelton and “his family members' second.”
Later that month, Trinity shared photos of a few of her summer season moments, which included journeys with Shelton.
“Not the summer season that I had in thoughts however nonetheless beloved each second ❤️can't wait to be again on the sector,” she wrote via Instagram alongside a number of images together with certainly one of her kissing Shelton in entrance of the ocean.
August 2025
When Rodman got here to help her boyfriend in the course of the first day of the US Open, Shelton gave her a candy shout-out. “My girlfriend took the red-eye from California final evening to be right here,” he stated, per ESPN, as cameras panned to Rodman within the stands.
