With the Australian Open now done and dusted for another year, the world’s best tennis players head for the ATP Dallas 2025, where a star-studded field has been assembled for the only indoor hard-court competition to take place in the United States.
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The main draw will feature 32 players, and while there will be no room for Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev or Daniil Medvedev, there is still plenty for racquet lovers to look forward to.
World number four Taylor Fritz is the headline act on home soil while three-time Grand Slam runner-up Casper Ruud and defending champion Tommy Paul are also in attendance.
Throw in the presence of recent Australian Open semi-finalist Ben Shelton, fans favourite Frances Tiafoe and up-and-coming talent Alex Michelsen, and it promises to be a competition full of intrigue and quality.
ATP Dallas 2025: Fantastic Fritz
Four of the last seven winners in Dallas have been American players and Fritz will be hoping he can live up to his billing as top seed and enhance that record. Fritz didn’t play in this tournament last season but he was a semi-finalist in 2023, going down to eventual champion Wu Yibing, while he suffered a shock quarter-final exit to Marcos Giron the previous year.
But having made his maiden Grand Slam final at last season’s US Open, Fritz is at his most complete as a player right now and he will be keen to put his third-round exit to Gael Monfils in Melbourne firmly behind him. If on-song and fully wound-up, it would take an almighty performance to deny the big-serving Californian, who ought to thrive under these quick conditions.
ATP Dallas 2025: Super Shelton
While Fritz is the highest-ranked American player in the field and recent Australian Open quarter-finalist Paul is the defending champion, Shelton has every right to believe he is the leading hope of the home challengers.
That is because Shelton went one better than Paul, making the Australian Open semi-finals, while he also reached the final four of the US Open in 2023 to suggest that he could soon have some lofty targets in front of him. The 22-year-old is without doubt one of the most talented youngsters on the ATP Tour, having risen to world number 14, and it won’t be too long before he is securing his third piece of career silverware.
ATP Dallas 2025: Stars and Stripes
Two American players who are likely to fly under the radar in the market but shouldn’t be ignored are Giron and Reilly Opelka. World number 45 Giron faced an impossible task in his Australian Open third-round defeat to eventual champion Sinner but he was runner-up to Paul in Dallas last season and was also a semi-finalist in 2022.
All three of Giron’s final runs on the ATP Tour have come in his homeland, as he claimed his maiden title on the grass at the Hall of Fame Open in July last year. Opelka, meanwhile, was crowned champion in Dallas in 2019 and 2022, so relishes the conditions of this event. The 27-year-old enjoyed a return to form when finishing runner-up at the Brisbane International at the beginning of January, a competition in which he upset Djokovic in the quarter-finals.
By Adam Scriven
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