Tournament recap
🇺🇸Winston-Salem Open 2026
Who the crowd backed, who let them down, and how the field scored.
The players
🇫🇷 L. van Assche
9% of the brackets that named a champion picked them.
🇨🇿 V. Kopriva
8% had them lifting the trophy. They went out in R64.
🇵🇪 I. Buse
Their wins paid out 12,072 points across every bracket in the draw.
🇨🇿 T. Machac
Named in 150 picks, across 62 brackets.
Counts every round, so deep runs inflate this.
🇮🇳 D. Suresh
Just 0% of the 50 brackets that picked their opening match backed them — the lowest in the draw.
How the field did
36%
1,660 of 4,659 picks called correctly.
27 of 47
matches ended with the most-picked player losing — 57% of the tournament.
Semifinal
4% accuracy, against a 14% median across all rounds.
20 of 47
A bracket built from the majority pick in every match would have beaten 86% of the 104 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
🇮🇳 D. Suresh def. 🇺🇸 M. Giron
R64 — 0 of the 50 brackets that picked this match called it.
🇮🇳 D. Suresh def. 🇺🇸 M. Giron
100% of the 50 brackets that picked this match had M. Giron winning it.
The people
- 🥇matiducos2,640
- 🥈hard_jamie322,342
- 🥉casey_point2,079
5
of the 102 brackets that named a champion had I. Buse winning the title.
sam23
12 of 16 correct in R64.