April 20, 2026

Open Court

MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

In Houston, the start of the main draw in both singles and doubles. And Jenson Brooksby, who is the defending champion (in case your memory isn’t that long) found his title defence ended in the first round.

In Marrakech, the end of the qualifying and the start of the main draw; Montreal’s Taha Baadi, who now represents Morocco, won his first career ATP Tour main-draw match.

And in Bucharest, where rain completely washed out play on the first day of qualifying Sunday, was feature doubleheaders for all the winners – except rain intervened.

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Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship
Location: Houston, Texas
Category: ATP 250 
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Dates:  March 30 – April 5, 2026
Prize Money: $700,045
Draws: S28 – D16

Monday, March 30, 2026
Final results

Singles, first round

Mackenzie McDonald (USA) def [8] Jenson Brooksby (USA) 64 62

[Q] Alex Bolt (AUS) def Yibing Wu (CHN) 76 (6) 62

Tiago Agustin Tirante (ARG) def [WC] Colton Smith (USA) 60 63

Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (PAR) def Zachary Svajda (USA) 61 64

[WC] Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) def. [Q] Jack Pinnington Jones (GBR)  61 63

Doubles, final results

[2] Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) / Fernando Romboli (BRA) def Alex Michelsen / Learner Tien (USA) 46 63 [13-11]

[3] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) / Robert Galloway (USA) def Arthur Reymond / Luca Sanchez (FRA) 64 64

[WC] Andres Andrade (ECU) / Ben Shelton (USA) def Benjamin Kittay / Rajeev Ram (USA) 76 (3) 64  

Rinky Hijikata (AUS) / Ryan Seggerman (USA) def John Peers (AUS) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 36 63 [10-2]

 

 

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Tiriac Open
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Category: ATP 250 
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Dates:  March 31 – April 6, 2025
Prize Money: €596,035
Draws: S28 – D16

Monday, March 30, 2026
Final results

Rain came later and prevented three of the four final-round qualifying matches from being completed. But at least they got the first round done.

 

Qualifying, final round

[1] Nikoloz Basilasvili (GEO) def [7] Jurij Rodionov (AUT) 64 06 63 

 

[2] Daniel Merida (ESP) vs [6] Joel Schwaerzler (AUT)  

[8] Jay Clarke (GBR) vs Alex Molcan (SVK) 

Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) vs Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE)

Qualifying, first round

Alex Molcan (SVK) def [3] Billy Harris (GBR) 61 76 (3)

Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE) def [4] Chun-Hsin Tseng (TPE) 64 63

Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) def [5] Stefano Travaglia (ITA) 76 (0) 61

[1] Nikoloz Basilasvili (GEO) def. Daniel Michalski (POL) 64 75

[2] Daniel Merida (ESP) def. [ALT] Saba Purseladze (GEO) 61 62

[6] Joel Schwaerzler (AUT) def [WC} Stefan Horia Haita (ROU) 63 36 76 (0)

[7] Jurij Rodionov (AUT) def George Loffhagen (GBR) 46 76 (5) 62

[8] Jay Clarke (GBR) def [WC] Gabriel Ghetu (ROU) 64 63  

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Grand Prix Hassan II
Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Category: ATP 250 
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Dates:  March 30 – April 5, 2026
Prize Money: €612,620
Draws: S28 – D16

Monday, March 30, 2026
Final results

Singles, first round

[WC] Taha Baadi (TUN) def Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) 62 36 61

[8] Yannick Hanfmann (GER) def Jesper de Jong (NED) 76 (6) 64

[WC] Karim Bennani (MAR) def Quentin Halys (FRA) 64 67 (5) 62

Qualifying, final round

(1st-round opponents in brackets)

[2] Dusan Lajovic (SRB) def [7] Lloyd Harris (RSA) 64 64 (Rafael Jodar)

[4] Henrique Rocha (POR) def [5] Nicolai Budkov Kjaer (NOR) 61 62 ([Q] Marco Trungelliti)

Timofey Skatov (KAZ) def [6] Moez Echargui (TUN) 63 63 (Camilo Ugo Carabelli)

[1] Marco Trungelliti (ARG) def [8] Rei Sakomoto (JPN) 76 (8) 64 ([Q] Henrique Rocha)

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