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Mannarino, Dzumhur earn Moscow QF spots
#NextGenATP Russian Daniil Medvedev improved his chances of qualifying for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 7-11 November, on Wednesday at the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
The 21-year-old right-hander hit 16 aces and saved eight of 11 break points to outlast countryman Andrey Kuznetsov 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(6). “It's always tough to play a friend and you always feel sorry to beat him,” Medvedev said.
The Moscow native is in eighth place in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan. The top seven qualify for the inaugural event, with the eighth spot reserved for the winner of an Italian 21-and-under tournament.
Medvedev has 747 Race points, only 13 behind seventh-placed Hyeon Chung of South Korea, who plays second seed Kevin Anderson on Thursday at the Intrum Stockholm Open. Medvedev will next face top seed and Nitto ATP Finals hopeful Pablo Carreno Busta.
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Third-seeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, who recently contested his second ATP World Tour final of the year at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2017 (l. to Goffin), knocked out qualifier Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-6(4) for a place in the quarter-finals. Mannarino will next challenge Dudi Sela, a 7-5, 6-1 victor over Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Damir Dzumhur, the sixth seed, recovered from a 0-3 deficit in the deciding set to knock out Indian qualifier Yuki Bhambri 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in two hours and 27 minutes.
This year’s St. Petersburg Open titlist will next meet 2012 champion Andreas Seppi of Italy, who saved three match points to beat fourth-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 6-3. Seppi was serving at 5-6 in the second set when he erased the trio of match points, including two in a row from 15/40.
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Daniil Medvedev ensured that it will be a close finish in the battle to qualify for next month’s inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan when the #NextGenATP Russian caused an upset at the VTB Kremlin Cup on Thursday.
The 21-year-old Medvedev played with great poise to overcome top-seeded Spaniard and defending champion Pablo Carreno Busta, vying for a place at the Nitto ATP Finals in London, 6-3, 6-3 in 81 minutes.
“I’m very happy to have beaten Pablo, someone who is attempting to qualify for the [Nitto] ATP Finals,” said Medvedev. “I’m happy with the way I’m feeling on the court. I was serving well and I was only disappointed that I couldn’t hold the first break in the second set.”
The result moves Medvedev up one spot to No. 7 in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan — and into a qualification berth — on 772 points, after Hyeon Chung (760 points) lost to Kevin Anderson at the Intrum Stockholm Open today. Carreno Busta remains at No. 9 in the Emirates ATP Race To London.
Medvedev now plays Bosnia and Herzegovinan qualifier Mirza Basic, who was solid on serve to breeze into his first ATP World Tour quarter-final with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Laslo Djere of Serbia in 46 minutes.
Chung, Medvedev Join Next Gen ATP Finals Field Following Zverev's Withdrawal
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One spot remains up for grabs at the inaugural tournament
South Korean Hyeon Chung and Russian Daniil Medvedev on Wednesday became the latest players to qualify for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, the eight-player tournament, to be held 7-11 November in Milan at the Fiera Milano, following the withdrawal of Alexander Zverev of Germany. The final remaining spot will be awarded to the winner of an Italian qualifying event, consisting of the best 21-and-under Italian players, which finishes on 5 November.
Chung and Medvedev will join Russians Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov, Canadian Denis Shapovalov, American Jared Donaldson and Croatian Borna Coric at the innovative new event that will feature a series of rule changes. All seven players have featured this year in the Top 50 of the Emirates ATP Rankings.
World No. 5 Zverev announced that he would withdraw from the tournament to focus his energies on the Nitto ATP Finals, which begins just one day after the Next Gen ATP Finals concludes. The 20-year-old German is the youngest player in 10 years to qualify for the prestigious season finale, to be held 12-19 November at The O2 in London.
"I have consulted with my team and in order to best prepare for London, we have made the decision that it is best not to play the week before in Milan," said Zverev. "Therefore, sadly, I will be withdrawing from the Next Gen ATP Finals, however I still plan on making an appearance at the beginning of the event to support the tournament and show my appreciation for my fans in Italy that were so supportive during my win in Rome earlier this year."
