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5 Challenger gamers to observe on the US Open

Dwelling hope Tien begins towards Fils in #NextGenATP conflict

August 25, 2024

ATPTour.com appears to be like at 5 ATP Challenger Tour gamers to maintain your eyes on through the US Open.

Learner TienThe 18-year-old arrives at Flushing Meadows recent off a dream ATP Tour debut week, reaching the Winston-Salem quarter-finals as a qualifier. Eighth within the PIF ATP Dwell Race To Jeddah, Tien survived a marathon match finally month’s Bloomfield Hills Challenger, the place he wanted a deciding set in all 5 of his matches to carry the trophy.

Tien turned the Tenth-youngest American Challenger champion, becoming a member of the likes of Andy Roddick, Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe, whom the teenager misplaced to within the first spherical of the US Open final yr. The lefty will look to depend on his ultra-consistent baseline play to problem the world’s finest in his third consecutive US Open look. Within the first spherical, Tien faces fellow #NextGenATP star and twenty fourth seed Arthur Fils.

Mattia BellucciIt has been a red-hot previous month for the Italian inching nearer to his Prime 100 debut, presently World No. 101 within the PIF ATP Rankings. Bellucci made his first tour-level quarter-final in Atlanta and adopted that run by qualifying for Washington and reaching the second spherical. The 23-year-old held two championship factors on the ATP Challenger Tour 100 occasion in Cary, North Carolina, however fell to Roman Safiullin after almost three hours.

After qualifying for a 3rd consecutive main main-draw look, the lefty begins towards 2016 champion Stan Wawrinka.

BuyunchaoketeIn Might, the 22-year-old turned the youngest Chinese language participant to earn a number of ATP Challenger Tour titles. With title runs in Wuxi and Granby the previous three months, ‘Bu’ has climbed greater than 100 locations within the PIF ATP Rankings for the reason that first week of Might. The qualifier is now at a career-high World No. 123.

‘Bu’ has received 15 of his previous 17 matches throughout all ranges. The three-time ATP Challenger Tour champion faces eighth seed and 2022 finalist Casper Ruud within the opening spherical. This fortnight is Buyunchaokete’s first main important draw.

Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardThe monstrous-serving Frenchman used the ATP Challenger Tour as a springboard this season earlier than launching into the Prime 50 of the PIF ATP Rankings. Mpetshi Perricard collected three hard-court Challenger titles spanning from February via April after which triumphed at his residence ATP 250 in Lyon, the place he saved championship level towards Tomas Martin Etcheverry, his first-round opponent this week.

The six-foot-eight 21-year-old made a shock fourth-round run at Wimbledon as a fortunate loser, having begun that week by crushing 55 aces to upset twentieth seed Sebastian Korda. This fortnight, a possible conflict with fourth seed Alexander Zverev looms within the third spherical, however Mpetshi Perricard will likely be focussed on the duty at hand as he makes his US open main-draw debut.

Dominic StrickerInjuries have sadly sidelined the Swiss lefty from persistently competing in 2024, however now Stricker returns to the location the place he has fond recollections from final yr. Stricker produced fearless, heavy hitting to upset seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas as a qualifier en path to the fourth spherical in New York.

A semi-finalist finally yr’s Subsequent Gen ATP Finals introduced by PIF, the 22-year-old is taking part in in simply his ninth match of the season throughout all ranges. Stricker faces Argentine Francisco Comesana within the first spherical.