|
2024 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles
Ben Shelton defeated the defending champion Frances Tiafoe in the first African-American men’s singles tennis final in the Open Era, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 to win the singles tennis title at the 2024 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships. It was his second career ATP Tour title, and his first on clay. Shelton became the youngest player to win the tournament since Andy Roddick in 2002. The second round match between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Jordan Thompson was the longest recorded match in the tournament's history lasting 3 hours and 34 minutes, with two tiebreaks in the last two sets. Seeds The top four seeds received a bye into the second round. Draw Finals Top half Bottom half Qualifying Seeds Qualifiers Qualifying draw First qualifier Second qualifier Third qualifier Fourth qualifier References External linksMain draw [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Shelton
Benjamin Todd Shelton (born October 9, 2002) is an American professional tennis player. Shelton has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, achieved on 16 June 2025. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 68 achieved on 20 May 2024. Shelton has won two singles titles on the ATP Tour, and reached two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major semifinals at the 2023 US Open – Men's singles, 2023 US Open and at the 2025 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2025 Australian Open. Shelton won the 2016 Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, USTA junior national championship in doubles. He played college tennis for the Florida Gators men's tennis, Florida Gators. As a true freshman in 2021, he clinched the Gators’ first team NCAA Men's Tennis Championship, national championship with his victory at fifth singles; the following year, he won the men's singles title at the 2022 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships. That same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Nakashima
Brandon Nakashima (born August 3, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 29 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved on 5 May 2025. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 240 on 10 June 2024. Nakashima won the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals. As a junior, Nakashima was ranked as high as No. 3 in the world. In 2018, he won two titles on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior circuit and went on to win that year's ITF Junior Masters, the year-end tournament for the top-ranked junior singles players. Collegiate career Nakashima graduated from high school, High Bluff Academy in San Diego, a semester early, before enrolling at the University of Virginia in January 2019 at the age of 17 to play collegiate tennis for the Virginia Cavaliers. During his time at UVA, he finished the season with a 17–5 record in singles and 20–3 record in doubles. At the end of the season, he received the ACC-Freshman of the Yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Kudla
Denis Kudla ( ; born August 17, 1992) is an American tennis coach and former professional player. He had a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved in May 2016. He had a career-high doubles ranking of No. 133, achieved in August 2018. He won nine Challenger singles and nine doubles titles in his career. He is currently coaching Reilly Opelka. Personal life Kudla's family moved from Ukraine to Fairfax, Virginia on his first birthday. He began playing tennis at age 7, in part because his older brother Nikita played tennis, but also because many of his father's friends played. He used to tag along as Nikita took informal lessons from their father in Fairfax's Van Dyck Park. Kudla's father, Vladimir Kudla, took his family out of Ukraine shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed. Kudla's parents moved to the US not speaking a word of English, but learned it within a few years. His mother got permission to pick him up from elementary school one hour early so that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ritschard
Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss- American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 99, achieved on 30 September 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 388, achieved on 4 April 2022. He is currently the No. 4 Swiss player. Career 2013: ATP Tour debut in doubles Ritschard made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw, partnering Alexander Sadecky. 2022: ATP & Major debuts & first singles win At the age of 28, he made his Grand Slam and ATP Tour debut in singles, after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas who, despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4–1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets. At the Swiss Open, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Shapovalov
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Shapovalov has won three ATP Tour singles titles and produced his best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam performance at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals. Shapovalov also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 44, which he achieved on February 24, 2020. Shapovalov is the third highest-ranked Canadian singles male player in history behind Milos Raonic (world No. 3 in 2016) and Félix Auger-Aliassime (world No. 6 in 2022). As a junior, he has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won two junior Grand Slam titles, his first being the doubles title at the 2015 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2015 US Open with Auger-Aliassime and his second being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Duckworth (tennis)
James Duckworth (born 21 January 1992) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 46 achieved on 31 January 2022 and No. 185 in doubles achieved on 10 February 2020. Duckworth represented Australia in Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, tennis at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 ATP Cup. As a junior, Duckworth enjoyed a successful career which included winning three titles and reaching the semifinals of the 2010 French Open – Boys' singles, 2010 French Open. Personal life Duckworth was born in Sydney. He attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School, where he was on the school tennis first team from Year 7 and went on to win several AAGPS Premierships. He was offered a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport, where he was able to further develop his tennis. Duckworth is a keen supporter of the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League. Junior ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijs Brouwer
