With the Pepperstone ATP Stay Race To Jeddah heating up, a number of #NextGenATP stars earned standout ends in July, August and September to make their strikes in a bid to spice up their probabilities of qualifying for the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals, to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 28 November-2 December.
Stricker & Shelton Ship At US OpenBen Shelton and Dominic Stricker stared on the US Open, clinching career-best outcomes at a significant to consolidate their positions within the Stay Race To Jeddah. The 20-year-old Shelton defeated countryman Tommy Paul and Frances Tiafoe to turn out to be the youngest American to succeed in the final 4 on the hard-court main since Michael Chang in 1992.
Stricker, presently seventh within the Stay Race To Jeddah, superior to the fourth spherical at a Grand Slam for the primary time. The 21-year-old Swiss had received just one main match (Wimbledon 2023) earlier than arriving in New York, however confirmed followers how harmful he will be along with his huge lefty serve.
Stricker upset World No. 7 Stefanos Tsitsipas within the second spherical to earn his first High 10 win, earlier than shedding in opposition to Taylor Fritz within the fourth spherical.
“Such an awesome day for me, such an awesome win,” Stricker mentioned after beating Tsitsipas. “It offers me a number of confidence and I feel it’s nice to see from my group. We’re working laborious on daily basis and it’s so nice to do this.”
Fils & Van Assche Get pleasure from Hamburg SuccessFrenchmen Arthur Fils and Luca Van Assche are fifth and sixth, respectively, within the Stay Race To Jeddah. Fils and Van Assche had been constant on the Tour over the previous two months, with each incomes their standout end in Hamburg.
Fils, 19, superior to his fourth tour-level semi-final of the season on the ATP 500 occasion, upsetting then-World No. 4 Casper Ruud for the largest win of his profession by Pepperstone ATP Rating. Van Assche, 19, reached his first tour-level quarter-final on the clay in Hamburg. He beat Alexandre Muller and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
Michelsen Stars On Dwelling Soil, Medjedovic Makes BreakthroughAlex Michelsen loved success on residence soil on the ATP Tour to climb to eighth within the Stay Race To Jeddah. The 19-year-old American, who’s aiming to make his debut on the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals, reached the title match in Newport in simply his second tour-level occasion, earlier than he superior to the third spherical in Winston-Salem.
Serbian Medjedovic additionally broke new floor, reaching his first tour-level semi-final in Gstaad. The 20-year-old, who had not received a match at an ATP Tour event earlier than Gstaad, then captured his third ATP Challenger Tour trophy of the season in Mallorca in September.
Medjedovic has been coached by countryman and former World No. 12 Viktor Troicki because the begin of the yr. The 20-year-old is happy with how their partnership has developed.
“I’ve been engaged on many issues with my coach Viktor. He’s been by means of the conditions that I’m [going] by means of now and he’s serving to me rather a lot, particularly with my psychological recreation,” Medjedovic mentioned.
Chasing PackA variety of #NextGenATP stars loved spectacular outcomes to enhance their qualification bids.
Twelfth-placed Pablo Llamas Ruiz and Thirteenth-placed Luca Nardi each received ATP Challenger Tour occasions in July and August, respectively. Shang Juncheng, sixteenth, received a tour-level match in Atlanta earlier than advancing to the third spherical in Washington, the place he defeated Shelton.
Czech Jakub Mensik, 14th, reached the third spherical at a significant for the primary time on the US Open. ATPTour.com spoke to Mensik’s coach, Tomas Josefus, on the hard-court main.
“Jakub is an aggressive baseliner for certain. His recreation model is basically aggressive and is attempting to place strain on his opponent with taking time away. That is most likely the signature of Jakub’s recreation,” Josefus mentioned when describing Mensik’s recreation. “He has a giant serve and large return. In at this time’s tennis, and in at this time’s recreation, zero to four-shot rallies, particularly right here on laborious courts within the U.S. are a minimal 60, possibly typically 70 per cent of all factors. So undoubtedly a giant serve and large return is a giant energy of Jakub’s recreation.”
