NextGen ATP Finals 2018

[Damian]

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Grupa A:
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Frances Tiafoe
Hubert Hurkacz
Jaume Munar

Grupa B
Alex De Minaur
Taylor Fritz
Andriej Rubliow
Liam Caruana

[DUN I LOVE]

Caruana wygrał włoskie eliminacje czy przyznają dzikusa z urzędu?

[Damian]

Caruana wygrał włoskie eliminacje czy przyznają dzikusa z urzędu?

Wygrał coś tam.

[Żilu]

Caruana Completes 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals Field

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Action at the Fiera Milano begins on Tuesday
The 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals field is set.

On Sunday, Liam Caruana won his third match in three days, defeating World No. 301 Raul Brancaccio 2-4, 4-1, 4-3(4), 4-3(5) to clinch the Italian 21-and-under wild card playoff and guarantee his spot at the Fiera Milano. The 20-year-old, who came back from two sets down against Luca Giacomini in Saturday's semi-finals, leapt up and smashed away an overhead to clinch the victory.

Caruana joins Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alex de Minaur, Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz, Andrey Rublev, Jaume Munar and Hubert Hurkacz in the prestigious tournament.

Caruana has climbed as high as No. 375 in the ATP Rankings, earning seven match wins on the ATP Challenger Tour in his career. The Italian is not unfamiliar to the Milan contenders, though. Caruana lives in Texas, and practised with American Taylor Fritz when they were juniors.

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[Lleyton]

[DUN I LOVE]

Start jutro?

[arti]

[DUN I LOVE]

Krytykowałem wczoraj oficjalkę ATP, ale dziś mocno rozpoczęli tydzień. Kilka naprawdę cennych artów/informacji.

[Damian]

The 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals Field: By The Numbers

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Learn more about this year's Milan contenders through statistics
There is plenty to like with the 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals field. Milan Contenders have combined for 11 Top 10 wins in their careers, and they have won 3 ATP World Tour titles and 16 ATP Challenger Tour titles. Five of the competitors here at the Fiera Milano have cracked the Top 50 in the ATP Rankings.

But what should fans look out for during the matches, and what are some of the statistics that help explain how these #NextGenATP stars have battled to Milan?

Stefanos Tsitsipas
The Greek is 11th on the ATP World Tour in second-serve winning percentage, claiming 54.3 per cent of those points. Tsitsipas has plenty of match experience in 2018 as well, leading the ATP World Tour with 68 tour-level matches played.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 91--> 15

Alex de Minaur
The Aussie ranks 14th on the ATP World Tour in second-serve return points won at 52.4 per cent. Players placed above him in that category include four members of the Top 5 of the ATP Rankings: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro and Alexander Zverev.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 208--> 31

Frances Tiafoe
The American is 11th on the ATP World Tour in break points saved fending off 65 per cent of his opponents’ opportunities. Tiafoe has improved in that category significantly in 2018, having saved just 52 per cent of the break points he faced in 2017.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 79--> 38

Taylor Fritz
The 2016 ATP Star of Tomorrow is 12-2 lifetime in deciding tie-breaks at all levels. Of all players on the ATP World Tour in 2018 who have played 20 or more tour-level tie-breaks, the American is second with a rate of 73.1 per cent.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 105--> 49

Andrey Rublev
The only player in the field to be competing at the Fiera Milano for the second time is 13th on hard courts first-serve return points won 31.1%, only #NextGenATP player in the Top 25.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 39--> 31

Jaume Munar
The Spaniard is 1-0 in 2018 against the rest of the #NextGenATP field, beating Rublev in Winston-Salem. He has also shown his ability to step up on the big stage, reaching the semi-finals at the ATP World Tour 250-level event in Kitzbuhel.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 188--> 79

Hubert Hurkacz
The Pole has won 16 of his past 18 matches after winning the first set at all levels. He has also enjoyed a successful year on the ATP Challenger Tour indoors, going 9-3.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 237--> 79

Liam Caruana
The Italian has shown a proclivity to battle back when under pressure. Caruana was down two sets to love in his semi-final match in the Italian 21-and-under wild card playoff in Milan, and then he lost the first set in the final before overcoming that deficit to earn his spot in the Next Gen ATP Finals.

