Kingston 2 Entry List: Frederico Ferreira Silva Leads a Wide-Open Hard-Court Challenger 75 Field
The ATP Challenger Tour heads to Kingston, Jamaica, for the Kingston Challenger 75, a hard-court event featuring a 32-player singles draw and $107,000 in prize money.
Frederico Ferreira Silva leads the entry list at No. 228, followed by Jay Clarke at No. 238, Andy Andrade at No. 251, and Harold Mayot at No. 255.
The tournament is scheduled for August 24-29 and is part of a back-to-back Challenger swing in Kingston.
Read on for the Kingston 2 entry list, beginning Aug 24, 2026.
Kingston 2 Entry List
Main Draw
| Rank | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 228 | Frederico Ferreira Silva | Portugal |
| 238 | Jay Clarke | Great Britain |
| 251 | Andy Andrade | Ecuador |
| 255 | Harold Mayot | France |
| 278 | Álvaro Guillén Meza | Ecuador |
| 293 | Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez | Mexico |
| 306 | Daniel Milavsky | USA |
| 310 | Igor Marcondes | Brazil |
| 320 | Tyler Zink | USA |
| 340 | Andres Martin | USA |
| 341 | Juan Pablo Ficovich | Argentina |
| 348 | Edward Winter | Australia |
| 349 | Mitchell Krueger | USA |
| 360 | Ivan Marrero Curbelo | Spain |
| 373 | Blaise Bicknell | Jamaica |
| 375 | Paul Jubb | Great Britain |
| 381 | Garrett Johns | USA |
| 394 | Andrew Fenty | USA |
| — | Gijs Brouwer | Netherlands |
| — | Guto Miguel | Brazil |
| — | Benjamin Willwerth | USA |
The remainder of the 32-player field will be filled by special exempts, wild cards, and qualifiers.
Qualifying
| Rank | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 482 | Karl Poling | USA |
| 493 | Miguel Tobon | Colombia |
| 527 | Paulo Andre Saraiva Dos Santos | Brazil |
| 530 | Timo Legout | France |
| 534 | Pietro Fellin | Italy |
| 542 | Kaylan Bigun | USA |
| 574 | Juan Sebastian Gomez | Colombia |
| 581 | Mario Gonzalez Fernandez | Spain |
| 584 | Aidan Kim | USA |
| 590 | Evan Zhu | USA |
| 591 | Romain Faucon | Belgium |
| 597 | Guillaume Dalmasso | France |
| 615 | Bruno Kuzuhara | USA |
| 622 | Alan Fernando Rubio Fierros | Mexico |
| 625 | Aidan Mayo | USA |
| 630 | Dan Martin | Canada |
| 631 | Strong Kirchheimer | USA |
| — | Lucas Andrade Da Silva | Brazil |
| — | Ronit Karki | USA |
| 635 | Conner Huertas del Pino | Peru |
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Tournament Notes
Kingston 2 is a Challenger 75 played on outdoor hard courts, with $107,000 in prize money. It follows the first Kingston Challenger, creating a two-week stop in Jamaica for players competing on the hard courts ahead of the North American swing.
The field is relatively open at the top. Ferreira Silva is the only player ranked inside the top 225, while 18 of the listed direct acceptances are ranked outside the top 300 or do not yet have a conventional ATP ranking.
That creates the possibility of a wide-open tournament once qualifying and the main draw are complete.
Three Kingston 2 Entry List Storylines to Watch
1. Frederico Ferreira Silva returns to hard courts
Ferreira Silva enters Kingston as the highest-ranked player, but his 2026 season has taken him on a long clay-court journey.
His best results came earlier in the year on hard courts. Ferreira Silva reached the Chennai Challenger final, beating Daniel Ajdukovic and Ilia Simakin before falling to Federico Agustin Gomez.
He also reached the semifinal at Oeiras 2, where he defeated Vilius Gaubas and Igor Gakhov. The ATP’s player activity confirms his heavy clay-court schedule since then, including his most recent run in Liberec.
Kingston therefore represents a return to the surface where Ferreira Silva produced some of his best tennis earlier this season.
The question is whether the No. 1 player on the entry list can immediately rediscover that hard-court form.
2. Kingston 2 Entry List reveals some dangerous sleepers
The rankings don’t tell the entire story in Kingston.
August Holmgren is one player whose statistical profile jumps off the page. He has won 65.8% of his service points and holds serve at an impressive 84.0% rate in the larger sample, despite a 21-19 match record in the recent-results data.
Tom Gentzsch has gone 30-16 in the results sample, while Clément Chidekh is 27-16 and Joel Schwaerzler is 26-16.
Those players aren’t sitting at the top of the entry list, but their recent results and underlying service numbers make them players worth watching when the draw is released.
Kingston could be one of those Challenger events where the eventual champion isn’t the highest-ranked player in the building.
3. The Americans are everywhere
The United States has a major presence in Kingston.
The main draw already includes Daniel Milavsky, Tyler Zink, Andres Martin, Mitchell Krueger, Garrett Johns, Andrew Fenty and Benjamin Willwerth.
Qualifying brings another wave of American players, including Karl Poling, Kaylan Bigun, Aidan Kim, Evan Zhu, Bruno Kuzuhara, Aidan Mayo and Strong Kirchheimer.
That gives the tournament a particularly strong American angle. Several of the younger players could also expand the U.S. contingent in the main draw if they survive qualifying.
The Bottom Line
Frederico Ferreira Silva leads a Kingston field that looks considerably more competitive than the rankings might suggest.
The Portuguese veteran has already shown he can make a deep run on hard courts this season, but he’ll have to transition back from a long stretch of clay-court tennis.
Behind him is a collection of experienced Challenger players, statistical sleepers and a deep American contingent.
With the qualifying rounds still to come and the draw yet to be determined, Kingston 2 looks like a tournament where the numbers could matter as much as the rankings.
Phil Naessens has spent decades in sports as a broadcaster, author, journalist, professional tennis coach, and betting analyst. As the founder and editor of Crush & Rush News and host of the Crush & Rush Tennis Podcast, he combines firsthand coaching experience with years of sports media and publishing to deliver thoughtful tennis analysis, tournament coverage, player features, and transparent betting insights built around value, and not hype.
