ATP ATP 2021

[BobbyMorri]

Slower start to the ATP season than the girls. Only one-top 10 player is playing this week. The schedule for the ATP for the first couple of weeks are below. I will post the teams of the ATP Cup below.

Dates	Location	Tournament
5-13 Jan.	Delray Beach	Delray Beach Open
5-13 Jan.	Antalya	Antalya Open
10-13 Jan.	Doha	Australian Open Qualifying
31 Jan. - 6 Feb	Melbourne	Great Ocean Road Open
31 Jan - 6 Feb	Melbourne	Murray River Open
1-5 Feb.	Melbourne	ATP Cup
8-21 Feb.	Melbourne	Australian Open

 

[BobbyMorri]

Serbia Novak Djokovic Dusan Lajovic Filip Krajinovic Nikola Cacic	Argentina Diego Schwartzman Guido Pella Horacio Zeballos Maximo Gonzalez
Spain Rafael Nadal Roberto Bautista Agut Marcel Granollers Pablo Carreno Busta	Italy Matteo Berrettini Fabio Fognini Simone Bolelli Andrea Vavassori
Austria Dominic Thiem Dennis Novak Philipp Oswald Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	Japan Kei Nishikori Yoshihito Nishioka Ben McLachlan Toshihide Matsui
Russia Daniil Medvedev Andrey Rublev Aslan Karatsev Evgeny Donskoy	France Gael Monfils Benoit Paire Nicolas Mahut Edouard Roger-Vasselin
Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas Michail Pervolarakis Markos Kalovelonis Petros Tsitsipas	Canada Denis Shapovalov Milos Raonic Peter Polansky Steven Diez
Germany Alexander Zverev Jan-Lennard Struff Kevin Krawietz Andreas Mies	Australia Alex de Minaur John Millman John Peers Luke Saville

Interesting they are letting players not playing the Aus open(thinking of the Greek players here) into the country to play this. Nick the 3rd rated Aussie so missed out on the singles. Good to see Kai Nishikori back. A couple of good teams there. Spain is always strong, as is Russia and Canada. And Serbia, of course, has Novak. (but so does Austria ......., totally worth the Edit)

Hard to say who will win as it is so close to the Open and coming off 2 weeks in a hotel room. The form will be impossible to gauge and how seriously will players take it with the open the week after. So my prediction is mayhem and upsets galore.

So, teams are separated into 4 groups of 3 with the top 4 qualifying to the semis. Draw is not out yet but will post once it is.

 

[BobbyMorri]

The Demon is in the semi finals of Antalya 2. playing Goffin

 

[matt_897]

De Minaur through to the final after beating Goffin in 3. Faces the madman Bublik in the final.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Draw is out

Group A
Serbia
Germany
Canada

Group B
Spain
Greece
Australia

Group C
Austria
Italy
France

Group D
Russia
Argentina
Japan

 

[matt_897]

Looking forward to the exciting rematch of Millman/Pervolarakis...

In all seriousness, there will be some fun matches in there.

 

[yaco55]

The pop up tournament in Singapore immediately after the OZ Open will get a better field because France has implemented a seven day quarantine/isolation if you fly in from outside the EU - It's bad news for the Montpellier tournament.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Interesting that nicks name is on the entry list of Montpellier,

You would think most of Europes players would like to get home anyway. Europe is a mess atm.

 

[yaco55]

Kyrgios and Barty will have to play overseas this year or they will have no ranking - I am interested in the reception Barty receives from (the limited overseas journalists in OZ ) about her decision to stay in OZ, and not support the tour, especially as number one ranked player in the world - My information is there are few players and officials who are unhappy that she didn't play at one of the US Open or the French Open - At this stage, players will play anywhere to earn cash until there is more clarity about the calendar - Anyway the tournaments pre and post Ozi Open give players the opportunity to financially set up their season for the first half.

 

[bato]

Managed to grab a semi final and final ticket. Felt like I needed to spoil myself a bit

 

[Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever]

Is Rafa playing against the Aussies?

 

[JackNah_8]

Kyrgios and Barty will have to play overseas this year or they will have no ranking - I am interested in the reception Barty receives from (the limited overseas journalists in OZ ) about her decision to stay in OZ, and not support the tour, especially as number one ranked player in the world - My information is there are few players and officials who are unhappy that she didn't play at one of the US Open or the French Open - At this stage, players will play anywhere to earn cash until there is more clarity about the calendar - Anyway the tournaments pre and post Ozi Open give players the opportunity to financially set up their season for the first half.

They will eventually have to travel like the other players.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Is Rafa playing against the Aussies?

Would be facing the demon.

Can't see him not playing it. Will need match practice.

 

[Hamingja]

How did they decide which players go to which tournament? Odds and evens on the ranking or something. If they are both 250s why do they have different prizemoney?

 

[Hamingja]

They will eventually have to travel like the other players.

Barty won so much cash the year before COVID hit she really doesn't need to. Even when she starts losing her ranking she can use the TA wildcards to start back up whenever she wants.

 

[JamisonRun40]

Personally I think Barty will travel outside of Oz rather than Nick as he doesn't seem to care. Family and healthy seem more important to him and maybe his new girlfriend. If I was one of their sponsors I wouldn't be happy as I think why should I pay you if you are sitting at home.

 

[JackNah_8]

Personally I think Barty will travel outside of Oz rather than Nick as he doesn't seem to care. Family and healthy seem more important to him and maybe his new girlfriend. If I was one of their sponsors I wouldn't be happy as I think why should I pay you if you are sitting at home.

Once he starts losing money or sponsors, he will start travelling again to play tennis

 

[Hamingja]

Nick will have to. Barty made like $20 million when you convert US $ to AUS $ in 2019 and doubt she has a flashy lifestyle sucking up the dollars off the court so she will be able to do whatever she wants.

 

[yaco55]

Barty is a professional tennis player, so she will have to travel to continue her career - I doubt she'll give up tennis.

 

[Hamingja]

Thiem starting the year slow again.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Is Rafa playing against the Aussies?

Would be facing the demon.

Can't see him not playing it. Will need match practice.

errr...opps.

"Injures" are coming thick and fast atm.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Russia wins the ATP Cup, after not losing a single match. Very very strong group of players.

 

[juice t]

Russia wins the ATP Cup, after not losing a single match. Very very strong group of players.

Medvedev has a real shot at taking No.3 from Thiem if Domi doesn't make another final run

Only 430 points behind and only has to defend 4th Round points

 

[JackNah_8]

Well done Sinner, won his 2nd ATP tournament


I think it's his second win

 

[Hamingja]

J P Smith being a professional tennis player is a shocker.