2025 Entry List Revealed

The initial singles player list for the 2025 Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship has been released and among the 19 players are 11 who have won a combined 31 ATP Tour titles.
 
“There is always a wave of excitement that comes with receiving the player list for the tournament, and this year is no exception,” said Tournament Director Bronwyn Greer. “We’re looking forward to welcoming this talented group of players and all of our fans to River Oaks at the end of this month.”
 
The highest ranked entrants are No. 11 Tommy Paul and No. 17 Frances Tiafoe, and they are among the eight Americans in the field for the March 29-April 6 tournament at River Oaks Country Club.
 
Tiafoe, the 2023 champion and 2024 runner-up, is one of four players in the field who have reached the US Clay final. He’s joined by 2022 winner Reilly Opelka and past finalists Tomas Martin Etcheverry (2023) and Kei Nishikori (2011).
 
Nishikori, who owns 12 titles from 27 finals, has been ranked as high as No. 4 in world. He’ll be making his first appearance at River Oaks since that run to the 2011 final.
 
A trio of young Americans in the field are rising in the rankings, and each has established a career high this week. Alex Michelsen, 20, has reached three finals in his career and is up to No. 32. One spot behind him is Brandon Nakashima, a 23-year-old who just reached the 100-match win milestone during a run to the semifinals last week in Acapulco. The third is the field’s only teenager, 19-year-old Learner Tien, the 2024 ATP Next Gen finalist who owns a pair of wins over Top 5 opponents already this season.
 
Nakashima, who earned ACC Freshman of the Year honors during his time at the University of Virginia, is one of six former college players in the field. He’s joined by Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech), Marcos Giron(UCLA), Rinky Hijikata (North Carolina), Aleksandar Kovacevic (Illinois) and Adam Walton (Tennessee).
 
Kovacevic is one of three players to have reached a final already this season, having achieved his first career runner-up finish at Montpellier. Opelka opened the season with a final in Brisbane, defeating Novak Djokovic enroute to the title match, while Nishikori was finalist in the season-opening event in Hong Kong.
 
We’ll be welcoming three players to River Oaks for the first time: Tien, Walton and 20-year-old Juncheng Shang.
 
Here is a look at the initial entry list for the 2025 Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship:

*entry with injury protected ranking

The field will grow between now and first ball, with at least two wild card entrants to be revealed, three special entry spots to be filled, and four players will be added through the two-round qualifying tournament that will take place March 29-30.