Welcome to the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon, where we recognise outstanding players and tournaments. Vote for your favourite players now and come back 16 October to view the nominees for the player-voted categories. Voting for the ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon closes at 11.59pm GMT on Monday, 6 November. [AWARD GROUP POLL]78[/AWARD GROUP POLL] Note: Fans' Favourite candidates are the Top 25 players in the Emirates ATP Race To London and Top 15 teams in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London as of 11 September 2017. ** If you have already cast your vote, you have the option to change your selection through the dropdown menu during the four-week...
Two former Shanghai Rolex Masters finalists will get their 2017 campaigns underway in China on Monday. Juan Martin del Potro, the No. 16 seed, returns to Shanghai facing a first-round encounter against qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili. Del Potro, who beat Rafael Nadal on his way to the 2013 final, has a tough opponent in the 25-year-old Georgian, who reached the final in Memphis earlier this season. The ninth seed, Roberto Bautista Agut, who upset then-No. 1 Novak Djokovic en route to last year’s final in Shanghai, will begin his attempt at a repeat run when he plays #NextGenATP Hyeon Chung. The Spaniard, who lost in his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final last year against Andy Murray, is seeking his...
When it came to making moves in his professional career, Ben Mclachlan was ready to go the distance -- literally. Mclachlan began 2017 as a 200-ranked doubles specialist, and as a New Zealander. On Sunday, with Her Imperial Highness Princess Mako of Japan looking on, he lifted the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2017 doubles crown -- as a Japanese player. So how does one go about playing for a different country almost overnight and, more importantly, why? Mclachlan grew up in New Zealand, spent summers in Japan and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in the U.S. -- all by the age of 22. The doubles specialist claims ties to Japan through his mother, and possesses a...
The #NextGenATP wave is getting bigger and bigger and Lloyd Harris is looking to put South Africa on the map among the stars of tomorrow. The 20 year old battled through to the semi-finals this past week at the Kaohsiung OEC Open in Taiwan, winning four of five tie-breaks over four matches to equal his best result on the ATP Challenger Tour. Harris’s impressive 2017 campaign has seen him compete at all three tiers of competition. Contending at ITF Futures events at the start of the season, the Cape Town native eventually transitioned to the ATP Challenger Tour as a regular competitor before making his ATP World Tour debut at the inaugural Antalya Open as a lucky loser. Just inside...
One word can sum up the reason why everything appears to be clicking for Filip Krajinovic... Belief. Krajinovic will step back into familiar territory as he re-enters the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings for the first time since May 2016, after clinching the title at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Saturday. The 25 year old is projected to leap past his previous career-high of No. 86 to No. 79. “I believed that to break back into the Top 100 was possible, but I was not sure if I was going to be able to do that," Krajinovic said. "Now, all of a sudden, I won one tournament from the qualifiers, then I started to play better....