The excitement is building in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan as the ATP World Tour’s budding stars make their final efforts in the last week of the Race at the Swiss Indoors Basel and the Erste Banke Open 500 in Vienna, with four qualifying spots remaining. Basel is the hot spot for those who have not yet qualified for the inaugural Next Gen ATP finals. Five #NextGenATP players looking to add their name to the Milan mix are competing in the event. The toughest task may go to American Frances Tiafoe, who enters Basel in ninth place in the Race, 110 points behind No. 7 Daniil Medvedev. The Top 7 in the Race qualify, with an eighth spot going...
Karen Khachanov will compete at the Next Gen ATP Finals next month, joining fellow Russian Andrey Rublev and Alexander Zverev of Germany at the inaugural event, to be held 7-11 November in Milan. Khachanov qualified based on results at ATP World Tour 250 events on Thursday. Buy Tickets Now The 20-year-old Moscow native has received rave reviews from the tennis world this year, his second season on the ATP World Tour. The 6'6” right-hander has reminded longtime tennis fans and pundits of another big-hitting and quick-moving Russian, 6'4” Marat Safin, who reached No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings and won 15 tour-level titles before retiring in November 2009. Khachanov celebrated his first ATP World Tour title more than a...
Andrey Rublev joined Alexander Zverev on Monday as the only two players who have qualified for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 7-11 November in Milan. “I'm really happy and I'm really excited to play in Milan,” said Rublev. “I did hard work this year and I've had some great results. So I'm really excited to play Milan.” The 19-year-old Moscow native has enjoyed a breakout season this year on the ATP World Tour. He exploded onto the scene in July, when, as a lucky loser, he won five consecutive matches to win his maiden ATP World Tour title at the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag. #NextGenATP Rublev continued to excel during his first full season on...
Quietly and precisely, #NextGenATP American Jared Donaldson has climbed the Emirates ATP Race To Milan this season. The 20-year-old right-hander began the season in 17th place in the Race, which will determine seven of the eight 21-and-under players who compete at the Next Gen ATP Finals. But this week, after making his second ATP World Tour quarter-final at the Chengdu Open (also 2017 Cincinnati), Donaldson is in sixth place, good enough to qualify for the inaugural event, to be held 7-11 November in Milan, if the Race ended today. See Who's Pushing Donaldson In Emirates ATP Race To Milan “The thing that has allowed me to make the biggest strides is lots of quality matches throughout the entire year. I...