Denis Shapovalov headlined a group of 16 players to qualify at the US Open on Friday, continuing his dominant run of form with a 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-3 victory over Jan Satral.

Shapovalov will make his US Open debut on the heels of an ATP Challenger Tour title in Gatineau and semi-final run at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal, where he became the youngest player to reach the last four of an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event. The 18-year-old Canadian has now won 15 of his last 17 matches in total and will look to extend the run against fellow #NextGenATP Daniil Medvedev in the first round.

“I got fired up after I lost the first set,” Shapovalov told ATPWorldTour.com. “It really motivated me and it helped me with my confidence. I raised my level from there and was playing some good tennis in the second and third sets.

“It feels incredible. I dream to play in these big tournaments, so to be able to qualify for one of the Grand Slams is a really big privilege for me.”

A trio of Americans earned main draw berths on Friday. Veteran Tim Smyczek will make his fifth main draw appearance in six years at Flushing Meadows, defeating Peter Polansky 6-3, 6-4. Chicago native Evan King qualified for his first Grand Slam main draw at the age of 25, stunning Michael Mmoh 6-3, 6-3. King had earned his first ATP World Tour match win in Los Cabos earlier this month. University of Virginia standout JC Aragone turned in the Cinderella performance of the qualifying competition, claiming three three-set victories in his tour-level debut. He defeated Akira Santillan 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 on Friday.

All three Americans will be made to work in the first round of main draw play, with Smyczek opening against 17th seed Sam Querrey, King facing 12th seed Pablo Carreno Busta and Aragone battling 28th seed Kevin Anderson.

In other action, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe will make his first appearance in a Grand Slam since the 2013 Australian Open, continuing his impressive comeback to the tour. He ousted Alejandro Gonzalez 6-2, 6-4 in 74 minutes. The World No. 106 is on the brink of returning to the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings for the first time in five years. He opens against Nicolas Kicker of Argentina.

Stebe is coming off an ATP Challenger Tour crown in Vancouver on Sunday and is joined by another recent titlist, Binghamton champ Cameron Norrie, in qualifying for the last Grand Slam of the year. Norrie did not drop a set all week in booking his US Open debut, sealing it with a 6-1, 7-6(5) win over Go Soeda. Dmitry Tursunov awaits in the first round.

Nicolas Mahut will appear in his seventh consecutive US Open main draw and 12th overall, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6(6), 3-6, 6-0. The 2015 doubles champion, with Pierre-Hugues Herbert, will battle Marton Fucsovics in the first round.

Other qualifiers include Maximilian Marterer, Radu Albot, Vaclav Safranek, Mikhail Kukushkin, Stefano Travaglia, Adrian Menendez-Maceiras, Vincent Millot, John-Patrick Smith and Darian King. King will be the first player from Barbados to compete in a Grand Slam. Fourth seed Alexander Zverev is his first round opponent.

Despite falling to Marterer, top seed Leonardo Mayer earned a spot in the main draw as a lucky loser. He opens against 26th seed Richard Gasquet.

Top seed Roberto Bautista Agut reached his second consecutive Winston-Salem Open final on Friday, beating German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals.

Bautista Agut broke four times and especially took advantage of Struff’s second serve, winning 72 per cent (26/36) of those points. The German was playing in his first semi-final since 2014 Metz.

“I’m so happy to be in the final again. Today I played a very good match. It’s been a great week for me,” Bautista Agut said.

The Spaniard fell in last year’s title match to countryman Pablo Carreno Busta. He will go for his second title of the season (Chennai, d. Medvedev) and the sixth of his career against first-time finalist Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia-Herzogovina, who came back to beat Brit Kyle Edmund 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and 53 minutes.

Dzumhur is the first player from Bosnia-Herzogovina to reach an ATP World Tour final. Last week, he reached the final at the clay-court ATP Challenger Tour event in Santo Domingo (l. to Estrella Burgos). Saturday’s final will mark his 11^th match in the past 12 days.

“It’s going to be a big thing for me, for my coutnry, as the only player in the Top 100 making great results. I think everybody in Bosnia is still awake and watching me, which makes me really proud for my country,” Dzumhur said.

