The 2023 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships (also known as the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships for sponsorship purposes) was a

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tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 53rd edition of the

U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships The U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships is an annual ATP Tour tennis tournament that started in 1910. It is the last remaining ATP World Tour-level tournament in the United States to be played on clay courts. The tournament began in 1910 when the ...

, and an

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event on the

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. It took place at

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, United States from April 3 through 9, 2023.

Champions

Singles

Frances Tiafoe Frances Tiafoe Jr. ( ; born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has ranked Tiafoe as high as world No. 17 in singles, on October 10, 2022, and world No. 160 in doubles, on No ...

def.

Tomás Martín Etcheverry Tomás Martín Etcheverry (born 18 July 1999) is an Argentine tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 72, achieved on 25 July 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 241, achieved on 28 Febru ...

, 7–6^(7–1), 7–6^(8–6)

Doubles

Max Purcell Max Purcell (born 3 April 1998) is an Australian professional tennis player. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships in doubles alongside Matthew Ebden. The pair also finished runners-up at the 2022 Australian Ope ...

/ Jordan Thompson def.

Julian Cash Julian Cash (born 29 August 1996) is a British tennis player. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 65 achieved on 9 January 2023. He also has a career high singles ranking of 786 achieved on 1 August 2022. Cash has won ten ATP Challenge ...

Henry Patten Henry Patten (born 6 May 1996) is a British tennis player. Patten has a career high ATP singles ranking of 462 achieved on 19 September 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 64 achieved on 9 January 2023. Patten has won ten ATP Cha ...

, 4–6, 6–4, 0–5

Point and prize money

Point

Prize money

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Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

*Rankings are as of 20 March 2023.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Steve Johnson *

Jack Sock Jack Sock (born September 24, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. He has won four career ATP singles titles and 17 doubles titles, and has career-high rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 20 November 2017) and world No. 2 in dou ...

Fernando Verdasco Fernando Verdasco Carmona (; born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7, achieved in April 2009. His best performance in a Grand Slam was making the semifinals of the 2009 ...

The following players received entry via the qualifying draw: *

Yannick Hanfmann Yannick Hanfmann (born 13 November 1991) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 92, first achieved in May 2021. He is known for his powerful serves (up to 143 mph) and groundstrokes. H ...

Tomáš Macháč Tomáš Macháč (; born 13 October 2000) is a Czech professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 97 on 12 December 2022 and doubles ranking of world No. 427 on 1 Au ...

Aleksandar Vukic Aleksandar Vukic (, , ; born 6 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player. Vukic has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 117 achieved on 28 February 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 394 ...

Yosuke Watanuki is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 138 achieved on 9 January 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 374 achieved on 7 January 2019. He is currently the No. 3 Japanese player. Juniors On the junior tour, Wata ...

The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Zizou Bergs Zizou Bergs (born 3 June 1999) is a Belgian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 128 achieved on 26 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 449 achieved on 25 Octob ...

Withdrawals

Filip Krajinović Filip Krajinović (, ; born 27 February 1992) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 on 23 April 2018.

→ replaced by

Gijs Brouwer Gijs Brouwer (born 14 March 1996) is an American-born Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 20 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 Aug ...

Adrian Mannarino Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title at the 2019 Rosmalen Open on grass. He is c ...

→ replaced by Aleksandar Kovacevic *

Brandon Nakashima Brandon Nakashima (born August 3, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 43 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved on 17 October 2022. On the same day, he ...

→ replaced by

Wu Yibing Wu Yibing (; ; born 14 October 1999) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 58, achieved on 13 February 2023, and a doubles ranking of No. 295, achieved on 23 April 2018. He is the first Chinese man ...

→ replaced by

Daniel Altmaier Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifi ...

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of 20 March 2023

Other entrants

The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: *

William Blumberg William Blumberg (born January 26, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. A former college player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Blumberg has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 74 achieved on September 12, ...

Christian Harrison Christian Harrison (born May 29, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 198 achieved on 2 July 2018 and a doubles ranking of world No. 162 achieved on 26 August 2013. He is the younger brother ...

Hunter Reese Hunter Reese (born January 11, 1993) is an American tennis player. Reese currently competes in doubles mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has won 10 Challenger titles and has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 73 achieved on 27 June 2022. ...

Reese Stalder Reese Stalder (born 12 November 1996) is an American tennis player. Stalder has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 956 achieved on 28 June 2021. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 63 achieved on 16 October 2023. He has won ei ...

Withdrawals

Cristian Garín Cristian Ignacio Garín Medone (; born 30 May 1996) is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in singles, which he first achieved on 13 September 2021, a ...

/ Emilio Gómez → replaced by

Hugo Dellien Hugo Dellien Jr. (; born 16 June 1993) is a Bolivian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 70 achieved on 25 July 2022. He is the current No. 1 Bolivian tennis player. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ...

/ Emilio Gómez

References

External links

Official website
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