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Collaboration & sustainability headline Nitto ATP Finals as Torino Green Project enters second year

  • Posted: Nov 10, 2024

As the Nitto ATP Finals kicks off, the second year of the Nitto ATP Finals Torino Green Project continues to elevate the tournament’s commitment to environmental sustainability. This initiative, driven by Nitto, ATP and the Federazione Italiana Tennis e Padel (FITP), features a series of projects that connect fans, partners, and local stakeholders, underscoring the power of partnership in advancing sustainable practices within the sport.

Highlight: The Green Wall
In the heart of the Fan Village, visitors will find The Green Wall — a sustainability-focused installation designed with live plants, developed collaboratively by Nitto, ATP and FITP. The wall invites fans to engage directly with the theme of sustainability, offering a vibrant backdrop for photos and social media shares that promote environmental awareness. Following the tournament, The Green Wall will be relocated within Turin, an active symbol of the city’s sustainability mission. As one of the European Commission’s 100 “Mission Cities”, Turin has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2030.

Innovation Summit: Circular Economy Leadership
This year’s Nitto ATP Finals Innovation Summit hosted its third edition on Friday, bringing together thought leaders to discuss the ‘Right to Repair’ and circular economy initiatives. Speakers from Nitto, FITP, the City of Turin, and the Politecnico of Torino, among other industry representatives, joined a series of roundtable discussions, focusing on innovative approaches to sustainable consumption and waste reduction. The Summit reaffirms Nitto and ATP’s shared commitment to sustainability through thought leadership and active partnership with local institutions.

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Fan Participation: Tracking Travel Emissions
For the first time, fans attending the Nitto ATP Finals will have the chance to support the tournament’s sustainability goals by logging their travel to and from the event. Powered by Nitto in collaboration with sustainability startup LOWR, this initiative will provide valuable insights into the carbon footprint of fan travel, a major contributor to event emissions. This project is part of ATP’s broader ATP Serves strategy, which focuses on advancing the sport’s sustainability.

“The Nitto ATP Finals is the pinnacle of our season, and we’re proud to see it leading the way on our sustainability roadmap,” said Massimo Calvelli, ATP CEO. “This progress is driven by partnerships, combining strengths to achieve meaningful change. Nitto’s support, alongside the commitment of all our partners, has been essential in making this event the best it can be — for tennis, our community and the planet.”

This year’s Nitto ATP Finals Torino Green Project initiatives build on a successful year in 2023, with actions including planting 40 trees in the vicinity of the Inalpi Arena, installation of green roofs atop select bus stops in the city and donating €100,000 to the Municipality of Turin.

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Vote For Your Favourite Player & Team In 2024 ATP Awards

  • Posted: Nov 09, 2024

It’s time to vote! We need your help to determine the Fans’ Favourite winners in the 2024 ATP Awards. 

Which tennis players entertained you during the 2024 ATP Tour season? Show your support by selecting your favourite singles player and doubles team from the dropdowns below and submit your vote.

Voting for the 2024 Fans’ Favourite Awards closes at 11:59pm GMT on Wednesday, 27 November. 

Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we celebrate players and tournaments in the 2024 ATP Awards!

Note: Fans’ Favourite candidates are active players in the Top 100 of the PIF ATP Rankings and Top 20 teams in the PIF ATP Doubles Team Rankings as of 4 November 2024. The Top 100 includes players with protected ATP Rankings who have played at least one tour-level match in 2024. Candidates with protected rankings are noted in the list with (PR). 

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Doubles stars ready for Nitto ATP Finals

  • Posted: Nov 09, 2024

The doubles stars of the 2024 Nitto ATP Finals gathered on Saturday for Media Day, during which they took the Official Doubles Photo at the Inalpi Arena.

Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavic headline the draw and will compete in The Bob Bryan group with Italians Simone Bolelli/Andrea Vavassori, Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden, and Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz. Second seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos top the Mike Bryan Group with Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektic, Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson, and Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten. All will compete for the title in Turin, starting on Sunday.

“Since January in Australia, each milestone has led us to this pinnacle in Turin and we eagerly anticipate the start of play on Sunday,” said Ross Hutchins, Chief Tour Officer of the ATP Tour. “The NATPF sets the highest standards across all areas—player experience, production excellence, and fan engagement—and today’s opening of the Fan Village further underscores this commitment.

“Congratulations to each of our players; qualifying among the Top eight is an outstanding achievement and you have fully earned this stage. As we prepare for doubles’ biggest showcase of the year, we wish all players the very best.”

Photo Credit: Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Earlier in the day, the players took to stage in the newly renovated Fan Village, answering questions and signing autographs in front of a packed crowd.

