The 21st century
United States · born 1997 · right-handed · Queen's champion 2024
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Grass title, Queen's 2024
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Best Wimbledon result, 2024
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Grass finals, 2023 to 2026
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Straight match wins at Queen's, 2024 to 2026
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Career-high ATP ranking, June 2025
Born on 17 May 1997, Paul won the 2015 French Open boys' title, beating Taylor Fritz in the final, and lost the US Open boys' final to Fritz that September. His first ATP title came in Stockholm in 2021. In 2023 he reached the Australian Open semi-finals, the first American man to do so since Andy Roddick in 2009, and in 2024 he won Queen's and took Olympic bronze in the men's doubles with Fritz in Paris. He entered the top 10 in January 2025, reached the French Open quarter-finals and rose to No. 8, and in 2026 won his first clay title in Houston, his fifth overall. On grass in 2026 he reached a second Queen's final and the Wimbledon third round.
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-final 2024, lost to Carlos Alcaraz 7-5, 4-6, 2-6, 2-6; fourth round 2022, beat JiĆĂ VeselĂœ, lost to Cameron Norrie; third round 2023, lost to JiĆĂ LeheÄka in five sets, and 2026, lost to Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-7 (5), 5-7, 2-6; second round 2025, lost to Sebastian Ofner |
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| Grass titles | Queen's 2024 as fifth seed, beating SebastiĂĄn BĂĄez, Alejandro Tabilo, Jack Draper and Sebastian Korda, then Lorenzo Musetti 6-1, 7-6 (8) in the final |
| Grass finals lost | Eastbourne 2023, to Francisco CerĂșndolo 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, hours after his semi-final; Queen's 2026, to CerĂșndolo 7-6 (4), 4-6, 3-6 in 3 hours 2 minutes |
| Other grass events | Queen's quarter-final 2022, beating Denis Shapovalov and Stan Wawrinka; Eastbourne quarter-final 2022, beating the second seed Jannik Sinner; Queen's 2026 quarter-final win over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 7-6 (4) |
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| 2024 | Men's singles | |
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Roland Garros 2015 · Boys' final
Unusually for an American, he grew up preferring clay. He won his first five Futures titles on it and the 2015 French Open boys' title, beating Taylor Fritz in the final, only the second American boy to win it since John McEnroe. Fritz beat him in the US Open boys' final that autumn; nine years later they won Olympic bronze together in doubles.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2023
Rain pushed the semi-finals back, and on the Saturday he beat GrĂ©goire BarrĂšre 6-4, 6-3 and then played the final the same afternoon. In blustery wind, which his opponent Francisco CerĂșndolo called super windy, he took the second set 6-1 but lost the third 6-4, his first defeat in a grass final.
Source: ATP TourQueen's 2024 · Final
Seeded fifth, he beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-1, 7-6 (8) for his third ATP title, his first on grass and his first at ATP 500 level. "Hearing about the names in the locker room, it is unbelievable," he said. The win moved him past Taylor Fritz to become American No. 1 for the first time.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2024 · Quarter-final
On Court One he took the first set from the defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 7-5 and led 2-0 in the second, drawing applause for his shot-making. He saved 19 break points but lost serve eight times, and Alcaraz won 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Alcaraz said that early on it had felt like playing on clay.
Source: The StarQueen's 2026 · Final
Injury had kept him from defending his title in 2025, and he returned to win four more matches, stretching his run at Queen's to nine. In the final he won the first-set tie-break against Francisco CerĂșndolo and saved three match points at 2-5 in the third, but lost after 3 hours 2 minutes. CerĂșndolo became the first Argentine to win Queen's.
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