Tuesday, 9 April 2019

ATP Houston begins

On Monday 8 April, the main draw matches in two ATP tournaments began, one in the USA, the other in Morocco.


Faye’s Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship - an ATP 250 category tournament, on Red Clay, in Houston, Texas, USA, 8-14 April 2019.

Defending champion:

Steve Johnson (6) who defeated Tennys Sandgren (8) 7-6(2) 2-6 6-4


The following players withdrew after entering but before the main draw was published:


- John Isner replaced by Marcel Granollers 

- Nick Kyrgios replaced by Paolo Lorenzi 

- Yoshihito Nishioka replaced by Casper Ruud 


Steve Johnson, world number 39, is top seed.

The other 7 seeds are all in the top 71

The top 4 seeds have first round byes.


Early first round results 

- Casper Ruud defeated Hugo Dellien 7-6(7) 6-4

- Marcel Granollers defeated Taylor Fritz (5) 6-2 4-6 6-2

- Ryan Harrison defeated Ivo Karlovic 6-3 6-4

- Christian Garin defeated Pablo Cuevas 4-6 6-4 6-2

- Bernard Tomic defeated Denis Kudla 7-6(8) 7-5

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