The US Open Qualifying Tournament gets underway this morning at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as 128 men will compete for the final 16 main draw spots. Matches will begin each day at 11:00 a.m. in Flushing Meadows, concluding on Friday.Notables entered in the qualifying field include 2004 Olympics singles gold medalist Nicolas Massu (pictured), former Wimbledon semifinalist Xavier Malisse, teenage sensation Kei Nishikori, and Benjamin Becker, the young German who ended Andre Agassi’s career at the 2006 U.S. Open. Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine is the top seed.
The 16 players that make it through qualifying by winning three matches will be put into the 128 player main draw, which will also be released on Friday. The main draw begins on Monday, Aug. 25.
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