By Tennis Now | @TennisNow | Monday, January 27, 2025
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Rising American stars will trip profitable waves into Delray Seashore.
Australian Open breakout stars Learner Tien and Nishesh Basavareddy are set to play the Delray Seashore Open qualifying occasion as a part of Opening Weekend February 7-9 on the Delray Seashore Stadium & Tennis Middle, the event introduced.
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4 gamers will advance from the qualifying draw to the ATP 250 major draw occasion that takes place February 10-Sixteenth.
Tickets can be found at DelrayBeachOpen.com
Tien and Basavareddy, two 19-year-old People, electrified followers on the season’s first Grand Slam.
The left-handed Tien gained three qualifying matches to achieve the principle draw, then gained three extra matches, together with a win over No. 5 Daniil Medvedev in a fifth-set tiebreak, to turn out to be the youngest man to achieve the Australian Open fourth spherical since Rafael Nadal in 2005. Basavareddy earned a wild card into his first Grand Slam major draw, then gained his first Grand Slam set in opposition to 10-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic earlier than falling in 4 units.
Tien, who completed third on the 2021 USTA Nationwide Clay Courtroom Boys’ 18 Championships in Delray Seashore, will climb roughly 40 spots to crack the world’s Prime 100 for the primary time subsequent week at a projected No. 80. Basavareddy is on the doorstep at present at a career-high No. 107.
They are going to be making an attempt to hitch fellow People Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul within the Delray Seashore Open major draw. Fritz, world-ranked No. 4, is the two-time defending champion, and final 12 months’s runner-up Paul will make his debut on the earth’s Prime 10 rankings subsequent week after reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals. View the preliminary major draw entry checklist right here.
Different gamers well-known to Delray Seashore tennis followers who will compete within the DBO qualifying rounds embrace 2023 Wimbledon quarterfinalist Christopher Eubanks and two-time Delray Seashore Open semifinalist Mackenzie McDonald.
2025 Delray Seashore Open qualifying subject by the numbers to this point (two wild playing cards nonetheless to be added to the sphere):
3 ATP Tour title winners (Christopher Eubanks, Yibing Wu, Taro Daniel)
5 earlier Delray Seashore Open major draw gamers (Christopher Eubanks, Mackenzie McDonald, Aleksandar Kovacevic, Taro Daniel, Mitchell Krueger)
4 gamers who gained matches at 2025 Australian Open (Learner Tien, Tristan Boyer, Mitchell Krueger, James Duckworth)
1 NCAA singles champion (Mackenzie McDonald, UCLA, 2016)
7 People (Christopher Eubanks, Nishesh Basavareddy, Aleksandar Kovacevic, Learner Tien, Mackenzie McDonald, Tristan Boyer, Mitchell Krueger)
5 gamers age 25 or youthful (Youngest – Learner Tien, 19)
3 gamers age 30 or older (Oldest – James Duckworth, 33)
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