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(1) Holger Rune (DEN) WR 18 (age 19)

(4) Brandon Nakashima (USA) WR 50 (age 21)

(5) Jiri Lehecka (CZE) WR 75 (age 20)

(8) Francesco Passaro (ITA) WR 122 (age 21)

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(2) Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) WR 23 (age 20)

(3) Jack Draper WR 45 (age 20)

(6) Chun-Hsin Tseng (TPE) WR 90 (age 21)

(7) Dominic Stricker (SUI) WR 116 (age 20)



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RR1: (3) Jack Draper WR 45 vs (7) Dominic Stricker (SUI) WR 116

Last match in the Tuesday night session.

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Rune has withdrawn and been replaced by (9) Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) WR 140 to make it three Italians in the draw.

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wolf wrote:

Rune has withdrawn and been replaced by (9) Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) WR 140 to make it three Italians in the draw.

He was the player who beat Liam in three sets in Bergamo last week. 



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Great to have Jack in the line up. Here's hoping for a good week for him.

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I hadn't realised that Rune ( like Alcaraz ) was still just 19yo.

Just won the Paris Masters too to be 1st alt for the ATP Finals.

I am guessing that this Next Generation event falling between his Paris run and his possible ATP Finals participation is why he has withdrawn.



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The next gen is officially here - looking forward to seeing some very exciting players over the next few years , Jack D amongst them. Tennis always has a habit of doing a Dr Who on us.

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JonH comes home wrote:

The next gen is officially here - looking forward to seeing some very exciting players over the next few years , Jack D amongst them. Tennis always has a habit of doing a Dr Who on us.

Going to be a very interesting event. Pity it's lost Rune but understandable. And yes looking more healthy in general for the coming years.



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Jack's match should be not to far away now. Previous match in a 5th set. I was not aware of this format, each set to '4' only. Really weird .........

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Julia Carrot wrote:

Jack's match should be not to far away now. Previous match in a 5th set. I was not aware of this format, each set to '4' only. Really weird .........

 Next gen is the innovation Lab of the atp. Some work, some dont. I like the scoring system, not every week but it creates more key moments in a match 



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Huge fan of Stricker
Always have been since Roland Garros
And this has been a high level match
But Jack is two sets down.....

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JonH comes home wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:

Jack's match should be not to far away now. Previous match in a 5th set. I was not aware of this format, each set to '4' only. Really weird .........

 Next gen is the innovation Lab of the atp. Some work, some dont. I like the scoring system, not every week but it creates more key moments in a match 

 I do like that they are using this event to try out possible innovations. While I may be very unsure about some, none seem particularly 'out there' or distracting in this one tournament and I feel that they overall add to an already interesting event.



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3-4 3-4 indeed.

Matches at this level typically average just over 4 mins per game, a bit more on clay and hard than grass. This match is bang on. The 5 set match earlier was 2 hours 11. The other matches around 1 hour for 3 sets. So these are relatively short, sharp matches in this event.

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Holding the TBs at 3-3 is interesting. For now these sets are too short for me as I want a set to develop more of a storyline but I wouldn't be too adverse to a slight change in the normal format to have TBs at 5-5 rather than 6-6.



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indiana wrote:

Holding the TBs at 3-3 is interesting. For now these sets are too short for me as I want a set to develop more of a storyline but I wouldn't be too adverse to a slight change in the normal format to have TBs at 5-5 rather than 6-6.

 For a while the old WCT circuit had a large number of events with 5 all tiebreaks . 

in fact , the first ever Tour Finals (Masters) in Tokyo in 1970 used 5 all tie breaks!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Pepsi-Cola_Masters_%E2%80%93_Singles

 

 Rod laver beat Ken rose wall 5-6 6-3 6-5 for example in the round Robin . 



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 8th of November 2022 10:36:40 PM

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