Gijs Brouwer (; born 14 March 1996) is a Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 114 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 August 2022. Brouwer has won two ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Puerto Vallarta Open with Reese Stalder and at the 2022 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger with Christian Harrison. Career 2022: ATP & Major debut & top-50 win, top 150 in singles & doubles On his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Brouwer as a qualifier, made the quarterfinals after defeating Feliciano López and J. J. Wolf. He lost to third seed and eventual champion Reilly Opelka in the quarterfinals. As a result he made his top 300 debut at world No. 286. In May, Brouwer reached his first Challenger final at the 2022 Tunis Open losing to Roberto Carballés Baena. Brouwer made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a qualifier. He rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Athanasios "Thanasi" Kokkinakis ( ; ; born 10 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 65 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 6 November 2023. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 15 attained on 21 November 2022 after winning the 2022 Australian Open and reaching the semifinals of the 2022 Miami Open with countryman Nick Kyrgios. Kokkinakis has also won one ATP Tour title in singles and produced his best Major singles performance by reaching the third rounds at the 2015, 2023, and 2024 French Open. As a junior, Kokkinakis was ranked as high as No. 10 in the world. He won one junior Grand Slam title, the doubles title at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships with partner Nick Kyrgios, and was the runner-up in two additional junior Grand Slam singles finals that same year. As a professional, Kokkinakis broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2015, during which he won one title on the ATP Challenger Tour and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Yibing
Wu Yibing (; ; born 14 October 1999) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Wu is the first Chinese player in the Open Era to reach and to win an ATP Tour-level singles final, doing so at the 2023 Dallas Open. He has been ranked as high as No. 54 by the ATP, which he first achieved on 29 May 2023, making him the third highest-ranked male Chinese player in history, behind Zhang Zhizhen and Shang Juncheng. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 295, achieved on 23 April 2018. He is currently the No. 6 Chinese player. Wu became the world No. 1 in the ITF Junior Circuit ranking after winning the boys' singles title at the 2017 US Open. Wu represented China at the 2017 Davis Cup, where he has a win/loss record of 1–0. He defeated Jason Jung in his first Davis Cup match. Juniors In December 2016, Wu reached the final of the 2016 Orange Bowl, a Grade-A junior event, losing to Miomir Kecmanović in the final. In 2017, Wu reached the semifinals in both bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Michelsen
Alex T. Michelsen (born August 25, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 32, achieved on March 3, 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 71, achieved on June 16, 2025. Junior career Michelsen won the singles and doubles title at the 2022 Easter Bowl, becoming the first American champion in both disciplines since Donald Young in 2006. He also won the 2022 Wimbledon Boys' doubles title with Sebastian Gorzny. He was committed to play college tennis at the University of Georgia, but then decided to turn pro. Professional career 2022: US Open doubles debut In August 2022, Michelsen made his Grand Slam doubles debut at the US Open playing alongside Sebastian Gorzny, losing in the first round. In November 2022, Michelsen won his first title on the ITF Tour in East Lansing. 2023: Turning Pro, ATP, Major & Top 100 debuts, First ATP final In February, Michelsen reached his first Challenger final in Rome, USA, losing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Pablo Varillas
Juan Pablo Varillas Patiño-Samudio (; born 6 October 1995) is a Peruvian professional tennis player. Varillas has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 60 achieved on 26 June 2023. He is currently the No. 2 Peruvian player. Varillas has won 7 ATP Challenger Tour, ATP Challenger and 5 International Tennis Federation, ITF singles titles. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 289 achieved on 10 May 2021. He has also won 4 ITF doubles titles. He has represented Peru Davis Cup team, Peru at the Davis Cup where he has a total W/L record of 16–15. In singles his W/L is 13–11. Career 2020–2021: ATP & Olympics debut Varillas made his ATP debut at the 2020 Chile Open as a lucky loser where he reached the second round by defeating Filip Horansky before losing to Albert Ramos Viñolas. The following year at the same 2021 Chile Open, tournament he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier where he lost to top seed and eventual wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mmoh
Michael Mmoh ( ; born January 10, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Mmoh has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 81 achieved on September 11, 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 265 achieved on April 12, 2021. He won the USTA junior national championship in 2016. Personal life Born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived until the age of 13, Mmoh has both Irish and Nigerian ancestry. Michael's father Tony Mmoh was also a professional tennis player who represented Nigeria and reached a career-high ranking of No.105. His mother was born in Ireland and is also an Australian citizen. Mmoh's parents named him after basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Mmoh began playing tennis at age 3. He trains at the IMG Academy in Florida. Mmoh married his girlfriend, Croatian tennis player and IMG Academy tennis instructor Klara Mrcela on September 9, 2024. The couple had been engaged two years prior in December of 2022. Junior career Mmoh peaked in the junior rankings at No. 2 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
