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US Men's Clay Court Championship 2026

Men's Singles

Level: ATP 250
Where: Houston, USA
Surface: Clay
Dates: 30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026

Champion

🇺🇸Tommy Paul 4th seed

R16Vallejo3-6 6-4 6-4
QFEtcheverry6-4 6-2
SFTiafoe7-5 4-6 7-6(7)
FinalBurruchaga6-1 3-6 7-5

4 wins, 3 sets dropped. Paul’s run, match by match

The title paid

250ranking points

$106,460 prize money

Runner-up

🇦🇷Roman Andres Burruchaga

165 pts

2025 champion

Jenson Brooksby — out in the last 32

The week in numbers

28-player draw · 27 matches played

5/8

top-8 seeds reached the quarter-finals

13

matches went to a deciding set

of 27 played

35

games in the longest match

Paul d. Tiafoe, SF

8

sets decided by a tiebreak

14

home players in the draw

of 28

Final four

Semi-final6-1 6-1🇦🇷R. Burruchaga🇦🇷T. Tirante Semi-final7-5 4-6 7-6(7)🇺🇸T. Paul(4)🇺🇸F. Tiafoe(2)

Final6-1 3-6 7-5🇺🇸T. Paul(4)🇦🇷R. Burruchaga

What each round was worth

and who took it

ResultPointsReached byPrize

Champion
250pts$106.5K
Tommy Paul(4)
Runner-up
165pts$62.1K
Roman Andres Burruchaga
Semifinal
100pts$36.5K
F. Tiafoe(2), T. Tirante
Quarterfinal
50pts$21.2K
B. Shelton(1), L. Tien(3), T. Etcheverry(6), A. Popyrin
Round of 16
25pts$12.3K
8 players — incl. seeds 5, 7

Past champions

2025
Jenson Brooksby · d. Frances Tiafoe
2024
Ben Shelton · d. Frances Tiafoe

Full draw How the 8 seeds fared All 27 matches

All 27 matches, round by round

Final

Tommy Paul def. Roman Andres Burruchaga6-1 3-6 7-5

Semifinals

Roman Andres Burruchaga def. Thiago Agustin Tirante6-1 6-1
Tommy Paul def. Frances Tiafoe7-5 4-6 7-6(7)

Quarterfinals

Frances Tiafoe def. Alexei Popyrin3-6 6-4 7-6(6)
Roman Andres Burruchaga def. Learner Tien7-5 6-4
Thiago Agustin Tirante def. Ben Shelton6-7(5) 6-3 6-4
Tommy Paul def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry6-4 6-2

Round of 16

Ben Shelton def. Zhizhen Zhang7-6(5) 7-6(3)
Thiago Agustin Tirante def. Mackenzie Mcdonald6-2 6-0
Tomas Martin Etcheverry def. Alex Bolt6-7(5) 6-0 6-3
Tommy Paul def. Adolfo Daniel Vallejo3-6 6-4 6-4
Alexei Popyrin def. Alex Michelsen6-0 4-6 6-1
Frances Tiafoe def. Rinky Hijikata6-4 3-6 6-2
Learner Tien def. Nishesh Basavareddy6-3 3-6 6-1
Roman Andres Burruchaga def. Brandon Nakashima6-4 2-6 6-4

Round of 32

Adolfo Daniel Vallejo def. Zachary Svajda6-1 6-4
Alex Bolt def. Yibing Wu7-6(6) 6-2
Mackenzie Mcdonald def. Jenson Brooksby6-4 6-2
Thiago Agustin Tirante def. Colton Smith6-0 6-3
Zhizhen Zhang def. Jack Pinnington Jones6-1 6-3
Alex Michelsen def. Chak Lam Coleman Wong6-4 6-2
Alexei Popyrin def. Patrick Kypson4-6 6-4 6-3
Brandon Nakashima def. Martin Damm7-6(0) 6-2
Nishesh Basavareddy def. Liam Draxl6-3 2-6 6-4
Rinky Hijikata def. Aleksandar Kovacevic6-4 6-2
Tomas Martin Etcheverry def. Federico Agustin Gomez1-6 6-1 6-4
Roman Andres Burruchaga def. Adam Walton6-2 6-3