Rafael Nadal makes his return to the tour in Washington this week ahead of a history-making two weeks in New York.
The top seed will enter the Citi Open next week playing his first tournament since losing in the Roland Garros semi-finals to Novak Djokovic.
Nadal leads the field as he prepares for a crucial few weeks coming up with history awaiting at the US Open.
Heading into the tournament at Flushing Meadows, Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are all level at 20 grand slams.
With Federer still recovering from his knee injury and Djokovic looking exhausted from his Olympic bid, Nadal will look to capitalise on a golden opportunity to get in-front in the race to being the greatest of all time.
In Washington, Nadal will begin his campaign against either Jack Sock or Yoshihito Nishioka.
A potential third round meeting with Lloyd Harris could await while Nadal could face 7th seed and in-form Cameron Norrie in the last eight.
Norrie is coming off of a title in Los Cabos having won the third most matches this season behind Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev.
Also in the Spaniard’s half is Grigor Dimitrov, Nick Kyrgios, Benoit Paire, Taylor Fritz and Dan Evans.
In the bottom half of the draw Felix Auger-Aliassime will face Andreas Seppi or a qualifier in the opening round.
The Canadian is also projected to meet Frances Tiafoe and Reilly Opelka en route to the semi-finals.
The likes of Jannik Sinner, Sebastian Korda and Alex De Minaur are also in Auger-Aliassime’s half of the draw
Play starts on Monday with Nadal’s opening match set to take place on Wednesday night local time.