Rublev, who qualified for Milan last week, has enjoyed a breakout season on the ATP World Tour. The 20-year-old Moscow native 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. He currently sits at a career-high No. 35 in the Emirates ATP Rankings.
"I'm really happy and I'm really excited to play in Milan," said Rublev. "I worked hard this year and I've had some great results."
His countryman Khachanov celebrated his first ATP World Tour title a year ago at the Chengdu Open and has followed that memorable finish with deep runs all season. The 6' 6” right-hander has reached four ATP World Tour quarter-finals. He also advanced to the semi-finals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle (l. to Federer).
Canada's Shapovalov has spent the past few months shattering his goals for the year. The 18-year-old left-hander sprinted through the Coupe Rogers draw in Montreal in August, beating Juan Martin del Potro and Rafael Nadal before falling in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-finals to Zverev. Weeks later, Shapovalov, playing at his first US Open, advanced past then-World No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and reached the fourth round in New York.
"Only eight guys get the privilege to play such a prestigious event. So I’m going to enjoy myself and try to do the best I can,” said Shapovalov.
Donaldson of the U.S. has put together one of the most consistent seasons of any #NextGenATP player. The American made the fourth round at the Miami Open presented by Itau and later advanced to the third round at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., and at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. His best finishes, however, have come during the past two months, with quarter-final runs at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati and at the Chengdu Open in China.
Coric has celebrated some of his biggest wins during the 2017 season, his third on tour. The Croatian captured his maiden ATP World Tour title in April at the Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech, saving five championship points against German Philipp Kohlschreiber. At the Mutua Madrid Open, the Zagreb native picked up the biggest win of his career by knocking off then-World No. 1 Andy Murray.
South Korea's Chung reached a career-high of No. 44 in the Emirates ATP Rankings in September, a few weeks after making his third quarter-final of the season at the Winston-Salem Open. Chung also advanced to the quarter-finals of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (l. to Nadal), an ATP World Tour 500 event, and his first ATP World Tour semi-final at the BMW Open by FWU in Munich (l. to Pella).
Medvedev rounded out the direct qualification field and made it a trio of Russians to qualify for Milan. The Moscow native burst out of the gates to start the year, reaching the final of the Aircel Chennai Open (l. to Bautista Agut). Medvedev has made steady progress throughout the year as well, advancing to six ATP World Tour quarter-finals and a semi-final at the Aegon International in Eastbourne.
ATP World Tour Season In Review: #NextGenATP
Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com looks back at five #NextGenATP players who impressed in 2017.
Daniil Medvedev, 21
Medvedev was the last player to qualify directly for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, but the Russian made good use of his time in Milan. The Moscow native upset second-seeded countryman Karen Khachanov and American Jared Donaldson to reach the semi-finals, where he fell in five sets to eventual champion Hyeon Chung, 1-4, 1-4, 4-3(4), 4-1, 0-4.
Earlier in the year, Medvedev earned his first Grand Slam win and his first Top 5 victory by beating Stan Wawrinka on Centre Court at The Championships, Wimbledon. Medvedev also reached his first ATP World Tour final at the Aircel Chennai Open in India (l. to Bautista Agut).
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Denis Shapovalov, 18
As far as breakout stretches go, the Canadian had one of the best in recent memory this season. Shapovalov stunned Juan Martin del Potro and No. 2 Rafael Nadal en route to reaching his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final (l. to Zverev) at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. Shapovalov became the youngest ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-finalist.
Weeks later, at his first US Open, the Canadian upset another ATP World Tour mainstay in Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before reaching the fourth round at the season's final Grand Slam. The left-hander enters 2018 at No. 51 in the Emirates ATP Rankings.
