After the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, the ball village has returned to the ATP Tour tournament. At the end of August, the last Grand Slam of the year is the US Open will officially start. Therefore, the current players are attending the tournaments running on the hard ground.
Exactly 1 week before the US Open, there will be another tournament for male players, Winston-Salem Open. This is a tournament in the ATP 250 category, held at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (USA).
In Winston-Salem Open, there will be 48 players participating in the competition. In particular, there are 16 players ranked seeds. All 16 seeds will be exempted from the first round. With the absence of no player in the top 10, Pablo Carreno Busta is ranked No. 1.
In addition, the tournament brings together many other prominent names such as former tennis players in the top 10 David Goffin and former US Open Marin Cilic. Richard Gasquet, Gilles Simon, Frances Tiafoe, Lorenzo Musetti, Emil Ruusuvuori, Carlos Alcaraz, Benoit Paire, Corentin Moutet and Alexander Bub are also notable faces.
Today 26/8, the third round of Winston-Salem Open 2021 will officially start. In particular, the focus will be the competition between the No. 1 seed Pablo Carreno Busta and the seed No. 16 Dominik Koepfer. The two players will face around 2:00 am.
In the remaining matches, Benoit Paire will meet Emil Ruusuvuori, Ilya Ivashka fight Jan-Lennard Struff while Daniel Evans encountered Richard Gasquet.
Tennis schedule today 26/8
