ATP CUP 2021

[DUN I LOVE]

Czytam sporo zachwytów nad Włochami, że są przyszłością itd. Tak sobie pomyślałem, że Matteo ok, ale Fog zaraz będzie miał 34 lata. Chwilę później dotarło do mnie, że trzecią rakietą kraju (rankingowo) jest niejaki Jannik Sinner.


Super tydzień dla Italii, finał ATP Cup + włoski finał Sinner - Travaglia w ATP Melbourne.

[Barty]

22 deble panowie - ev napykali, będzie kolejny wyścig na AO o palmę pierwszeństwa. W ostatnich dwóch gemach pięknie się rączka trzęsła, z tego, co widać na skrótach.

[Kamileki]

[Barty]

[polo90]

Ktoś widział Thiema
Chyba gra bardzo słabo prawda?

[Barty]

Tak, podobnie jak w Cincy w zeszłym roku. Stawiaj na Kukushkina.

Chyba się skuszę dzisiaj na cały finał (singlowy oczywiście).

[Damian]

Wyniki IV dnia:

Półfinały:

Rosja  2 - 1 Niemcy

Andriej Rubliow  d. Jan-Lennard Struff   3-6 6-1 6-2 J. Keathavong
Daniił Miedwiediew  d. Alexander Zverev   3-6 6-3 7-5 M. Lahyani
Kevin Krawietz  / Jan-Lennard Struff   d. Jewgienij Donskoj  / Aslan Karatsev  6-3 7-6(2) J. Blom

Włochy  3 - 0  Hiszpania

Fabio Fognini   d. Pablo Carreño Busta  6-2 1-6 6-4 A. Tourte
Mateo Berrettini   d. Roberto Bautista Agut  6-3 7-5 R. Lichtenstein
Simone Bolelli  / Andrea Vavassori   d. Pablo Carreño Busta  / Marcel Granollers  walkower J. Keathavong


Grupa D:

Guido Pella   d. Yoshihito Nishioka  6-3 7-6(4) R. Lichtenstein
Diego Schwartzman   d. Kei Nishikori  6-1 6-7(4) 6-0 C. Ramos
Maximo Gonzalez  / Horacio Zeballos   d. Ben Mclachlan  /Toshihide Matsui  6-2 6-2 A. Tourte

[Damian]

Finał:

Rosja  vs Włochy

Andriej Rubliow vs Fabio Fognini
Daniił Miedwiediew vs Mateo Berrettini
Jewgienij Donskoj / Aslan Karatsev vs Simone Bolelli / Andrea Vavassori

[Damian]

Russia, Italy Ready For ATP Cup Final Showdown

Spoiler:

Two nations enter final with 3-0 tie records this week

After four days of competition, only two countries remain in the battle to be crowned ATP Cup champion. Russia and Italy enter the championship match with undefeated 3-0 tie records, but which team will emerge with the trophy?

Described as the two-headed monster of this year’s competition, Russia will aim to extend its perfect 6-0 singles record to take the trophy in Melbourne. Russia is the only team in the tournament to feature two Top 10 players in the FedEx ATP Rankings: Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev.

Italy’s hopes of winning rest in the hands of Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini. The Italians, who both cracked the Top 10 in the FedEx ATP Rankings for the first time in 2019, own a combined 5-1 record in singles this week.

Should the two nations split the singles encounters, team captains Evgeny Donskoy and Vincenzo Santopadre will both have a big decision to make. Do they stick with their selected doubles team or bring in their singles stars? Russia may own an unbeaten 6-0 record in singles this week, but they are yet to claim a win in three doubles matches. Italy owns a 1-1 record in contested doubles matches at this year’s event.

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Rublev Seeks Rare Fognini Win
In the opening match of the final, World No. 8 Andrey Rublev will attempt to continue his dominant singles run this week. Across his two Group D matches, the 2020 Nitto ATP Finals qualifier dropped a combined seven games against Guido Pella and Yoshihito Nishioka.

Despite Rublev’s red-hot form, his opponent — Fabio Fognini — will have a reason to be confident when he walks onto Rod Laver Arena. The 2019 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters champion owns a 5-1 ATP Head2Head record against Rublev, which includes wins in his three most recent encounters with the Russian.