Karen Khachanov, 21
The 6'6” Russian might have the biggest game of all of his #NextGenATP peers, a key reason many pundits and fans have compared him to countryman and former World No. 1 Marat Safin. This season, Khachanov, who won his first ATP World Tour title in October 2016 (Chengdu), made four quarter-finals – Barcelona, Lyon, Bastad and Hamburg – and the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour 500 event in Halle, the Gerry Weber Open. Khachanov, who turns 22 in May, can't return to the 21-and-under Next Gen ATP Finals, but he'll go for his second tour-level title in 2018.
Andrey Rublev, 20
The top seed at the Next Gen ATP Finals, who is already No. 39 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, showed all week why he could be a Top 10 player in the very near future. After a slow start in Milan – a five-set win against Italian wild card Gianluigi Quinzi and a straight-sets loss to Chung – Rublev gained his composure, beating Shapovalov and Croatian Borna Coric to make the first Next Gen ATP Finals championship match (l. to Chung).
Rublev sat atop the Milan bracket because of his stellar second half of 2017. The Russian won his maiden ATP World Tour title in Umag and made the US Open quarter-finals (l. to Nadal).
Hyeon Chung, 21
South Korea's No. 1 entered the Next Gen ATP Finals under the radar: Chung was the second to last player to qualify directly for the tournament, and the trio of Russians, along with Shapovalov, had garnered much of the attention in the tournament preamble.
But that all changed once Chung took the court. The 21-year-old finished the week 5-0 and captured the title at the 21-and-under event. The sixth-seeded Chung had reached only a tour-level semi-final before Milan, but he beat Rublev twice – in group play and in the final – to celebrate the perfect ending to his 2017 season.
In Milan, Chung was at his best when he needed to bail himself out of trouble. The right-hander saved 77 per cent of his break points (34/44) in Italy.
Russian qualifier Daniil Medvedev won 33 of his 36 first-service points and struck eight aces to overcome sixth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-3 in 69 minutes on Monday at the Sydney International. He will next face fellow #NextGenATP Jared Donaldson or France’s Gilles Simon, who captured the Tata Open Maharashtra – his 13th ATP World Tour title.
Fifth-seeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino fought hard to beat Russian qualifier Evgeny Donskoy 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 in two hours and 20 minutes for a second-round meeting with Lithuanian lucky loser Ricardas Berankis, who beat Australian wild card Alex Bolt 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. Bolt struck 21 aces in the one-hour and 57-minute encounter.
John Millman was strong on serve in beating fellow Autralian and 18-year-old qualifier Alexei Popyrin 7-6(4), 6-0 in 80 minutes for a second-round encounter against Luxembourg second seed and defending champion Gilles Muller.
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Top Doubles Seeds Advance To QFs; Spanish Team Fall
Top seed Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo defeated new team Florin Mergea and Nenad Zimonjic 7-6(6), 6-3 in 89 minutes, while 2015 finalists and second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau knocked out Paolo Lorenzi and Mischa Zverev 7-6(3), 6-4. Australian wild cards Alex Bolt and Jordan Thompson beat third seeds Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez 6-1, 6-3 in 56 minutes.
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Young qualifier waits on teenager de Minaur or Paire
New year, another great start. In a show of resilient strength, and maturity, Russian qualifier Daniil Medvedev completed his sixth match of the week on Friday at the Sydney International to reach his second ATP World Tour final.
The 21-year-old Medvedev clawed his way back from a set and 1-3 deficit to beat the talented Italian Fabio Fognini, the fourth seed, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 in one hour and 52 minutes.
Twelve months on from contesting his first final in Chennai (l. to Bautista Agut), Medvedev now waits on the winner of 18-year-old local Alex de Minaur or France’s Benoit Paire. Sydney has been kind to qualifiers through the years with Hyung-Taik Lee (2003), Jarkko Nieminen (2012) and Viktor Troicki (2015) winning the title.