ATP Ranking To Begin 2018 --> Highest ATP Ranking In 2018: 430--> 375

Did You Know?
- Tiafoe and Fritz are in position to become the first American duo aged 21 and under to finish inside the Top 50 of the year-end ATP Rankings since 2003, when Andy Roddick (No. 1), Mardy Fish (No. 20) and Robby Ginepri (No. 30), Tiafoe’s coach, did so.

- De Minaur is the lone teenager in the field and the No. 1 Australian in the ATP Rankings. He has made the biggest jump into the Top 50 in 2018, surging from No. 208 last year to a career-high No. 31.

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[Barty]

Start jutro?

Tak, zaczyna Grecja, a chyba najciekawiej zapowiada się mecz Fritz-Rublev.

[Barty]

Towel Rack, Video Review Among New Innovations For Milan

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Eight of the world's best 21-and-under players will test out the innovations
New innovations were as common at last year's inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals as Big Four domination has been during the past decade on the ATP World Tour.

Electronic line calling with Hawk-Eye Live made its world debut; players communicated with coaches in-match via headsets; and the scoring at the 21-and-under event featured more meaningful moments with less down time in matches through shorter sets to four (tie-breaks at three-all) and no-ad scoring.

Read More: Milan Review: A Look Back At The Innovations And Rule Changes

But this year, there will be far fewer new innovations at the Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 6-10 November in Milan, and it's an intentional status quo. Rather than applying a completely different set of rules during the second edition, officials are largely sticking with what worked in 2017, while also adding a few new innovations, in an attempt to build a more robust set of data to study and inform potential future changes to the ATP World Tour.

“We've always said this event could lead to change on tour and to change in the sport, and I think for us to have legitimate research, analytics, buy-in from tennis stakeholders, and for us at the ATP to understand what feels right, we needed more than one year of continuity of the same new innovation rules,” said Ross Hutchins, Next Gen ATP Finals Tournament Director. “Therefore, we decided to add additional changes after the success of the opening year, with legitimate and innovative new potential rule changes that have exciting possibilities for the sport.”

The inaugural tournament, which was won by South Korea's Hyeon Chung, also featured a shorter player warm-up (five minutes), no lets, a limit of one medical time out per player per match and a 25-second shot clock, which was then used on tour this year during the North American hard-court swing and at the US Open.

Read More: Milan Groups Announced; Tsitsipas, De Minaur Top Seeds

Those innovations, along with the electronic line calling, in-match coaching, shorter scoring with best-of-five sets and a “free movement” crowd policy (except behind the baselines) will remain during the 2018 edition. But the player warm-up will be reduced by a further minute, from five to four, and players will be instructed to use towel racks, which will be positioned at both back sides of the court, rather than relying on ball kids to retrieve and handle the sweaty towels.

ATP officials and players agreed that one more minute could be trimmed from the warm-up, which starts when the second player walks on. “We felt that it is a good time to push it even more, live content is what we feel the audience wants to see” Hutchins said.

The towel racks, a point of discussion in tennis of late, will be tried out for a couple reasons, Hutchins said.

Watch Now: Life On Tour With The #NextGenATP


“We came up with this concept earlier in the year as we wanted to experiment with this part of the on-court interaction between player and ball kids. We are taking hygiene of ball kids into consideration and also putting the onus on the player between points” he said.“We think there could be some clear logic in this, and ultimately let's try and do something creative here and try to put the responsibility on the player.”

The award-winning Next Gen ATP Finals will also feature more history. For the first time in men’s professional tennis, video review will be available to further analyse judgement calls from the chair umpire, including the following incidents: double bounces; foul shots, such as a double hit or a carry; touches – when the ball might skim a racquet or clothing; and invasion – when the player, or anything he's wearing or carrying, makes contact with the opponent's side of the court while the ball is in play. Players will be able to challenge any such calls.

“We've seen it across a lot of sports and we felt this could be an extra layer of officiating and excitement in tennis,” Hutchins said of video reviews. “Whenever a sport can add further accuracy of the officiating, I feel that is a positive.”

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[DUN I LOVE]

Codziennie są po 2 mecze czy po 4?

[Barty]

Po 4, wtedy skończymy akurat w sobotę, dzień przed Londynem.

