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Washington singles draw revealed

Shelton, Korda, Tiafoe amongst dwelling favourites at ATP 500

July 27, 2024

Editor’s Observe: This story initially appeared on MubadalaCitiOpen.com.

Each the lads’s and ladies’s singles attracts have been revealed and the itinerary for the fifty fifth version of Mubadala Citi DC Open is beginning to take form.

Whereas qualifying rounds will probably be accomplished over the weekend, main-draw play begins Monday with a number of headliners and Grand Slam champions set to usher in a busy week of competitors.

Shelton, Korda & Tiafoe Amongst American Headliners In Males’s Draw
On the ATP Tour aspect, the highest 16 seeds within the 48-player discipline all acquired first-round byes. Andrey Rublev returns to Washington for his fourth profession look and his second because the match’s high seed. American Ben Shelton anchors the underside half of the draw because the second seed.

Rublev is a two-time D.C. semi-finalist and will face native hero Frances Tiafoe within the quarter-finals. Tiafoe, who made his professional debut on these grounds 10 years in the past, has reached the D.C. quarters in every of the previous two years earlier than falling to the eventual match champ. The highest quarter of the draw additionally features a first-round match between 2022 D.C. finalist Yoshihito Nishioka and American Aleksandar Kovacevic.

Ought to the seeds maintain, fourth seed Sebastian Korda and seventh seed Jordan Thompson might meet within the quarter-finals, whereas third seed Karen Khachanov and eighth seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina are additionally positioned to fulfill within the final eight.

Shelton, Korda and Tiafoe are amongst 5 American seeds to obtain a first-round bye. The others embrace thirteenth seed Brandon Nakashima and fifteenth seed Alex Michelsen. All will probably be vying to turn out to be the primary American males’s singles champion in D.C. since Andy Roddick received the Washington crown in 2007.

Michelson, 19, turned professional final summer time and arrives in D.C. contemporary off a remaining look earlier this month in Newport. The #NextGenATP star will face both a qualifier or 2021 D.C. finalist Mackenzie McDonald in his opening match in Rock Creek Park.

Shelton and Nakashima are joined within the backside quarter of the draw by sixth seed Adrian Mannarino and twelfth seed Miomir Kecmanovic, plus wild playing cards Denis Shapovalov and J.J. Wolf.

Sabalenka, Kasatkina, Samsonova & Jabeur Headline Ladies’s Draw
Within the girls’s draw, two-time defending Australian Open champion and World No. 3 Aryna Sabalenka is the highest seed, whereas World No. 12 Daria Kasatkina anchors the underside half of the draw because the second seed. The highest 4 seeds within the girls’s draw all acquired first-round byes with 2022 D.C. champion Liudmila Samsonova and three-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur rounding out the quartet.

Sabalenka returns to Washington for the primary time since 2017 and will meet former World No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka within the quarter-finals. Karolina Pliskova — one other former World No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam finalist — additionally looms within the high quarter of the draw.

Jabeur will open her 2024 account in opposition to both D.C. native Robin Montgomery or Shelby Rogers. Montgomery, 19, acquired a wild card and is ready to compete in the primary draw of her hometown match for the primary time. Jabeur and Montgomery met for the primary time at Wimbledon this month, with Jabeur prevailing of their second-round match.

Samsonova headlines a loaded quarter with a second-round match looming in opposition to both American and 2020 Australian Open champ Sofia Kenin or wild card Paula Badosa. If the seeds maintain, Samsonova might face eighth seed Elise Mertens within the quarter-finals. Mertens will probably be examined in her first-round match as she faces wild card and 2021 US Open champ Emma Raducanu.

D.C. native Clervie Ngounoue can be in Samsonova’s quarter and can make her Washington main-draw debut in opposition to Peyton Stearns in an all-American first-round showdown.

Kasatkina and seventh seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova headline the underside quarter of the draw. Sloane Stephens, who captured her maiden WTA title in Washington in 2015, additionally lurks in Kasatkina’s quarter. Stephens is making her file twelfth profession look within the girls’s draw.