Who’s enjoying in Hamburg? Zverev, Auger-Aliassime, Shelton amongst High-10 stars on entry listing

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Who’s enjoying in Hamburg? Zverev, Auger-Aliassime, Shelton amongst High-10 stars on entry listing

Musetti, Fonseca to compete, Rune makes comeback at ATP 500

April 22, 2026

Hometown favorite Alexander Zverev spearheads a quartet of High-10 stars on the entry listing for the 2026 Bitpanda Hamburg Open, to be held from 17 to 23 Might.

The No. 3 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings is chasing his second title on the clay ATP 500 after he turned the primary German males’s singles titlist in Hamburg for 30 years in 2023. Nonetheless, three of Zverev’s present High-10 rivals are additionally set to compete on the Hamburger Rothenbaum: No. 5 Felix Auger-Aliassime, No. 6 Ben Shelton and No. 9 Lorenzo Musetti.

Auger-Aliassime reached the semi-finals in Hamburg in 2025, whereas occasion debutant Shelton will arrive having not too long ago turn out to be an ATP 500 champion on clay for the primary time: The American triumphed at one other German match, the BMW Open by Bitpanda in Munich, final week.

Musetti, who overcame Carlos Alcaraz to carry the Hamburg trophy in 2022, will be a part of Zverev and 2025 winner Flavio Cobolli as the one former champions on this 12 months’s discipline.

As in 2025, the Hamburg occasion might be held the week earlier than the ATP Tour’s most interesting head to Roland Garros in pursuit of Grand Slam glory. Among the many different stars aiming to chase clay-court success in northern Germany forward of the clay main in Paris are High-20 stars Jiri Lehecka, Karen Khachanov, Valentin Vacherot, Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe and Francisco Cerundolo.

In the meantime two former High-10 gamers will goal to place latest harm struggles behind them on the Hamburg clay. Holger Rune has entered, aiming to make his comeback after not competing for greater than six months resulting from an Achilles harm. Jack Draper, who’s lacking the ATP Masters 1000 occasions in Madrid and Rome resulting from a knee harm, can be on the entry listing.

Brazilian Joao Fonseca, who reached the quarter-finals in Munich, is ready for his Hamburg debut, whereas Jan-Lennard Struff and #NextGenATP Justin Engel are among the many German hopes on the entry listing alongside Zverev.

The entry listing was introduced on Wednesday at an immersive press convention, that includes pictures of the match like by no means seen earlier than, with the entry listing introduced on 10-metre partitions surrounding all the museum room.

The match may also function an even bigger fan zone and a brand new unique VIP area – The Gamers Sky Lounge – the place company will benefit from the match from the gamers’ lounge with privileged court docket views and proximity to the gamers.