“For such a small country as Bosnia, it’s a really big result, and for all the country, what we went through the past 20 years. So I’m proud of my country and proud of myself and it’s going to be a good day tomorrow.”

Second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau completed a near perfect run through the Winston-Salem Open on Friday, beating Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4 to capture their third doubles title as a team this season.

The Dutchman/Romanian pairing have now won 15 team crowns, and they sprinted through the Winston-Salem draw. Rojer/Tecau dropped only 19 games this week. To make the title even more special, Rojer celebrated his 36^th birthday on Friday.

“It’s a nice birthday gift of course. But I was not going to let that result determine if I have a good day or not. I was going to enjoy it anyways, and I’m just happier, of course, that we won,” Rojer said. “We had a good week and did a lot of good things in preparation for New York.”

They won 89 per cent of their first-serve points and saved both break points in the final. Rojer/Tecau will receive 250 Emirates ATP Rankings doubles points and split $36,630 in prize money.

“Every tournament that you win, it’s special… We really had a good time. Tough conditions. There were some hot days, some humid days, and we managed to play some good tennis in those conditions, and it’s another great week for us,” Tecau said.

Peralta/Zeballos were going for their fifth team doubles title. They will receive 150 Emirates ATP Rankings doubles points and split $19,260 in prize money.

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal has been drawn in the same half of the US Open draw as Roger Federer, who, alongside Andy Murray, could rise to the top of the Emirates ATP Rankings after the conclusion of the final Grand Slam championship of the year. The draw ceremony took part at the US Open Experience in the Seaport District of Manhattan on Friday.

Two-time former champion Nadal could meet Grigor Dimitrov, the recent Western & Southern Open titlist, or David Goffin in the quarter-finals prior to a semi-final showdown against Federer, who is bidding to capture his sixth US Open crown. Nadal and Federer have never met at the US Open, and while Nadal leads 23-14 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series, Federer has won their past four clashes – including three hard-court meetings in 2017 at the Australian Open, the BNP Paribas Open and the Miami Open presented by Itau.

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Top seed Nadal, who has a 46-10 record in New York City, including the 2010 and 2013 crowns, will face Serbian’s Dusan Lajovic in the first set and could potentially face No. 26 seed Richard Gasquet in the third round and No. 15 seed Tomas Berdych in the fourth round. The Spanish superstar, who picked up his 15th Grand Slam championship trophy at Roland Garros in June, has an ATP World Tour leading 49-9 record on the season.

Third seed Federer, who competes in the Big Apple for the first time since 2015 when he lost to Novak Djokovic in the final, plays #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe in the first round. Nick Kyrgios, the recent Cincinnati runner-up and No. 14 seed, or No. 17 seed Sam Querrey, enjoying a career-best year, pose a threat in the fourth round. Sixth seed Dominic Thiem, who opens against wild card Alex de Minaur, or No. 24 seed and 2009 titlist Juan Martin del Potro could be a potential quarter-final opponent for Federer.

The Swiss superstar, who has the best winning percentage on hard courts (23-2, .920) this year of any player according to the FedEx ATP Performance Zone, is seeking to lift a third major trophy this year to add to his Australian Open and Wimbledon runs. If he does so on 10 September, it would mark Federer’s 20th Grand Slam championship crown.

Second seed Andy Murray, who captured the 2012 title (d. Djokovic), will be competing for the first time since a Wimbledon quarter-final exit to Sam Querrey. Murray, who is 44-11 overall at the final major of the year, faces Tennys Sandgren first up, while No. 16 seed Lucas Pouille or a resurgent No. 21 seed David Ferrer may be a potential fourth round opponent. Eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the 2011, 2015-16 quarter-finalist, who meets Marius Copil in the fourth round, could pose a threat to Murray in the last eight.

Fourth seed Alexander Zverev, the first player to qualify for the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan from 7-11 November, starts against a qualifier and may face No. 28 seed Kevin Anderson in the third round. Jack Sock, the No. 13 seed, who reached the Last 16 in 2016, will be hoping to continue a strong season that includes two ATP World Tour titles. The American or No. 19 seed Gilles Muller could face Zverev, a winner of two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns in 2017, in the fourth round. Fifth seed Marin Cilic, the 2014 titlist with a 27-7 record in New York City, also features in Zverev’s quarter of the draw and takes on Gilles Simon in the first round.