“I am super excited to be competing at the Nitto ATP Finals,” Arevalo said. “I think it is the main goal of the players at the start of the year to be at the best event of the ATP. I am super grateful to be here, I am super excited. I want to start competing already. Thanks to my partner Mate [Pavic] too, because without him, this would not be possible. Also congratulations to all the teams here.”

Action commences on Sunday, when Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic open proceedings against Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson in The Mike Bryan Group.

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Bonzi completes dream week in Metz, clinches maiden title on home soil

  • Posted: Nov 09, 2024

Benjamin Bonzi overcame Cameron Norrie 7-6(6), 6-4 to lift his maiden ATP Tour title on home soil at the Moselle Open in Metz on Saturday.

Backed by a vocal home crowd, Bonzi delivered an impressive performance on serve, firing 10 aces and winning 75 per cent (45/60) of his first-serve points. The French qualifier entered the tournament with a 0-6 record this season, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

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Playing Norrie for the first time, Bonzi took a 1-0 lead in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series. He will rise to No. 78 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, after having started the week at No. 124.

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Murray/Peers clinch Belgrade crown, Arends/Johnson rally to Metz title

  • Posted: Nov 09, 2024

Top seeds Jamie Murray and John Peers wrapped up another strong week by clinching their second title together this season at the Belgrade Open on Saturday.

The British-Australian pair displayed solid form in the championship match and staged a comeback to oust fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Skander Mansouri 3-6, 7-6(5), 11-9, in their maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting.

Murray and Peers maintained a near-perfect record and dropped their only set of the week in the final. The duo won 76 per cent (32/42) of their first-serve points, converted one break point out of five opportunities, and emerged victorious in one hour and 36 minutes.

With the win, they claimed their eighth title as a team. The pair, who teamed for the first time since 2016 in August this year, also won the Swiss Indoors Basel trophy in October.

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Arends/Johnson clinch Metz crown
Sander Arends and Luke Johnson ended Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Albano Olivetti’s hopes of winning a title together on home soil at the Moselle Open on Saturday.

The Dutch-British pair rallied to defeat Herbert and Olivetti 6-4, 3-6, 10-3 to clinch the Moselle Open crown. Buoyed by the home support, Herbert and Olivetti’s second-set comeback wasn’t enough, as Arends and Johnson proved too strong to seal their first tour-level title as a team.

The two fended off the challenge posed by the Frenchmen in one hour and 18 minutes. They fired 10 aces and saved five of the seven break points they faced.

“It was really difficult for us to play against you today,” said Arends in the post-match interview. “I felt like I didn’t play [against] two guys, I played against [about] 2000 guys.”

Herbert and Olivetti were aiming to become the first all-French team to clinch the title in Metz since Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin achieved the feat in 2018.

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Home favourite Sinner meets debutant De Minaur in Turin opener

  • Posted: Nov 09, 2024

The 2024 Nitto ATP Finals kicks off Sunday in Turin with two singles matches and two doubles matches between the game’s very best in the Inalpi Arena.

The Ilie Nastase Group will begin singles play on Day 1, with Italy’s Jannik Sinner taking on debutatant Alex de Minaur in the evening session, after Daniil Medvedev meets Taylor Fritz during the day session. Day 1 doubles action will begin with Nikola Mektic and Wesley Koolhof taking on Aussies Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson, before Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos play Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten.

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[1] Jannik Sinner (ITA) vs. [7] Alex de Minaur (AUS)
No one at the Nitto ATP Finals has the luxury of playing his way into form in Turin. That’s doubly true for De Minaur, who drew Sinner — already confirmed as the year-end No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings — as the opening assignment of his maiden campaign at the season finale.

The Aussie will hope Sunday is a day of firsts in more ways than one. In addition to making his Nitto ATP Finals debut, the 25-year-old will be bidding for his first Lexus ATP Head2Head victory in eight tries against Sinner.

“It is not rocket science, but you have to be ready from the word go. It doesn’t get any harder than starting against Jannik,” De Minaur said after the draw. “From the very start, I need to be ready, I need to compete. It is going to be a great experience. A great challenge. But this is where I have wanted to be all these years.”

As a reward for his breakthrough into the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings this season, De Minaur earned a place among the game’s best in Turin. Even among that elite group, Sinner’s season stands out. The Italian racked up 65 wins and a tour-leading seven titles in 2024, including his first two major titles at the Australian Open and the US Open.

Perhaps the only thing missing for the Italian this year? Competing in his home nation. Sinner missed the Rome ATP Masters 1000 with a hip injury, making his Turin return even more significant.

“Many things make [this tournament] special,” Sinner told ATP Media on Thursday. “First of all, being an Italian and playing in Italy. I haven’t played in Italy this year, because I missed Rome. That was a really tough one, but I am even more excited and happy to be here.”

