{"id":409310,"date":"2026-01-14T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409310\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:50:12","slug":"dallas-open-announces-player-field-including-fritz-shelton-paul-ruud-dimitrov-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409310\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Open Announces Player Field, Including Fritz, Shelton, Paul, Ruud, Dimitrov \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0newly renamed Nexo Dallas Open\u00a0announced the official player field for the 2026 ATP Tour 500 tournament, scheduled for\u00a0February 7\u201315, 2026, at\u00a0Ford Center at The Star\u00a0in Frisco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 main draw includes seven top-25 players, including the top three American men and rising 20-year-old Learner Tien, as well as Casper Ruud, last year\u2019s runner-up, and Denis Shapovalov, the defending champion who defeated Fritz, Paul and Ruud en route to the title.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of current players, per the tournament\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-1024x760.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59836\"  data-\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0newly renamed Nexo Dallas Open\u00a0announced the official player field for the 2026 ATP Tour 500 tournament, scheduled for\u00a0February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-409310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}