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\n What is the Dallas tennis draw?<\/p>\n
Americans Fritz, Shelton lead field at ATP 500<\/p>\n
February 07, 2026<\/p>\n
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Sam Hodde\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ben Shelton is seeded second this year in Dallas.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
A rematch of the Australian Open<\/a> showdown between Americans Sebastian Korda<\/a> and Michael Zheng<\/a> is among the highlights of the Nexo Dallas Open<\/a> draw, revealed on Saturday for the ATP 500 event. The winner of that matchup is seeded to meet another American, eighth Frances Tiafoe<\/a>, in the second round.<\/p>\n All of that action will take place in top seed Taylor Fritz<\/a>‘s quarter. The 28-year-old will open his Dallas campaign against countryman Marcos Giron<\/a>.<\/p>\n Second seed Ben Shelton<\/a> anchors the draw and, after an opening matchup with Gabriel Diallo<\/a>, could meet Montpellier finalist Adrian Mannarino<\/a> in the second round. 2024 Dallas champion Tommy Paul<\/a> and Jenson Brooksby<\/a> will also square off in another intriguing all-American matchup; both are potential quarter-final opponents for Fritz.<\/p>\n Third seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> will open against a qualifier in the bottom half, as will fourth seed Flavio Cobolli<\/a> in the Fritz’s top half.<\/p>\n Who are the seeds at the 2026 Nexo Dallas Open<\/a>?<\/p>\n Taylor Fritz<\/a> leads the field as the top seed, followed by second seed Ben Shelton<\/a>, third seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> and fourth seed Flavio Cobolli<\/a>. Rounding out the seeded players from five to eight are Tommy Paul<\/a>, Learner Tien<\/a>, Denis Shapovalov<\/a> and Frances Tiafoe<\/a>.<\/p>\n Who are the past champions in the Nexo Dallas Open<\/a> draw?<\/p>\n The ATP 500 event features three former champions: returning champ Denis Shapovalov<\/a>, 2024 winner Tommy Paul<\/a> and 2022 titlist Reilly Opelka<\/a>.<\/p>\n What are the first-round matches to watch at the Nexo Dallas Open<\/a>?<\/p>\n Sebastian Korda<\/a> faces Michael Zheng<\/a>, Learner Tien<\/a> meets Marin Cilic<\/a>, Grigor Dimitrov<\/a> plays Alex Michelsen<\/a> and Tommy Paul<\/a> takes on Jenson Brooksby<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas What is the Dallas tennis draw? Americans Fritz, Shelton lead field at ATP 500 February 07, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-460938","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\/460938","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=460938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}