Making his first appearance at the Intrum Stockholm Open since 2015, Pablo Carreno Busta defeated John Millman 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the second round on Tuesday.

The fifth seed saved all four break points he faced to record his second win in three FedEx ATP Head2Head clashes against the Tokyo runner-up. Carreno Busta, who owns a 26-19 tour-level record this year, is aiming to lift his second ATP 250 title of the season after triumphing at last month’s Chengdu Open.

The Spaniard will be aiming to reach the quarter-finals in Stockholm for the first time when he faces lucky loser Gianluca Mager in the second round. Mager recorded his first tour-level victory after one hour and 40 minutes, charging from a set down to beat Pablo Andujar 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.

Stockholm debutant Yoshihito Nishioka recorded his first victory at the Kungliga Tennishallen, beating Radu Albot 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. The Japanese saved 15 of 18 break points to book a second-round meeting against third seed Taylor Fritz.

Sam Querrey will also face seeded opposition in his second match in the Swedish capital. The American fired 20 aces to defeat qualifier Dennis Novak 7-6(6), 6-4. Querrey will face second seed and 2013 champion Grigor Dimitrov for a quarter-final spot. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe also advanced, beating Brayden Schnur 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.

Roger Federer will go for gold in 2020. The Swiss star confirmed on Monday that he will compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

“I’ve been debating with my team for a few weeks now, months actually, what I should do in the summer time (of 2020) after Wimbledon and before the US Open,” Federer said, according to the Olympic Channel.

“I carried the flag twice for Switzerland in Athens and Beijing, I’ve got a gold and a silver, and I would love to play again so I’m very excited.”

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This would be my 5th Olympic Games, I hope I will be healthy unlike Rio! Can’t wait Tokyo ?
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— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) October 14, 2019

Federer has played at four Olympics, winning the doubles gold medal with Stan Wawrinka at Beijing 2008 and taking silver in singles at London 2012 (l. to Murray). The 20-time major champion missed 2016 Rio because of injury and didn’t medal at 2000 Sydney or 2004 Athens. Tennis begins in Tokyo on 25 July.

The 38-year-old is next scheduled to compete this season on the ATP Tour at his hometown event, the Swiss Indoors Basel, which begins Monday.

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— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) October 8, 2019

Alex de Minaur is coming back to the Next Gen ATP Finals.

De Minaur finished as runner-up last year in Milan. Here are five things to know about the three-time ATP Tour titlist.

1. He is perfect in title matches this season.
De Minaur is a perfect 3-0 in ATP Tour title matches this season. He started the year by winning his home tournament, the Sydney International, and becoming the youngest Sydney champion since 19-year-old countryman Lleyton Hewitt in 2001.

De Minaur also won two more hard-court titles, never facing a break point at the BB&T Atlanta Open and fighting past former World No. 1 Andy Murray en route to the Huajin Securities Zhuhai Championships crown last month.

De Minaur’s unblemished season in finals has come after he had rough luck during the same stage in 2018. The Aussie fell in finals in Sydney, at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., and at last year’s Next Gen ATP Finals.

Watch: De Minaur’s Home Visit In Sydney

2. He talks with his psychologist every day.
De Minaur was an unknown commodity last year during his breakout season that saw him climb 177 spots, from No. 208 to No. 31 in the ATP Rankings.

This year, however, the 20-year-old has felt pressure to back up his season and continue to climb the ATP Rankings. “I’ve got a lot more expectations on myself,” he said.

You wouldn’t know it, though, judging by his improved results. The Aussie has worked with a Spanish psychologist for the past few years, and this year they’ve begun talking daily. De Minaur credits their work for his continued progress.

“I feel like the head, the mind is one of the most important things out there. I train my mind as much as I do on the tennis court or as much as I do fitness,” De Minaur said.

“Tennis is such a tough sport as it is, it’s only you out there on court, so you’ve got to deal with a lot of different pressures and expectations and when things aren’t going well. So to have someone like [him] to be on my team and be able to clear my mind and make me stronger mentally, I think it’s been the biggest change for me. That’s the way I’ve been progressing, thanks to all the work I’ve done with him.”

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3. He learned how to drive in the off-season.
Like most players, De Minaur put in his fair share of fitness and tennis during the off-season ahead of 2019. But he also checked off a bucket list item: He learned how to drive.

“I was fortunate enough to have a week and a half off, and I put all that time and effort into getting any driver’s license in Spain. So it was a productive week and a half,” said De Minaur, who trains in Alicante, Spain. “I just had to pass my theory and pass the driving test, and it was all good.”

It’s not all open highways for De Minaur, though, who, as of January was still without his Australian driver’s license. “Here in Australia it takes a bit longer than in Spain,” he said.

Watch Uncovered: Millman Investigates De Minaur’s Driving Skills & Dancing Moves

4. He could be near Top 15, Top 10 of ATP Rankings.
De Minaur is at a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 24, already seven spots higher than where he ended last season (No. 31). But the 20-year-old could be even higher had he not been injured during the middle of 2019.

A hip injury kept De Minaur out of the Miami Open presented by Itau and the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell and hindered his level. From the end of February to mid-May, De Minaur endured a five-match losing streak. Now, though, he has a chance to end the season inside the Top 20.

“Can’t dwell on the past. It’s about keep moving on and on to the next week. So [I’m] very happy with the progress we have made,” he said.

5. He’s making a return trip to Milan.
De Minaur won his group and rode into the Next Gen ATP Finals title match a perfect 4-0 before falling to Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 2-4, 4-1, 4-3(3), 4-3(3).