Cameron Norrie is a man on a mission this week at US Open qualifying. The Brit has not dropped a set en route to the final round and is now one win from making his US Open debut.

At No. 226 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, Norrie is showing he belongs among the game’s best. But this is far from a surprise considering his near-perfect run of form leading up to the last Grand Slam of the year.

Norrie is one of many players carrying successful summer hard-court swings on the ATP Challenger Tour into Flushing Meadows. A maiden title in nearby Binghamton and subsequent semi-final finish in Lexington have fueled the former Texas Christian University standout.

“I beat some great players in Binghamton and it ensured me that I’m at this level,” Norrie told ATPWorldTour.com. “I just got out of college at the start of the summer and it’s nice to know I can play with these boys. I played in Binghamton and Lexington which were really hot conditions, so it’s perfect preparation. I feel in good shape to get through.”

Under the tutelage of coach Facundo Lugones, Norrie has translated his success on the Challenger circuit to the hard courts of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. He faces Go Soeda in the final round of qualifying on Friday, following a pair of straight-set wins over Alexander Bublik and Sekou Bangoura.

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Norrie isn’t the only player riding momentum from Challenger titles to US Open qualifying. #NextGenATP Aussie Akira Santillan is on a tear since lifting his first trophy in Winnetka last month, proceeding to claim his first ATP World Tour match wins in Newport and Los Cabos. A spot in his first Grand Slam main draw will be on the line when he faces American wild card JC Aragone on Friday, having battled past Sebastian Ofner and Uladzimir Ignatik.

Evan King and #NextGenATP Michael Mmoh are leading the American charge at their home Grand Slam. King is enjoying a breakthrough run to the final round of qualifying after years of battling on the ATP Challenger Tour. He enters on the heels of back-to-back quarter-finals in Floridablanca and Santo Domingo and a first ATP World Tour match win in Los Cabos.

Mmoh, meanwhile, is cruising towards the main draw, having dropped just eight combined games through his first two matches. The 19 year old is riding a seven-match win streak after clinching his second ATP Challenger Tour title earlier this month in Lexington. Mmoh and King will face off on Friday with a coveted main draw berth on the line.

“I’m over the moon,” said King. “I’ve been on a roll this summer and I’m glad to stay true to form. I won a match at an ATP (in Los Cabos) and then reached the quarter-finals at two straight Challengers, so it showed me that I can compete at this level. Those are the guys that are playing here in qualies. It’s just about getting wins and feeling comfortable. I’m playing at the US Open but I’m not overthinking the situation. It’s just another tennis match.”

“The win in Lexington was huge for me,” Mmoh added. “It’s one of the few times that I’ve won a ton of matches going into a Slam. Especially at this level, it’s key going into the week. When I was struggling earlier in the year, I was over-analyzing things, so I settled down in Lexington and just had fun. I’m going to stick to that.”

Other recent ATP Challenger Tour titlists into the final round of qualifying include Sergiy Stakhovsky, champion in Portoroz, Slovenia earlier this month, and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, winner in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday. Learn more about Stebe’s inspirational story.

Canadian teen Denis Shapovalov has become a household name following his fairytale ATP World Tour Masters 1000 run to the Montreal semi-finals and second Challenger title in nearby Gatineau. But keep an eye on countryman Peter Polansky as well. The 29 year old is bidding to reach his third US Open main draw after streaking to three consecutive finals on home soil, in Winnipeg, Gatineau and Granby.

Despite failing to win a title, Polansky believes the matches and experience gained from those tournaments are greatly beneficial to a strong run in New York.

“It really helps, because I was under pressure many times during those three weeks,” said Polansky. “I think playing a lot of matches recently helps with that. Keeping the nerves loose on the big points and playing some really big shots on those important points. It all has to do with being comfortable being in that moment. Sometimes when you’re low on match play, you get to big moments and the racquet slows down. I’m playing aggressive and playing to win.”

