{"id":789272,"date":"2026-07-28T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:31:36","slug":"on-tap-12-americans-headline-dc-open-mens-singles-draw-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789272\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tap: 12 Americans Headline DC Open Men\u2019s Singles Draw \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top American men will battle for supremacy at the DC Open, where Frances Tiafoes hopes to shine on his hometown stage next week.<\/p>\n

Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz, Learner Tien, and Frances Tiafoe are among the eight seeds in this year\u2019s DC Open draw, while four more Americans \u2013 Alex Michelsen, Brandon Nakashima, Tommy Paul also feature in the stacked 32-player field. <\/p>\n

Joining them are three qualifiers and two lucky losers \u2013 Martin Damm (LL), Andres Martin, Trevor Svajda, Zachary Svajda (LL) and Marcos Giron.<\/p>\n

See the full draw here (we\u2019ll update after qualifiers are placed this evening)<\/p>\n

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In addition to the Americans, fans can look forward to seeing plenty of big names on the men\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Alex de Minaur is the top seed, Roland Garros semifinalists Jakub Mensik (seeded seventh) and Matteo Arnaldi are in the mix along with Lorenzo Musetti (seeded fourth); former champion Kei Nishikori will make his last appearance as a wild card and Arthur Fils and Rafael Jodar will face each other in a high-powered first-round clash of rising talents.<\/p>\n

First-Rounders to Watch:<\/p>\n

Tennis Express<\/p>\n

Grass-Court RacquetsThe frames the pros swing<\/p>\n

Shop racquets \u2192<\/a>[1] Alex de Minaur vs Stefanos Tsitisipas[3] Taylor Fritz vs Zizou BergsAlex Michelsen vs Jack Draper[8] Arthur Fils vs Rafael Jodar[WC] Kei Nishikori vs Shang Juncheng[6] Frances Tiafoe vs Terence Atmane<\/p>\n

Main draw action kicks off on Monday.<\/p>\n

Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top American men will battle for supremacy at the DC Open, where Frances Tiafoes hopes to shine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-789272","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\/789272","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=789272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}