Since losing his opening match of the tournament, the World No. 17 has claimed three straight victories. Fognini combined with Berrettini to clinch a tie-deciding doubles win against Austria and has also picked up singles wins against Benoit Paire and Pablo Carreno Busta.

“Fabio is really a great player. Everyone knows that he's really talented,” said Rublev. “When he's at his best, [it is] really tough to beat him… It's going to be interesting. I have nothing to lose. He has all the pressure because he beat me more times than I [beat him]… It's going to be a challenge for me. I will try to do my best and give my everything. I think it's going to be great match from both of us.”

Rublev and Fognini will both be eager to deliver their teammates an opportunity to clinch the trophy. The title will be on the line in the No. 1 singles match, when Medvedev meets Berrettini.


Can Medvedev Or Berrettini Clinch The Title?
Medvedev enters the championship match on a 13-match winning streak. The Russian’s run began last year, when he claimed 10 straight victories to lift trophies at the Rolex Paris Masters and the Nitto ATP Finals. The World No. 4 has added three straight sets wins to that tally this week. Remarkably, during his 13-match winning run, Medvedev has overcome nine Top 10 opponents.

The 2020 Nitto ATP Finals titlist can take that statistic into double figures on Sunday, when he faces World No. 10 Berrettini. With a combined 4-0 record in singles and doubles, Berrettini has been one of the standout players of this year’s competition. The Rome-born star has already beaten a player ranked higher than Medvedev in the FedEx ATP Rankings at this event. In his opening match of the tournament, Berrettini claimed a 6-2, 6-4 win against World No. 3 Dominic Thiem.

“Italian tennis is amazing… It's an amazing tennis nation,” said Medvedev. “They had maybe, for some time, just a little bit of a downfall, but just a little one. Now they're back at it, especially [with] Matteo [and] Fabio playing amazing here.”

Both men have come a long way since they contested their only previous ATP Head2Head match at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open. On that occasion, World No. 57 Medvedev outlasted World No. 108 Berrettini 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-4. The prize? A third-round encounter with Pablo Carreno Busta. This time, the ATP Cup trophy could await the winner.


Doubles Decisions
If the destination of the trophy is not decided by Medvedev and Berrettini’s second career meeting, captains Donskoy and Santopadre will play their biggest role in the tie. Will they commit to their original doubles selections, or place one of their singles stars into the team?

As player/captain, Donskoy is slated to play the final match of the tournament alongside Aslan Karatsev. Donskoy and Karatsev own a 0-2 team record this week. Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori are scheduled to represent Italy on the other side of the net, but they lost their only match of the week against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Italy has played just one decisive doubles match this week and, on that occasion, Santopadre brought in his singles stars. The gamble paid off, as Berrettini and Fognini clinched a 6-1, 6-4 win against Thiem and Dennis Novak to clinch a 2-1 win against Austria.

It is difficult to predict which side will emerge victorious on Rod Laver Arena, but one matter is certain. There will be a new country inscribed on the ATP Cup trophy. Serbia won the inaugural edition of the event last year, but will it be Russia or Italy that makes history on Sunday?

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/russia- ... al-preview

[DUN I LOVE]

O północy zaczynamy (transmisja w jednym z kanałów sportowych Polsatu).

Najpierw Rubliow - Fog, później Danił - Beret.

[Damian]

Plan gier na niedzielę:

Rod Laver Arena - start o 00:
Andriej Rubliow vs Fabio Fognini
Daniił Miedwiediew vs Mateo Berrettini
Jewgienij Donskoj / Aslan Karatsev vs Simone Bolelli / Andrea Vavassori

[Kamileki]

Why Italian Tennis Is Shining Brighter Than Ever

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Team Italy celebrates its victory against Team Spain, sending them into the ATP Cup final for the first time.
Why Italian Tennis Is Shining Brighter Than Ever
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Andrew Eichenholz
Italy will play Russia in Sunday's ATP Cup final

The tennis world has been buzzing about Italian tennis of late. With #NextGenATP players Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti blossoming into stars, the future of the sport in their country looks bright.

But this week at the ATP Cup, Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini have shown that Italy is not just poised to shine in the future; the country is already making its mark. The Italians will meet Team Russia in Sunday’s championship match. They are not surprised about it, either.

