Fritz, Paul Round out Top Seeds at Delray Beach Open

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday February 7, 2023

The eight seeded gamers for the Delray Seaside Open are set with world No. 8 Taylor Fritz topping the listing.

Major draw play for the ATP Tour 250 occasion is Feb. 13-19 at Delray Seaside. The event is the primary North American laborious courtroom occasion of the outside season, and certainly one of simply 10 ATP Tour occasions in the US.

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Following high seed Fritz is fellow American Tommy Paul, third seed Canadian Denis Shapovalov and fourth seed Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia. The highest 4 seeds obtain first-round byes within the 28-player event.

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Fritz, showing in Delray Seaside for a sixth time, is presently the top-ranked American. He beat Rafael Nadal to seize the ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells title and once more on the year-end ATP Finals, selecting up two extra titles in between.

25-year-old Palm Seaside County resident Paul outperformed Fritz (and all different American males) at this 12 months’s Australian Open, nonetheless. He reached the semifinals on the 12 months’s first Main on the Australian Open final month with wins over fellow Delray Seaside individuals Ben Shelton and Jenson Brooksby, cracking the world’s Prime 20 rankings for the primary time at No. 19 within the course of.

Final 12 months, Paul entered the Delray Seaside Open as a wild card and reached the semifinals.

Third-seeded Shapovalov and fourth-seeded Kecmanovic spherical out the highest quartet.

Rounding out the eight seeds – all of whom are ranked within the Prime 40 – are fifth seed Yoshihito Nishioka, the 2020 runner-up; sixth-seed Brooksby, who defeated Australian Open second seed Casper Ruud final month; seventh-seed Jiri Lehecka who reached the Australian Open quarterfinals in simply his fifth look at a Grand Slam primary draw; and eighth-seeded John Isner, who’s the all-time ATP Tour ace chief and holds the Delray Seaside Open document of 30 aces in a match.