TENNIS NEWS • ALEXANDER ZVEREV QUALIFIES FOR NITTO ATP FINALS IN LONDON • WITH RAFA AND ROGER • BUY TICKETS

Written by: Staff on 6th October 2017

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TENNIS NEWS • ALEXANDER ZVEREV QUALIFIES FOR NITTO ATP FINALS IN LONDON • WITH RAFA AND ROGER • BUY TICKETS

epa06129488 Alexander Zverev of Germany celebrates after defeating Kevin Anderson of South Africa after their men's singles final match of the 2017 Citi Open Tennis Tournament at the Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Washington, DC, USA, 06 August 2017. Zverev won the match 6-4, 6-4. EPA/PETE MAROVICH |

ALEXANDER ZVEREV QUALIFIES FOR NITTO ATP FINALS

Twenty-year-old Alexander Zverev is set to make his debut at the Nitto ATP Finals, to be held 12-19 November at The O2 in London. A winner of two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles this season, the German joins Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the 2017 field, leaving five places up for grabs with six weeks to go until the season-ending tournament.

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““I think it’s great for any player to qualify for a prestigious event that we have in London,” said Zverev, who attended the tournament in 2015 to receive his ATP Star of Tomorrow Award presented by Emirates. “It’s really an award for, I think, every player that shows that you’ve been one of the best players, not only for one or two weeks in a year, but you’ve been one of the best players for the whole year. That’s something special. That’s an amazing achievement for me, and I think for all the other guys, as well.

“The atmosphere is amazing in London. I’ve been there for the award that I got two years ago. So hopefully it’s going to be similar to that. I know it’s going to be a very special event for me.”

Alexander Zverev of Germany in action against Kyle Edmund of Britain during their men’s singles first round match of the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Center in Beijing, China, 03 October 2017. EPA-EFE/ROMAN PILIPEY

Zverev, who qualified by reaching the semi-finals at the China Open in Beijing, is the youngest player to clinch a berth at the season finale since a 20-year-old Juan Martin del Potro in 2008 and the first German singles qualifier since Rainer Schuettler in 2003.

One year since lifting his first ATP World Tour trophy at the St. Petersburg Open, Zverev has won five in 2017 – tied with Nadal and Federer for the most singles titles this season. With his triumphs on clay at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome (d. Djokovic) and on hard court at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal (d. Federer), he became the first player outside the ATP’s ‘Big Four’ to win multiple Masters 1000 titles in a season since David Nalbandian in 2007.

Zverev additionally won the ATP World Tour 500 title at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., and claimed a pair of ATP World Tour 250 titles – at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier and BMW Open by FWU in Munich. In Montpellier, he also teamed up with older brother Mischa Zverev to win the doubles title.

The Nitto ATP Finals welcomes more than 250,000 fans to The O2 arena each year, as well as generating a global TV viewership of more than 100 million, as the ATP’s best eight singles players and doubles teams compete over eight days at the biggest indoor tennis tournament in the world.

About the Nitto ATP Finals

The Nitto ATP Finals is the year-end climax to the men’s professional tennis season, featuring only the world’s best eight qualified singles players and doubles teams as they battle it out for the last title of the season. Players compete for Emirates ATP Rankings points throughout the season in a bid to earn one of the eight coveted berths and a chance to win the biggest indoor tennis tournament in the world. Played using a round-robin format, each player plays three matches as they compete for a berth in the knockout semi-finals and beyond. The prestigious tournament has been contested in major cities around the world with a rich history dating back to the birth of The Masters in 1970 in Tokyo. Since 2000 the event has taken place in cities such as Lisbon, Sydney, and Shanghai. In 2009 the tournament was moved to London, where it will be played through 2020. For more information, please visit www.NittoATPFinals.com.

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