In the return of the North American contest to the circuit after two years absent due to the pandemic, the Chilean and the Norwegian will start as the main favorites to repeat the final of the year 2019, which was Garín’s first title as a professional.
After a couple of seasons without dispute due to the costly consequences of the pandemic of the COVID-19, the tournament Houston will once again bring together an excellent list of players for his return to the circuit 2022/01/australian-open-2022-whos-who-in-the-djokovic-case/” title=”Australian Open 2022: Who's Who in the 'Djokovic Case'”>ATP in this 2022. According to the journalist Michal Samulski in your account Twitter, the first names confirmed for this edition of this event on brick dust are: Cristian Garín, Casper Ruud, John Isner, Taylor Fritz, Jenson Brooksby, Sam Querrey, Reilly Opelka Y Frances Tiafoe.
Multiple champions and runners-up in the draw
The tournament, which as is now tradition, will open the spring clay court tour (it will take place from 2 al 10 April), you can count on the current champion (Garin) and runner-up (Ruud). Both disputed a hard-fought final three seasons ago that ended in the hands of the Chilean, who thus inaugurated his record of titles ATP.
In addition to these two men, other figures who left their mark on this tournament are the North Americans John Isner Y Sam Querrey. The first has to his credit a title (2013 vs Nicholas Almagro) and a final (2012 vs John Monaco) and always tends to do very well on local soil, regardless of the surface. Querrey, for his part, was also left with honey on his lips twice, since he gave up in the match for the title in both 2010 (vs Juan Ignacio Chela) like in 2015 (vs Jack Sock).
The list of local tennis players is completed by Fritz (current number one in the country), Tiafoe, the promising Brooksby and the other great giant of the circuit: Opelka and his 2,11 meters high. Of all of them, only Fritz can boast of having reached the semi-finals. did it in 2018, when he fell to the eventual champion, his compatriot Steve Johnson.
The player with the most titles in this tournament is the American Andy Roddick. The former world number one triumphed in the years 2001, 2002 and 2005. The Spanish Ferdinand Verdasco (2014) Y Marcel Granollers (2008) are the only tennis players in the ‘Armada‘ in the list of champions of the same.
