Match Report
\n Paul wins final-set tie-break to claim Dallas thriller <\/p>\n
Quinn continues good start to the season<\/p>\n
February 11, 2026<\/p>\n
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Tommy Paul won the title in Dallas in 2024.
\n By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n
Former Nexo Dallas Open<\/a> champion Tommy Paul<\/a> was pushed to the brink in his opener on Wednesday, but he found a way past the 2022 finalist Jenson Brooksby<\/a> to reach the second round at the ATP 500.<\/p>\n In a two-hour, 25-minute battle, Paul overcame American countryman Brooksby 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(4). The fifth seed struck 18 winners off his forehand and was impressive behind his first serve in the third set, winning 21 of 23 points.<\/p>\n “I feel like he can put the ball all over the court and can make you move around so much,” Paul said. “I like to feel that I move well, so I make it tough for him to end points. I was holding a lot easier than I normally do against Jenson and the first set and a half was way quicker than normal, so it was a little bit different. I was happy to get through it.”<\/p>\n Paul, who reached the fourth round at the Australian Open<\/a> last month, lifted the trophy at the tournament in 2024 when it was still an ATP 250, before he enjoyed a semi-final run last season. The 28-year-old leads Brooksby 3-1 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series and will next meet Miomir Kecmanovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n American Ethan Quinn<\/a> defeated wild card Trevor Svajda<\/a> 7-6(3), 7-5 to reach the second round in Dallas. Quinn advanced to the third round at the Australian Open<\/a> last month and earned a dramatic win in the first round of the Davis Cup Qualifiers on clay on Saturday against Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan<\/a>. Paul also recorded a victory in the same tie for the United States in Hungary.<\/p>\n Playing with confidence, the No. 74 player in the PIF ATP Rankings rallied from a break down in the first set and won 87 per cent (41\/47) of his first-serve points against Svajda, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to triumph after one hour and 47 minutes. Quinn will play Marin Cilic<\/a> in the second round. The Croatian claimed his 600th tour-level victory on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Paul wins final-set tie-break to claim Dallas thriller Quinn continues good start to the season February…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-463289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}