Q1 Alexander Zhubrin (RUS) 6-1 6-2
Q2 Vaclav Safranek (CZE) 6-2 6-4
R1 [6] Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-2 6-3
R2 Jared Donaldson (USA) 6-3 4-6 7-5
QF Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-3 6-3
SF [4] Fabio Fognini (ITA) 2-6 6-4 6-1
W [SE] Alex De Minaur (AUS) 1-6 6-4 7-5
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Daniil Does It! Medvedev Wins First Title
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Russian wins youngest final since Nadal against Djokovic in 2007
If the youngest ATP World Tour final since Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic at the 2007 BNP Paribas Open was a sign of things to come, then the futures for both Daniil Medvedev and Alex de Minaur are plenty bright.
But after a two-hour, 13-minute battle at the Sydney International on Saturday, it was Medvedev who earned his first ATP World Tour title, fending off a gutsy comeback by the home favourite with a 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 triumph just about a year after appearing in his first final at 2017 Chennai (l. to Bautista Agut).
"It's amazing," Medvedev said. "I'm really happy. I mean, to make it through the qualies, there were so many circumstances. I wanted to go to Auckland, because my girlfriend had a visa to New Zealand, and not even one guy withdrew from Auckland... now I won here. So [it's] just amazing."
For a moment, it seemed the victory was in serious jeopardy of slipping the World No. 84's grasp.
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The Ken Rosewall Arena crowd was on its feet, roaring in support of the 18-year-old Australian. Former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt was out of his seat, pumping his fist to encourage his mentee, who has been compared to Hewitt himself for his competitive edge and grittiness.
Suddenly, a 4-0 Medvedev lead in the final set was wiped away. De Minaur saved one match point while serving at 3-5, 30/40 with a forehand volley. And the 'Blue Wall' — the teenager, who has been signing television cameras with the nickname, has credited it to the New South Wales State of Origin rugby team, which is known by the same name for its fearsome defence — seemed to be swallowing everything the Russian threw at him with incredible defence of his own. Medvedev served for the match at 5-4, but de Minaur broke to 15 to level affairs.
De Minaur kept telling himself the same message to help work his way back into the match.
"Just keep digging, leave it all out there, find a way to just make it competitive," De Minaur remembered after the final. "I didn't want to just not leave it all out there, especially for everyone who stayed out there. I wanted to just compete until the last point, and I thought that's what I did. I left it all out there on court."
De Minaur, the youngest finalist on the ATP World Tour since Taylor Fritz at 2016 Memphis, appeared he would use the massive wave of momentum to become the youngest champion since Kei Nishikori at 2008 Delray Beach. But the comeback came to an abrupt halt.
While the World No. 167 did overcome a 0/40 deficit serving at 5-5, he could not save a fourth break point. And although de Minaur displayed the gutsy defence that got him back into the match, he netted a forehand to give Medvedev another chance to serve for the match, an opportunity the Russian would not waste again. The 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier came up with clutch serves, closing out the battle to love when de Minaur put a low slice backhand into the net.
Medvedev somehow found a way to overcome an in-form opponent and the tremendous crowd that was firmly in the Australian's corner.
"It's very tough, of course, but the only thing, I think it [the crowd] works for everyone. If the crowd goes really crazy, sometimes it can turn you on, also. Even if it's against you, you don't feel it that it's against them. Just hear them, so it can turn you on, also," Medvedev said. "I'm sure he wouldn't make the comeback in the third set without the crowd. It was tough, but I'm really happy to manage this."
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Medvedev joins Karen Khachanov (2016 Chengdu) and Andrey Rublev (2017 Umag) as the third active Russian who is under the age of 22 to win an ATP World Tour title. It was a strong bounce-back week for the 21-year-old after losing in the first round of the City of Playford Tennis International, an ATP Challenger Tour event, in the season's opening week.
The Russian is the fourth qualifier to raise the trophy in Sydney since 2003, and he claims 250 ATP Rankings points as well as $83,650 for his efforts. De Minaur earns 150 points and $44,055 for making his first ATP World Tour final.
