Tournament recap
🇺🇸U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships 2026
Who the crowd backed, who let them down, and how the field scored.
The players
🇺🇸 T. Paul
Their wins paid out 1,219 points across every bracket in the draw.
🇦🇷 T. M. Etcheverry
Named in 37 picks, across 29 brackets.
Counts every round, so deep runs inflate this.
🇦🇷 F. A. Gomez
Just 30% of the 40 brackets that picked their opening match backed them — the lowest in the draw.
How the field did
52%
261 of 498 picks called correctly.
15 of 27
matches went against the crowd's majority pick — 56% of the tournament.
Semifinal
20% accuracy, against a 33% median across all rounds.
12 of 27
A bracket built from the majority pick in every match would have beaten 98% of the 41 real entries.
The crowd's bracket is complete; most real entries are not.
Accuracy falls with every round by design — calling a quarterfinal means having had the winner survive three earlier matches first. Compare a round against the same round elsewhere, not against the one before it.
The matches that did the damage
🇦🇷 R. A. Burruchaga def. 🇦🇷 T. A. Tirante
Semifinal — 0 of the 2 brackets that picked this match called it.
The people
1
of the 3 brackets that named a champion had T. Paul winning the title.
royal38
11 of 12 correct in R32.