Tommy Paul First Dedication to 2025 US Clay
HOUSTON (November 21, 2024) – Tommy Paul has been introduced as the primary participant to decide to play the 2025 Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Males’s Clay Court docket Championship.
An Olympic medal winner for Workforce USA this summer season, Paul returns to Houston for the fourth time when he performs in the one ATP Tour clay court docket occasion in North America, which shall be held March 29-April 6 at River Oaks Nation Membership.
“We’re thrilled Tommy shall be coming again to Houston, particularly on the heels of his wonderful 2024 season,” mentioned Match Director Bronwyn Greer. “The curiosity since our 2024 last has actually been unprecedented, so we’re eagerly counting down the times till we will deliver everybody again collectively as soon as once more for one more match.”
Paul’s 2024 season was the very best of his profession, with three ATP Tour titles and a personal-best 45 match wins. He ended the season at his career-high rating of No. 12 after lifting the trophy at exhausting court docket occasions in Dallas and Stockholm whereas additionally claiming the title on grass courts at London’s Queen’s Membership.
The 27-year-old Paul added a runner-up end at Delray Seaside, semifinals at Masters 1000 occasions in Indian Wells and Rome and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
In his second look with Workforce USA on the Olympics, Paul teamed up with Taylor Fritz to say the doubles bronze medal in Paris whereas additionally reaching the singles quarterfinals.
Paul’s 2023 season that was highlighted by finals at Acapulco and Eastbourne together with semifinal appearances on the Australian Open and Masters 1000 in Toronto.
In 2016, Paul made his US Clay debut and earned his first-ever ATP Tour match win. He’s twice reached the Spherical of 16 in his three earlier appearances at River Oaks.
That ATP breakthrough got here lower than a 12 months after a sensational junior marketing campaign in 2015 that included the French Open title and a runner-up end on the US Open whereas reaching No. 3 within the rankings.
Born in New Jersey, Paul grew up taking part in on clay courts in North Carolina.
Based in 1910, the 2025 U.S. Males’s Clay Court docket Championship would be the 89th match hosted by River Oaks Nation Membership. In 2024, Ben Shelton defeated Frances Tiafoe in an all-American singles last whereas the Australian duo of Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson gained their second straight doubles title.
