The highest American males will battle for supremacy on the DC Open, the place Frances Tiafoes hopes to shine on his hometown stage subsequent week.
Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz, Learner Tien, and Frances Tiafoe are among the many eight seeds on this yr’s DC Open draw, whereas 4 extra People – Alex Michelsen, Brandon Nakashima, Tommy Paul and Ethan Quinn characteristic within the stacked 32-player discipline.
That’s earlier than six qualifiers are positioned on Sunday night (already Martin Damm has made it by way of).
See the total draw right here (we’ll replace after qualifiers are positioned this night)
Along with the People, followers can sit up for seeing loads of huge names on the boys’s aspect.
Alex de Minaur is the highest seed, Roland Garros semifinalists Jakub Mensik (seeded seventh) and Matteo Arnaldi are within the combine together with Lorenzo Musetti (seeded fourth); former champion Kei Nishikori will make his final look as a wild card and Arthur Fils and Rafael Jodar will face one another in a high-powered first-round conflict of rising abilities.
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- [1] Alex de Minaur vs Stefanos Tsitisipas
- [3] Taylor Fritz vs Zizou Bergs
- Alex Michelsen vs Jack Draper
- [8] Arthur Fils vs Rafael Jodar
- [WC] Kei Nishikori vs Shang Juncheng
- [6] Frances Tiafoe vs Terence Atmane
- [2] Ben Shelton vs Ethan Quinn
Foremost draw motion kicks off on Monday.
Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a contract sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who’s a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He additionally writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.
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