By Tennis Now | @TennisNow | Monday, January 27, 2025
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Rising American stars will journey successful waves into Delray Seaside.
Australian Open breakout stars Learner Tien and Nishesh Basavareddy are set to play the Delray Seaside Open qualifying occasion as a part of Opening Weekend February 7-9 on the Delray Seaside Stadium & Tennis Heart, the event introduced.
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4 gamers will advance from the qualifying draw to the ATP 250 most important draw occasion that takes place February 10-Sixteenth.
Tickets can be found at DelrayBeachOpen.com
Tien and Basavareddy, two 19-year-old People, electrified followers on the season’s first Grand Slam.
The left-handed Tien received three qualifying matches to achieve the principle draw, then received three extra matches, together with a win over No. 5 Daniil Medvedev in a fifth-set tiebreak, to turn into the youngest man to achieve the Australian Open fourth spherical since Rafael Nadal in 2005. Basavareddy earned a wild card into his first Grand Slam most important draw, then received his first Grand Slam set towards 10-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic earlier than falling in 4 units.
Tien, who completed third on the 2021 USTA Nationwide Clay Court docket Boys’ 18 Championships in Delray Seaside, will climb roughly 40 spots to crack the world’s High 100 for the primary time subsequent week at a projected No. 80. Basavareddy is on the doorstep at the moment at a career-high No. 107.
They are going to be making an attempt to hitch fellow People Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul within the Delray Seaside Open most important draw. Fritz, world-ranked No. 4, is the two-time defending champion, and final 12 months’s runner-up Paul will make his debut on this planet’s High 10 rankings subsequent week after reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals. View the preliminary most important draw entry record right here.
Different gamers well-known to Delray Seaside tennis followers who will compete within the DBO qualifying rounds embody 2023 Wimbledon quarterfinalist Christopher Eubanks and two-time Delray Seaside Open semifinalist Mackenzie McDonald.
2025 Delray Seaside Open qualifying discipline by the numbers to date (two wild playing cards nonetheless to be added to the sector):
3 ATP Tour title winners (Christopher Eubanks, Yibing Wu, Taro Daniel)
5 earlier Delray Seaside Open most important draw gamers (Christopher Eubanks, Mackenzie McDonald, Aleksandar Kovacevic, Taro Daniel, Mitchell Krueger)
4 gamers who received matches at 2025 Australian Open (Learner Tien, Tristan Boyer, Mitchell Krueger, James Duckworth)
1 NCAA singles champion (Mackenzie McDonald, UCLA, 2016)
7 People (Christopher Eubanks, Nishesh Basavareddy, Aleksandar Kovacevic, Learner Tien, Mackenzie McDonald, Tristan Boyer, Mitchell Krueger)
5 gamers age 25 or youthful (Youngest – Learner Tien, 19)
3 gamers age 30 or older (Oldest – James Duckworth, 33)