It has been a dream start to the season for de Minaur, who began the year at No. 208 in the ATP Rankings. The teenager, who is projected to soar to No. 127 on Monday, orchestrated one fairytale run last week at the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp when he advanced to his first ATP World Tour semi-final as a wild card before losing to Ryan Harrison. And this week, he battled his way to his first championship match, becoming the youngest finalist in Sydney since Hewitt in 2000 (d. Stoltenberg).
The final between Medvedev (21) and de Minaur (18) was the youngest battle for the title in Sydney since a 21-year-old Aaron Krickstein defeated Andrei Cherkasov to win in 1989. If the Australian, who was the lowest-ranked Sydney finalist since Cherkasov (No. 223), also in 1989, finished off the comeback, he would have been the lowest-ranked champion at the event since the ATP Rankings began in 1973.
Russian speaks to ATPWorldTour.com after winning the Sydney International
How does it feel to be standing with your first ATP World Tour trophy?
It's an amazing feeling; (tennis players) work all their lives to get (a title), and I'm one of the lucky ones who got one. I'm not going to stop, I'm going to continue to work toward getting more titles.
Could you believe at 21 you are already a winner on the ATP World Tour? Was this a goal of yours, growing up to win an ATP title?
It's very tough to say because growing up, I never thought I'd be a professional player in the Top 100. I went about it step-by-step, I never made any one big step. I was going through the Futures, the Challengers... last year I played a lot of ATP World Tour tournaments and one final (Chennai) and now, finally, I'm getting my first ATP trophy. It would have been tough to imagine that, even two years ago.
You, (Karen) Khachanov and (Andrey) Rublev are three of the top young Russians on the ATP World Tour and last season all broke into the Top 50. Talk about the success of Russian tennis and the future.
It's amazing because I'm the last of the three to win an ATP World Tour title and I'm very happy to have caught them. All our lives, we've been playing tennis, all our lives we've been competing against each other. Of course, there were other (Russian players) before us but it's just the three of us right now. The competition between us makes us better. It makes me happy when they do well and of course I hope they're happy when I do well. It's amazing and we're going to do big things later, I think.
You have had a lot of support in your young career. Who are the people that have allowed you to get this level and you would like to acknowledge?
I want to thank all my coaches, who I've been working with throughout my life. There weren't a lot of them, but they made a big impact. My first coach, a woman named Ekaterina Kryuchkova... the most important people in my career, my parents, Sergey and Olga, because they were always trying to find the money to support my tennis, even when at times it was amazingly hard. They were with me from the beginning, always believing in me, never saying bad things to me when I lost and that's just amazing. I want to thank the tennis centre where I'm working now, the Elite Tennis Centre in Cannes and the head coach, Jean-Rene Lisnard. Right now, I'm working full-time with my coach Gilles Cervara. We were working together before but we started working full-time just this year and we already have a title, so that's just amazing. I also want to thank my girlfriend Daria, who has a big impact on me.
What are your interests off the court and away from tennis?
My biggest hobby, it's something I don't exactly care to admit… it's PlayStation (video games). I spend all my free time on it, so it's my biggest hobby.
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How was it playing in front of a crowd cheering so loudly for the home favourite Alex de Minaur?
It's very tough, of course, but the thing is, I think it works both ways. If the crowd goes really crazy, sometimes it can get both players going. Even if the cheering is against you, you don't hear they're against you, you just feel the energy, so it can pump you up as well. But I'm sure he wouldn't have made that comeback in the third set without the crowd. It was tough, but I'm really happy to have managed this. It's a good lesson ahead of the Australian Open, where I play Thanasi Kokkinakis in the first round.
It seems like this is a really big breakthrough week for both you and for de Minaur.
Yeah, Alex, he's just an amazing player. I remember I practised with him two or three years ago, in the club where I practise in France, and we played a tie-break where the loser had to clean the court. I was the only one serving and he was 15 years old at the time. He beat me and I said to my coach, "Wow; he's really good". And now I just played him in the final of an ATP World Tour tournament. At 18, his age, I was playing Futures. If he continues this way, he's going to be an amazing player.