The evening showdown between Sinner and De Minaur will see perhaps the game’s purest ballstriker attempt to hit through one of the most dogged defenders in the sport. While De Minaur is more than capable of taking the action to Sinner, his ability to “steal” points from defence will be key in his upset bid. According to Tennis Data Innovations, De Minaur won 38.5 per cent of points this year in which his opponent gains an attacking advantage. That ability will be put to the test on Sunday evening.

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[4] Daniil Medvedev vs. [5] Taylor Fritz (USA)
While Medvedev and Fritz have both been ever-presents near the top of the PIF ATP Rankings in recent years, they only have one previous Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting between them. At the Cincinnati ATP Masters 1000 in 2022, Medvedev was a straight-sets winner in the quarter-finals.

Both men competed at the Nitto ATP Finals that season. This year, Medvedev makes his sixth straight appearance at the event, while Fritz returns for his second.

“With Taylor, it’s pretty crazy because we’ve both been Top 10 for like three years and we kind of started to be on Tour at the same time and we’ve only played each other one time, which is crazy,” said Medvedev.

Quick conditions are expected in the Inalpi Arena, but Fritz is wary of his opponent’s ability to slow things down.

“Daniil is obviously very awkward [to play] because he slows down the speed of the match a lot with how he plays and how he hits the ball. He doesn’t play with a lot of spin or lift for you to work off of,” Fritz said. “You constantly are feeling like you have to lift and generate pace. He slows down the court a lot.”

 

After reaching his first Grand Slam final this year at the US Open and notching 17 total wins at the majors, Fritz is focused on continuing his consistency at the big events. Medvedev’s best major result also came on the hard courts of New York, where he won the 2021 title, denying Novak Djokovic a calendar-year Grand Slam with a flawless final performance

Both men have also enjoyed success at the Nitto ATP Finals. Medvedev won the title in 2020 before reaching the 2021 final and the 2023 semis. Fritz powered his way into the 2022 semi-finals in his lone previous Turin appearance, beating Rafael Nadal along the way. There could yet be space for both men in this year’s knockout rounds, but the toughest tournament in tennis will become even more challenging for the loser of this opening showdown.

Doubles Action
Second seeds Granollers and Zeballos seek to go one step further at the Nitto ATP Finals after a championship match defeat to Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in 2023. The Spanish-Argentine team was seeded fifth last year but enter the 2024 finale at the second seeds behind ATP Masters 1000 titles in Rome and Montreal. They will meet seventh seeds Patten and Heliovaara, who won their first Grand Slam title both individually and as a pair at Wimbledon.

The opening doubles match will see third seeds Koolhof and Mektic face fifth-seeded Aussies Purcell and Thompson. Koolhof/Mektic won five titles this season — including at the ATP Masters 1000s in Indian Wells, Shanghai and Paris — while Purcell/Thompson count the US Open doubles crown among their four trophies this season. The Aussies also finished runners-up at Wimbledon.

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Shapovalov ends long wait for second title, Djokovic presents trophy in Belgrade

  • Posted: Nov 09, 2024

After a five-year wait, Denis Shapovalov became an ATP Tour champion once again on Saturday at the Serbia Open, where he defeated Serbian Hamad Medjedovic 6-4, 6-4 to clinch his second tour-level crown.

Shapovalov was competing in his first final since Vienna in 2022 and was chasing his second title, having triumphed in Stockholm in 2019. The lefty is up 22 spots to No. 56 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, his highest position since he was No. 45 in October 2023.

“It was extremely tough. Hamad has been playing extremely well and is a good young talent coming up,” Shapovalov said. “It is not easy playing the young guys. He served well and I was trying to do my best to get into his games and I got a bit lucky in the first set to break him. I hit a couple of lucky returns and kind of carried that momentum early into the second.”

With a beaming smile, Shapovalov dropped to the court after sealing victory before he received the trophy from Serbian legend Novak Djokovic.

The 25-year-old qualifier played aggressively throughout the 77-minute final, firing 13 aces and winning 82 per cent (28/34) of his first-serve points according to Infosys ATP Stats to cap his week in style.

Shapovalov missed the second half of last season due to injury and spent 2024 regaining his best level. The 25-year-old, who is the first Canadian to win a tour-level title this year, came through qualifying in Belgrade, where he dropped just one set to win the trophy.

“It has been a good season for me, just been healthy and back on court. It takes time to climb back up the rankings. A week like this will help a lot.”

Shapovalov’s best results in 2024 prior to this week came at ATP 500 events in Washington and Basel, where he reached quarter-finals.

Medjedovic was playing in his maiden ATP Tour final. The 21-year-old, who won the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF title last year, ends 2024 holding a 9-8 tour-level record on the season.

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