'Don't know how I won' – Swiatek triumphs in Seoul
World number two Iga Swiatek stages a remarkable comeback to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova and win the Korea Open.
World number two Iga Swiatek stages a remarkable comeback to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova and win the Korea Open.
The 2025 China Open will host an elite roster of men’s players for a week in Beijing, China. Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Alex de Minaur, Lorenzo Musetti and Daniil Medvedev will be in action this year.
Here’s what you need to know ahead of the Chinese tournament:
The ATP 500 event will be held from 25 September to 1 October. The hard-court tournament, established in 1993, will take place at the National Tennis Centre. The tournament directors are Lars Graff and Alfred Zhang Junhui.
Sinner, Zverev, De Minaur, Musetti, Karen Khachanov, Andrey Rublev, Jakub Mensik and Medvedev are among the field in China.
The China Open draw will be made on Tuesday, 23 September at 2:30 p.m.
Qualifying: Tuesday, 23 – Wednesday, 24 September at 11 a.m.
Main Draw: Thursday, 25 September – Wednesday, 1 October
Start time: Thursday, 25 September – Sunday, 28 September at 11 a.m. & Monday, 29 September and Tuesday, 30 September from 12 p.m.
Night sessions from 7 p.m.
Doubles Final: Wednesday, 1 October at 11:30 a.m.
Singles Final: Wednesday, 1 October NB 2 p.m.
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The prize money for the China Open is $3,720,165.
SINGLES
Winner: $751,075 / 500 points
Finalist: $404,105 / 330 points
Semi-finalist: $215,360 / 200 points
Quarter-finalist: $110,030 / 100 points
Round of 16: $58,735 / 50 points
Round of 32: $31,320 / 0 points
DOUBLES ($ per team)
Winner: $246,690 / 500 points
Finalist: $131,560 / 300 points
Semi-finalist: $66,560 / 180 points
Quarter-finalist: $33,290/ 90 points
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Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner 6-7(6), 6-4, 7-6(3) in the final to claim the 2024 title. Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori won the doubles title, overcoming Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 in the championship match.
Most Titles, Singles: Novak Djokovic (6)
Most Titles, Doubles: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (3)
Oldest Champion: Rafael Nadal, 31, in 2017
Youngest Champion: Rafael Nadal, 19, in 2005
Highest-Ranked Champion: No. 1s Novak Djokovic in 2013-15 and Rafael Nadal in 2017
Lowest-Ranked Champion: No. 34 Nikoloz Basilashvili in 2018
Last Home Champion: None
Most Match Wins: Novak Djokovic (29)
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[NEWSLETTER FORM]The Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships will host tennis’ elite for a week in the 2025 season. Among those in action are Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Holger Rune and Casper Ruud.
Here’s what you need to know ahead of the Japanese tournament:
The ATP 500 event will be held from 24 September to 30 September. The hard-court tournament, established in 1972, is played at the Ariake Tennis Forest Park. The tournament director is Shigefusa Kanroji.
World No. 1 Alcaraz, 2022 champion Fritz, Rune, Ruud, Tomas Machac and Frances Tiafoe are among those set to compete in Tokyo.
The Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships draw will be made on Monday, 22 September at 2:00 p.m.
[ATP APP]Singles Qualifying: Monday, 22 September – Tuesday, 23 September at 11:00 a.m.
Doubles Qualifying: Tuesday, 23 September at 11:00 a.m.
Main Draw Singles and Doubles: Wednesday, 24 September – Sunday, 28 September at 11 a.m. & 4:00 p.m. Monday, 29 September from 2 p.m.
Doubles Final: Tuesday, 30 September at 2 p.m.
Singles Final: Tuesday, 30 September NB 6 p.m.
The prize money for the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships is US $2,226,470.
SINGLES
Winner: $416,365/ 500 points
Finalist: $224,035 / 330 points
Semi-finalist: $119,395/ 200 points
Quarter-finalist: $61,000 / 100 points
Round of 16: $32,560 / 50 points
Round of 32: $17,365 / 0 points
DOUBLES ($ per team)
Winner: $136,760 / 500 points
Finalist: $72,940 / 300 points
Semi-finalist: $36,900 / 180 points
Quarter-finalist: $18,460 / 90 points
Round of 16: $9,550 / 0 points
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Arthur Fils defeated Ugo Humbert 5-7, 7-6(6), 6-3 in the men’s singles final last year. The Frenchman saved a championship point in the second-set tie-break. In the doubles final, Britons Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool also saved a championship point and overcame Ariel Behar and Robert Galloway 6-4, 4-6, 12-10.
Most Titles, Singles: Stefan Edberg (4)
Most Titles, Doubles: Ken Flach (3), Rick Leach (3)
Oldest Champion: Ken Rosewall, 38, in 1973
Youngest Champion: Jimmy Arias, 18, in 1982
Highest-Ranked Champion: No. 1 Stefan Edberg in 1991, No. 1 Pete Sampras in 1994, 1996, No. 1 Roger Federer in 2006, No. 1 Rafael Nadal in 2010, No. 1 Novak Djokovic in 2019
Lowest-Ranked Champion: No. 121 Kenneth Carlsen in 2002
Last Home Champion: Kei Nishikori in 2014
Most Match Wins: Stefan Edberg (27)
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[NEWSLETTER FORM]Carlos Alcaraz’s return to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings for the first time since 2023 didn’t go as planned, but he insists that he came up against the better player.
