Five top ten players at the Mexican Open Tennis.

The 31st edition of the Mexican Open Tennis will feature 20 players who are within the top 20 of the ATP world ranking, so from February 26 to March 2, 2024, Acapulco will have a highly competitive tournament.

Five racquet players who are now within the top ten will compete in this ATP 500, and they are Danish Holger Rune (4), Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), American Taylor Fritz (8), Norwegian Casper Ruud (9), and German Alexander Zverev (10). While the racquet players who are within the top 20 are American Frances Tiafoe (11), American Tommy Paul (13), Italian Lorenzo Musetti (18), Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (19), and the young American promise Ben Shelton (20).

"It is an unprecedented initial list for the tournament, which shows how well these top 20 players feel accompanying us, and we hope that the general public will see the effort that Mextenis makes to bring the best names that currently exist in the world ranking," said Álvaro Falla, CEO of Mextenis.

The Mexican Open Tennis in Acapulco will now be held one week after the Los Cabos Open, so the organizers feel that the players will take both tournaments to get into a good rhythm towards the Indian Wells event.

"Many tennis players will try to take advantage of both tournaments and will seek to stop by Mexico in preparation for Indian Wells, considering that the points and the prize money they offer are not minor matters," Falla mentioned.

Rune, 20 years old, reached his highest ranking in August of this year and has four titles, one in 2023 in Munich and three in 2022, including the Masters 1000 in Paris, Stockholm, and Munich.

Meanwhile, Tsitsipas, 25 years old, boasts 10 titles in his career and the latest was the one he captured in August in Los Cabos, while Fritz, 25 years old, has eight titles, two of them in 2023 after winning Atlanta and Delray Beach.

Ruud has 10 titles, one in 2023 in Estoril. The Norwegian has already played three Grand Slam finals, two of them on the clay of Roland Garros, his favorite surface. Finally, Alexander Zverev returned to the Top 10 after winning two titles in 2023, one in Hamburg and another in Chengdu.

The organizing committee indicated that regarding the participation of Mexicans in the tournament, Rodrigo Pacheco and Ernesto Escobedo will be invited to participate in both Los Cabos and Acapulco.

"We hope to have the opportunity for seven Mexicans, in both singles and doubles categories, to participate in the tournament, just as it happened in the previous edition of Los Cabos," Álvaro mentioned.

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