The 21-and-under event has propelled De Minaur, along with some of his 2018 #NextGenATP rivals, including Russian Andrey Rublev, who beat Roger Federer in Cincinnati, and American Taylor Fritz, who won his maiden ATP Tour title at the Nature Valley International in June.

Watch: Learn How To Defend Like De Minaur

Janko Tipsarevic is bringing his celebrated 17-year ATP Tour career to a close at the Intrum Stockholm Open. The Serbian announced on Monday that Stockholm will be his final ATP Tour event before he retires in November after the Davis Cup Finals.

But Tipsarevic isn’t content with making this week a mere nostalgia moment. He wrapped up the evening session with a convincing 6-2, 6-4 win over #NextGenATP Frenchman Corentin Moutet. Tipsarevic broke the Frenchman four times and dominated most of the baseline rallies in their 73-minute clash.

The Serbian has won four ATP Tour titles in his career, reached two US Open quarter-finals (2011-2012) and peaked at No. 8 in the ATP Rankings in 2012. Next up for Tipsarevic is top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini.

Eighth-seeded Brit Daniel Evans won a hard-fought 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 battle with Aussie Bernard Tomic and awaits the winner of #NextGenATP Norwegian Casper Ruud and Serbian Filip Krajinovic. Italian Stefano Travaglia scored the upset of the day with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 victory over sixth-seeded American Reilly Opelka. Travaglia will play Japanese Yuichi Sugita or Swede Elias Ymer for a place in the quarter-finals.

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga got his European Open campaign off to flying start on Monday in Antwerp. In a battle of experience against youth, the sixth seed and 2017 champion defeated Italian Lorenzo Sonego 6-3, 6-4.

Tsonga scored the lone break of each set to advance in one hour and 20 minutes, improving to 2-0 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Sonego. The 34-year-old has excelled indoors this year, picking up ATP Tour titles in Montpellier (d. Herbert) and Metz (d. Bedene). Tsonga will play fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon or Belgian Steve Darcis in the next round.

Fifth-seeded Argentine Guido Pella prevailed in a marathon 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(2) match with German Peter Gojowczyk. Pella improved to 3-2 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry with Gojowczyk and has won their past two matches. Next up for him is the winner of Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who prevailed here in 2016, and South Korean Soonwoo Kwon.

Tuesday’s schedule features Brit Andy Murray making his debut at this event against local favourite Kimmer Coppejans.

The ATP Race To Milan is coming down to the wire. With two weeks remaining in the Race, which ends 28 October, seven spots are still up for grabs for the Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 5-9 November at the Allianz Cloud in Milan.

Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime joined defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas last week as qualifiers for the 21-and-under event. Greece’s Tsitsipas, however, will not compete in Milan because he has qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals, to be held 10-17 November in London.

That means six direct qualification spots still remain for Milan as the final spot is reserved for an Italian wild card.

Aussie Alex de Minaur (1,430 points), Canadian Denis Shapovalov (1,255 points) and American Frances Tiafoe (970 points), in third through fifth place, respectively, are next in line to qualify for the award-winning event. De Minaur is taking this week off, but Shapovalov is the fourth seed at the Intrum Stockholm Open and opens with a bye. At the European Open in Antwerp, Tiafoe will meet German qualifier Yannick Maden in the first round.

Read More: Key Things To Watch In Antwerp, Moscow, Stockholm

Norway’s Casper Ruud (sixth place, 931 points) will try to bolster his standing in Stockholm as well. The 20-year-old, competing for the first time since last month in Zhuhai, is looking to make his Milan debut. He opens against Serbian Filip Krajinovic.

In seventh place, Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (893 points) will try to make his second ATP Tour final (Antalya) at the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow. The eighth-seeded Kecmanovic faces Russian qualifier Artem Dubrivnyy in the first round.

Eighth-placed Ugo Humbert (778 points) will look to continue his strong play indoors this week in Antwerp. Humbert made the Moselle Open semi-finals in Metz in February (l. to Kukushkin).

The surging Swede Mikael Ymer, in ninth place with 751 points, is playing on home soil in Stockholm and meets Joao Sousa of Portugal in the first round. Behind back-to-back ATP Challenger Tour titles, Ymer has added 225 Race points in the past two weeks.

France’s Corentin Moutet, in 10^th place with 569 points, was looking to make up ground on Ymer in Stockholm, but Moutet fell to Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 6-2, 6-4 on Monday.

Pablo Cuevas/Maximo Gonzalez kicked off first-round action on Monday at the European Open in Antwerp with a 7-6(5), 7-5 win over Arnaud Bovy/Steve Darcis. Cuevas/Gonzalez saved all four break points and scored the lone break of the match at 5-5 in the second set.

At the Intrum Stockholm Open, fourth seeds Wesley Koolhof/Fabrice Martin scored a tight 7-6(6), 6-4 victory over Luke Bambridge/Ben McLachlan. They’ll play Dominic Inglot/Austin Krajicek or Rohan Bopanna/Divij Sharan in the next round.

The VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow saw third seeds Marcus Daniell/Philipp Oswald rally to defeat Nikola Cacic/Dusan Lajovic 3-6, 6-4, 10-6. Alexander Bublik/Mikhail Kukushkin needed just 49 minutes to advance past Miomir Kecmanovic/Nenad Zimonjic 6-2, 6-2, while Aljaz Bedene/Nicolas Jarry are through to the quarter-finals after a 2-6, 7-6(5), 10-5 win over Evgeny Donskoy/Andrey Rublev.