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PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin

Can Ruud, Rublev strengthen qualification hopes throughout essential Basel-Vienna week?

Stars could make up floor at ATP 500 occasions

October 21, 2024

The PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin continues to warmth up with three weeks remaining for gamers to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals. With two ATP 500 occasions this week, the Swiss Indoors Basel and Erste Financial institution Open, contenders for the season finale have a chance to earn important factors.

Seventh-placed Casper Ruud and eighth-placed Andrey Rublev will each attempt to shore up their standing this week after they compete in Basel. Ruud is 225 factors forward of Rublev, who owns a 265-point edge over ninth-placed Alex de Minaur.

“If you’re on this place, you concentrate on [the Nitto ATP Finals] rather a lot, in fact,” Ruud mentioned in Basel. “It’s a enjoyable chase and it’s thrilling… It’s good to have one thing to essentially encourage your self with.”

PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin (as of 20 October)

Ruud final certified for the Nitto ATP Finals in 2022, when he superior to the championship match (misplaced to Novak Djokovic). The Norwegian is in good place to earn his place within the season finale for the third time and may additional enhance his possibilities with a powerful efficiency in Switzerland.

The 25-year-old is the second seed in Basel and can play Antwerp champion Roberto Bautista Agut within the first spherical. It’s a troublesome opening matchup for Ruud, who trails Bautista Agut 1-2 of their Lexus ATP Head2Head collection.

Rublev is making an attempt to qualify for the year-end championships for the fifth consecutive season. He’s within the closing qualifying place, however shall be eager to make a deep run this week to construct his benefit over the chasing pack, led by De Minaur.

The Australian has by no means certified for the Nitto ATP Finals, however might enhance his probabilities of competing at Inalpi Area by advancing via the Vienna draw. De Minaur will open his event in opposition to Jan-Lennard Struff.

One other participant in search of his first Nitto ATP Finals qualification is Tenth-placed Tommy Paul, who improved his standing by successful the Stockholm title. The American is 485 factors behind Rublev for the ultimate qualifying spot, making a deep run in Vienna essential. Paul faces a tough problem within the first spherical in opposition to countryman Brandon Nakashima.

Eleventh-placed Grigor Dimitrov, the Stockholm runner-up and 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion, is competing in Vienna. Stefanos Tsitsipas, the 2019 season finale winner, is in motion in Basel.