[Barty]

Nawet niedawno była na forum dyskusja o ręcznikach, zobaczymy, jak się sprawdzi pomysł stojaka stojącego w rogach kortu.

[Lleyton]

Groups Set For The 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals

Spoiler:

Play begins Tuesday at the Fiera Milano

Eight #NextGenATP players are set to compete in Milan for the second annual Next Gen ATP Finals title.

On Sunday evening, the eight Milan contenders: Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alex de Minaur, Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz, Andrey Rublev, Jaume Munar, Hubert Hurkacz and Liam Caruana were split into two groups, within which each player will contest three matches, with two competitors per group emerging into the knockout semi-finals.

Group A
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Frances Tiafoe
Hubert Hurkacz
Jaume Munar

Group B
Alex de Minaur
Taylor Fritz
Andrey Rublev
Liam Caruana

Tsitsipas, who defeated four Top 10 opponents en route to the Toronto final and lifted his first ATP World Tour trophy in Stockholm last month, is No. 16 in the ATP Rankings, the highest-ranked player in the field.

The Greek leads Group A, in which there are three other players whom he has never contested a FedEx ATP Head2Head match against. Joining the event’s top seed are American Frances Tiafoe, Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz and Spaniard Jaume Munar.

“I think our group is much better than Group B,” Tsitsipas said on stage at the Nhow Hotel, joking.

In seriousness, Tsitsipas is in a far different position at this season’s Next Gen ATP Finals. One year ago, the Greek was an alternate in Milan. Now, he is one of the leading candidates to capture the tournament’s second crown, following in Hyeon Chung’s footsteps.

“I’m really satisfied,” Tsitsipas said. “I think I belong here.”

The only Group A athletes who have played one another at tour-level are Tiafoe and Hurkacz. Tiafoe defeated Poland’s top player in straight sets at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.

The American has enjoyed the best season of his career, winning his maiden ATP World Tour title at the Delray Beach Open and climbing as high as No. 38 in the ATP Rankings. The 20-year-old will hope that experience helps him earn a berth in the Milan semi-finals.

Group B is led by De Minaur, an Aussie who advanced to his first two ATP World Tour finals (Sydney and Washington, D.C.) and also captured his maiden ATP Challenger Tour trophy in 2018. De Minaur ascended as high as No. 31 in the ATP Rankings this year.

“I definitely wasn’t expecting this,” De Minaur said. “It’s been a great year, I’ve played some unbelievable tennis.”

The 19-year-old will hope that continues at the Fiera Milano, where he was grouped with American Taylor Fritz, 2017 Milan competitor Andrey Rublev and Italian wild card Liam Caruana.

Both De Minaur and Fritz have defeated Rublev in their only previous FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings. It’s hard to forget De Minaur’s win over the Russian, which came in the semi-finals of the Citi Open earlier this year. The Australian saved four match points in a row from 2/6 down in the second-set tie-break before eventually moving into his first ATP World Tour 500-level final after two hours and 52 minutes.

Fritz ousted Rublev in more straightforward fashion, dismissing the 2017 Umag champion in straight sets at this year’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Caruana will try to be the ‘x-factor’ in the group, as he carries the momentum of three wins in three days in the Italian 21-and-under wild card event.

While Caruana has played just one tour-level match, he knows Fritz well, residing in Texas and practising with him in the past. The Italian also played both De Minaur and Rublev once each when they were juniors.

And while the FedEx ATP Head2Head series don’t favour Rublev, the Russian can rely on his experience competing in Milan last year, when he advanced to the championship match.

“I’m really happy to be back,” Rublev said.

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[Damian]

[DUN I LOVE]

Wieszak na ręcznik jest, za rok pewnie pranie będzie można wywiesić na korcie.

[Robertinho]

Wieszak na ręcznik jest, za rok pewnie pranie będzie można wywiesić na korcie.

I co, może jeszcze drapaczkę dla Nadala dostarczą?

[DUN I LOVE]

W zależności od tego, czy Pani Judy Murray podniesie ten temat w 2019.

[Robertinho]

Mama Marej, powiadasz... To już chyba wolę podywagować, który z młodych asów ma najwyższe szanse na triumf w tych prestiżowych zawodach.