Shapovalov will face Jan Satral in the final round of qualifying, while Polansky battles familiar foe Tim Smyczek. This is their sixth FedEx ATP Head2Head clash and third at the tour-level. Most recently, Polansky prevailed at the Rogers Cup in Toronto in 2016 and Smyczek got his revenge in Delray Beach qualifying earlier this year.

Denis Shapovalov is hurtling towards his main draw debut at the US Open, blasting into the final round of qualifying with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Gastao Elias.

The atmosphere on Court 11 was electric as the World No. 69 fought back from a break deficit in the second set to claim victory over the Portuguese in just 72 minutes. Fresh off his dream run to the Coupe Rogers semi-finals, the 18-year-old Canadian is looking to further build on his career-high position in the Emirates ATP Rankings at the final Grand Slam of the year.

“He started playing more aggressive and went for his shots [in the second set],” Shapovalov told ATPWorldTour.com. “It was a little tough to get back on track, but I did a good job to fight back. I’ve been in these situations a lot this year, so it’s just another match. Luckily I’ve been finding it within myself to try to pull those matches out and it’s going well.

“I feel lucky to be outside my country and have so many people to support me. And in such a great city like New York it’s so much fun to be out here. Hopefully the fans will come out again and take me as far as I can go.”

Shapovalov will face Jan Satral of the Czech Republic on Friday, with a berth in the main draw on the line. Satral, who reached the second round as a qualifier last year, defeated American Mackenzie McDonald 6-4, 6-3.

Fans on Court 13 were treated to arguably the match of the day between #NextGenATP stars Stefanos Tsitsipas and Matteo Berrettini. Tsitsipas fought back from a set down to claim a 6-7(6), 7-6(4), 7-6(2) victory in two hours and 44 minutes. Berrettini denied four match points from 0/40 down at 5-4 in the decider, but could not stave off a fifth in the ensuing tie-break.

“I felt really bad when I lost those four match points,” said Tsitsipas. “But I knew that if I stopped playing, all my effort from these three sets would be gone. There was no reason to stop fighting. I still managed to keep my serve in the next game. Mentally it was really tough but I’ve been through this before and I realized how I needed to handle the situation.”

Tsitsipas joins American Michael Mmoh, Australia’s Akira Santillan and Shapovalov as the quartet of #NextGenATP to advance on Thursday. The Greek 19-year-old will face Nicolas Mahut, while Mmoh battles countryman Evan King and Santillan duels with University of Virginia standout JC Aragone.

American wild cards King and Aragone have shocked the field in reaching the third round in their Grand Slam qualifying debuts. The home hopes both fought back from a set down to prevail, with King defeating Renzo Olivo 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 and Aragone overcoming Riccardo Bellotti 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. King claimed his first ATP World Tour match win earlier this month in Los Cabos, while Aragone is making his tour-level debut. They join Mmoh, Tim Smyczek and Mitchell Krueger as American winners on Thursday.

“I don’t know how many US Opens I’ve played, but this is by far the most support I’ve gotten. I really like playing in front of the crowd” said Krueger, a 7-5, 6-4 winner over Egor Gerasimov. “I’ve put myself in the best position I can. I have one goal this tournament and I need one more win.”

Krueger will bid to make his main draw debut when he faces Australia’s John-Patrick Smith, who defeated Filip Krajinovic 6-4, 6-4 earlier in the day. The Fort Worth, Texas native owns a 3-1 FedEx ATP Head2Head edge, with all meetings having come on the ATP Challenger Tour.

Two players looking to qualify after enjoying great ATP Challenger Tour success in the month of August are Cameron Norrie and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe. Norrie notched his maiden title in nearby Binghamton, New York, while Stebe is coming off a victory in Vancouver on Sunday. Norrie will face Japanese veteran Go Soeda, while Stebe takes on Alejandro Gonzalez of Colombia.

Meanwhile, top seed Leonardo Mayer is flying high after claiming his second ATP World Tour title in Hamburg last month. The Argentine extended his win streak to seven straight, having dropped a combined 11 games to reach the final round of qualifying. He cruised past Gleb Sakharov 6-2, 6-1 on Thursday, converting four of 16 break chances. Germany’s Maximilian Marterer awaits next.