The 2006 US Open Men's Qualifying Tournament ran from August 22 to 25. Sixteen players qualified for the
Men's Singles Main Draw, which started on August 28.
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Players who have lost are listed with the round in which they exited.
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Frank Dancevic
Frank Russell Dancevic ( ; sr, Френк Расел Данчевић, Frenk Rasel Dančević, ; born September 26, 1984) is a retired Canadian professional tennis player. He first became the country's top singles player, according to ATP rank ...
''(second round)''
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Denis Gremelmayr ''(qualifying competition)''
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Jiří Vaněk (qualified)
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Stefano Galvani ''(second round)''
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Dick Norman
Dick Norman (born 1 March 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. He achieved a degree of folk popularity among tennis fans due to his height (6 feet 8 inches), his left-handed power game and, in the last few years of h ...
''(first round)''
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Rik de Voest
Rik de Voest (born 5 June 1980) is a former professional South African tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 110 in August 2006. Rik resides in Vancouver, Canada where he pursues a career in real estate.
De V ...
''(second round)''
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Nicolás Lapentti
Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez (; born 13 August 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador. His brothers, Giovanni and Leonardo, uncle Andrés, and cousins Roberto and Emilio also are or were on the pro circuit. His fath ...
''(qualifying competition)''
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Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker (born 16 June 1981) is a German retired professional tennis player who is known for defeating former world No. 1 Andre Agassi in the third round at the 2006 US Open in what was Agassi's last match as a professional player.
Bec ...
(qualified)
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Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro () (born 23 September 1988) is an Argentine inactive professional tennis player. Del Potro's biggest achievement is a major title: the 2009 US Open, where he defeated Rafael Nadal in the semifinals and the five-time defen ...
(qualified)
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Stefan Koubek (qualified)
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Kristian Pless (qualified)
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Evgeny Korolev
Evgeny Evgenyevich Korolev ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Королёв; born 14 February 1988) is a retired Russian tennis player and the cousin of former Russian player Anna Kournikova. He began playing tennis at age four wi ...
''(qualifying competition)''
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Danai Udomchoke
Danai Udomchoke ( th, ดนัย อุดมโชค, born 11 August 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Thailand. He was born in Bangkok, where he still resides.
Udomchoke turned professional in 1997, and was coached by Jan ...
''(first round)''
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Kenneth Carlsen
Kenneth Carlsen (born 17 April 1973) is a Danish former professional tennis player, who was active between 1992 and 2007. Carlsen played left-handed with a one-handed backhand. His greatest asset was his powerful serve, and his game was therefor ...
''(second round)''
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Thiago Alves (qualified)
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Paul Capdeville ''(second round)''
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Alejandro Falla
Alejandro Falla Ramírez (; born 14 November 1983) is a retired professional male tennis player from Colombia. The left-hander turned pro in 2000 and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in July 2012. At the 2006 Wimbledon t ...
(qualified)
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Alexander Peya ''(qualifying competition)''
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Albert Portas
Albert Portas Soy (, ; born 15 November 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
Career
Portas turned professional in 1994. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 19 in October 2001.
His only top-level singles tit ...
''(first round)''
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Cyril Saulnier ''(first round)''
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Ricardo Mello
Ricardo Mello (born 21 December 1980) is a Brazilian retired tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was No. 50 in 2005. He won one singles tournament (Delra ...
''(second round)''
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Lu Yen-hsun
Lu Yen-hsun (; born 14 August 1983) is a Taiwanese retired professional tennis player, who goes by the nickname Rendy Lu.
He won the most titles on the ATP Challenger Tour in tennis history. His favorite surface is hardcourt, though several o ...
''(first round)''
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Ivo Minář ''(qualifying competition)''
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Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac ( sr-Cyrl, Илија Бозољац, ; born 2 August 1985) is a former Serbian professional tennis player and coach.
On 29 January 2007, Bozoljac reached his best singles ranking of world No. 101. On 22 February 2016, he peaked at ...
''(second round)''
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Tomáš Zíb ''(qualifying competition)''
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Diego Hartfield
Diego Hartfield (born 31 January 1981), nicknamed 'El Gato Hartfield' (''Hartfield the Cat'' in Spanish) is a stockbroker and a former tennis player on the ATP Tour from Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, l ...
''(first round)''
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Łukasz Kubot
Łukasz Kubot (; born 16 May 1982) is a Polish professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2014 Australian Open with Robert Lindstedt, as well as the 2017 W ...
(qualified)
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Alex Bogdanovic
Aleksa Bogdanovic ( sr, Алекса Богдановић, Aleksa Bogdanović; born 22 May 1984) is a retired Serbian-born English tennis player and former UK no 2. On the professional tour, he won 9 Challenger titles and 4 Futures events, but ...
''(first round)''
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Peter Luczak
Peter Luczak ( pl, Łuczak, ; born 31 August 1979) is a retired professional tennis player for Australia. His career-high ATP singles ranking was World No. 64, achieved in October 2009.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Luczak won ...
''(qualifying competition)''
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George Bastl
George Edward Bastl (born 1 April 1975) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland.
Tennis career
Bastl was an All-American at the University of Southern California.
He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 71 in ...
(qualified)
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Robert Kendrick
Robert Bradley Kendrick (born November 15, 1979) is an American retired professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2000. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 69, achieved in July 2009.
Early life
Robert Kendrick was born to ...
(qualified)
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Amer Delić
Amer Delić (; born June 30, 1982) is a Bosnian American former professional tennis player. He is a former captain and member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team.
Delić was born in Tuzla, then in Yugoslavia, now in the northeastern p ...
''(qualifying competition)''
Qualifiers
Draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
Seventh qualifier
Eighth qualifier
Ninth qualifier
Tenth qualifier
Eleventh qualifier
Twelfth qualifier
Thirteenth qualifier
Fourteenth qualifier
Fifteenth qualifier
Sixteenth qualifier
References
Results2006 US Open – Men's draws and results
at the International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there ...
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