“Surprised? No,” Fognini said. “I'm honest.”

Berrettini and Fognini have not surged out of nowhere. They both broke into the Top 10 in the FedEx ATP Rankings in 2019, becoming the third (Fognini) and fourth (Berrettini) Italians to achieve the feat since the inception of the Rankings in 1973.

Not only are they within one tie victory from lifting the ATP Cup trophy as a team, but the Italians are thrilled to make their country proud.

“I’m feeling great to play not just for me, but for my team and for Italy in general,” Berrettini said on court after beating Roberto Bautista Agut on Friday. “That's what matters the most.”

Many Italians give a lot of the credit for the country’s recent success to the accomplishments and mentorship of veterans Fognini, Simone Bolelli, Andreas Seppi and Paolo Lorenzi among others.

“I think thanks to these two guys in general and the guys a bit older than me, they were kind of wishing us to get better,” Berrettini said earlier in the week. “We were watching them and we were inspired by them. They're still doing great careers. I think it helped us to figure out how to do it.”

It’s safe to say Italy, home of the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan and from this year, the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, will be a threat at the ATP Cup for years to come. But 33-year-old Fognini, who has gone a combined 3-1 in singles and doubles at this edition, is happy to be contributing to his country’s success now.

“[It is] really nice because I think I’m still okay, even if I'm 33. I still enjoy [playing],” Fognini said. “I have energy to do it… [my FedEx ATP] Ranking is not important anymore because, of course, I can play, I can beat most of everybody. I'm happy because I'm the old one.”

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But at the same time, Fognini thinks it is nice for other players from his country to follow the path the current Italian veterans laid down.

“It's nice that we have players like [Matteo who] is turning 25, now the other two guys that are almost 20. They are younger than me also,” Fognini said. “But it's good not only from us, but it's good for them because they’re still really young. They have to work a lot to reach probably the best [in the sport].”

The Italian success has not gone unnoticed by the stars of the ATP Tour, including Daniil Medvedev, who will play Berrettini in Sunday’s ATP Cup final.

“To be honest, Italian tennis is amazing. I think the number of players they have inside the Top 500… we see a lot,” Medvedev said. “It’s an amazing tennis nation. They had maybe for some time just a little bit of a downfall, but just a little one. Now they're back at it, especially Matteo, Fabio playing amazing here.”

The ATP Cup is not the only event at Melbourne Park in which Italians have enjoyed success this week. Sinner will play countryman Stefano Travaglia in the Great Ocean Road Open final.

While there is plenty to look forward to in the future for Italian tennis, the country and its stars are enjoying the present, too.

“When [Jannik is] coming, I'm not going to play. I'm too old now. 33, 34 in May,” Fognini said, cracking a laugh. “So [by that point] I'm going to relax with fishing [and] enjoy life as much as I can.”
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[DUN I LOVE]

Dobrze, że krzywdy sobie nie zrobił.

[Barty]

Ale miazga, pięknie widzieć tak bezradnego Włocha.

Szkoda, że podobnie jak na AO, panowie od tych czerwonych idą na siebie w ćwierćfinale. Wolałbym jednak, żeby Rublev akurat się nie przełamywał w tym turnieju, bo może popsuć plan.

[Damian]

Na dwóch biegunach Panowie.

[DUN I LOVE]

Obejrzałem ten dokument o Rubliowie i jakiś taki bliższy mi się wydaje. Davai.

[juniorro]

Szybko Rosja załatwi sprawę myślę że niedźwiedź też ogra bez problemu bereta i po singlach będziemy mieli zwycięzcę ATP Cup.

[DUN I LOVE]

Beret maseczkę założył. Mało czasu, trzeba lecieć na rozgrzewkę.

[Barty]

No i elegancko, godzinka z groszem, akurat na wsunięcie dobrego bolognese i wypicie browarka.
Poważny mecz też się zacznie szybciej dzięki temu.

Jakby ktoś chciał kiedyś podziwiać, jak Rublev gra na luzie forehand przeciwko przeciętnemu rywalowi, to skrót z dzisiejszego pojedynku pewnie będzie dobrym przykładem.

[DUN I LOVE]

Podejście i postawa Foga żałosna. Dobrze, że Andriej wypłacił mu liścia.