Watch highlights as Kyle Edmund beats fellow NextGen star Ernesto Escobedo to advance to the second round in Brisbane. Photo: Peter Staples/ATP World Tour. Video courtesy Tennis Australia. Video not available in Australia.
Next November, the ATP World Tour’s brightest young stars will take the stage in Milan for the Next Gen ATP Finals. Billed as the ‘Next Generation’ during the campaign launch this past March in Indian Wells, this group of players unleashed their potential in 2016. In total, 22 players aged 21 and under finished in the Top 200 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, including eight inside the Top 100. Continuing our season in review series, we look back on the 2016 campaigns of the top NextGen players. [ALSO LIKE] No. 13 Nick Kyrgios (21 years, 7 months) The Australian clinched a trio of titles in 2016 to place fifth among tour leaders behind Andy Murray (9), Novak Djokovic (7), Dominic...
Who will prevail as NextGen stars and fans go head-to-head in a Pokemon Go battle in Cincinnati Starring Nick Kyrgios, Sascha Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Borna Coric and Kyle Edmund.
#NextGen Kyle Edmund squeaked by Ukrainian Illya Marchenko 7-6(7), 7-6(5) during his European Open debut on Tuesday in Antwerp. The 21-year-old Brit won 67 per cent of his service points and benefitted from 13 Marchenko double faults. Edmund, who's playing at a career-high No. 43 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, will next play second seed David Ferrer, who received a first-round bye. [ALSO LIKE] Argentine Diego Schwartzman survived a tight contest as well, beating seventh seed Nicolas Mahut 7-6(2), 7-5. Schwartzman converted all four of his break points and will play #NextGen star Taylor Fritz or Belgian wild card Joris De Loore in the second round. Romanian qualifier Marius Copil recorded only his fourth tour-level match win of the season...