The 22-year-old Spaniard’s 13-match winning streak, which included his milestone US Open triumph, came to an end at the hands of a fired-up Taylor Fritz at the Laver Cup on Saturday night. Alcaraz committed 19 unforced errors to Fritz’s 10, and later reflected on the match.
“It wasn’t the match that I was expecting, but I think I have to look a little bit to him that I think he played great tennis,” said Alcaraz. “I just wasn’t as solid as I wanted in the match, and I think these conditions, it’s pretty slow. The balls are really big, so I had to be solid. I didn’t play that match today.
“Taylor played a great match, really solid, playing aggressive when he could. I think everything went to his side, so I had to congratulate him and that he played a much better game than I did.”
Team Europe trailed 3-5 heading into their leading player Alcaraz’s night-session clash, but the Spaniard was unable to come up with solutions across his 6-3, 6-2 defeat. Asked whether the weight of being World No. 1 played on his mind, Alcaraz dismissed the idea.
“Not really. Today I feel like I had to win the point, because the way that the day is going, with the two losses, I feel like I had to win my match,” Alcaraz said. “It was a little bit of extra pressure, because of the way that the day was going on, but it wasn’t because I’m the No. 1 in the world.
“I think the ranking is just a number. It shouldn’t give you the pressure that you have to win everything and every match. I’m there, but you have to still do the things that you were doing before. But with the two losses, I felt a little bit of extra pressure.”
It marked Fritz’s first Lexus ATP Head2Head win over Alcaraz in his fourth attempt, giving Team World a 7-3 lead before Alex de Minaur and Alex Michelsen improved that to 9-3 with their doubles win over Casper Ruud and Holger Rune.
Alcaraz, who owns a 61-7 record this season, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, will try to make amends when he faces Francisco Cerundolo on Sunday evening in Team Europe’s bid to win its second consecutive title at the teams event.
Cerundolo, who dispatched Rune in straight sets on Saturday, is another player known for his aggressive game, and Alcaraz will have to find the solutions he was unable to against the big-hitting Fritz.
“I feel like he was more on the court than me,” Alcaraz said of Fritz. ”I think that the first or second shot of the rally was really important, and I think he did it much better than I did. I think that was the key, because as I said, in these conditions, I think the first shots are really important.
“When you are defending, when you are running on the court, it is really difficult to turn around the situations. It is really difficult when you are defending, turning to attack is really difficult because of the balls and the conditions that are really slow. As I said, Taylor was right. He was more aggressive than me. He did much better on the first shots than me, and I was running more than him. I think that was the key today.”
[NEWSLETTER FORM]American Taylor Fritz stuns world number one Carlos Alcaraz as Team World turn things around to take a 9-3 lead on day two of the Laver Cup.
On Sunday one team will win the Laver Cup at San Francisco’s Chase Center, an arena very familiar with championship trophies thanks to one of the building’s primary tenants, the Golden State Warriors.
Superstar Stephen Curry has led the Warriors to four NBA titles since 2015, including one in 2022 after the team’s move to Chase Center three years prior. With the Laver Cup being played in Curry’s house, the 37-year-old point guard was on hand for Saturday night’s action and performed the coin toss ahead of Taylor Fritz’s upset win against Carlos Alcaraz, the No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings.
When Curry walked out onto the court with Roger Federer, the sell-out crowd let out perhaps its biggest roar of the night. As Alcaraz and Fritz posed for a pre-match picture with the two legends, their teammates and captains rushed the court to take part in the photo opp, with Agassi particularly enthused.
“It’s pretty sick. It’s pretty hard to not be really just pumped up to play a match when that’s kind of like the intro to the match,” Fritz said after his upset win against the Spaniard. “Definitely no shortage of just adrenaline for this one.”
A longtime tennis fan, Curry has been a repeat visitor at the US Open and attended this year’s men’s singles final in New York between Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
[NEWSLETTER FORM]Taylor Fritz earned his first Lexus ATP Head2Head win in four tries against Carlos Alcaraz to extend a perfect Saturday for Team World at Laver Cup.
In a 6-3, 6-2 victory, the American imposed his powerful game on the new No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, dictating from the baseline at every opportunity and enjoying great success at net in the upset. Fittingly, he closed the match with a forehand volley winner, looking more like vice captain Pat Rafter than delighted captain Andre Agassi.
“We’ve been talking all day. It’s been an honour to play under Andre,” Fritz said post-match. “Both of us love to share our thoughts about the game. I knew what I had to do out here tonight. The question was whether I was going to be able to do it.”
Buoyed by the San Francisco crowd, which let out a roar when Golden State Warriors’ star Stephen Curry walked onto the court with Roger Federer for the coin toss, Fritz kept the volume up in Chase Center by taking the match to Alcaraz.
Fritz’s win staked his team a 7-3 advantage in the first-to-13 event, with each Saturday match counting for two points.
Alcaraz was playing his first singles match since winning his sixth Grand Slam singles title at the US Open and returning to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings. The defeat snapped a 13-match winning streak that dated back to the start of his trophy run at the Cincinnati ATP Masters 1000 event.
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Alex de Minaur turned his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Alexander Zverev upside down Saturday at the Laver Cup.
The Australian upset the No. 3 player in the PIF ATP Rankings 6-1, 6-4 to draw Team World level with Team Europe at three points each. Team World’s Francisco Cerundolo faces Team Europe’s Holger Rune to close the day session.
“I started out of the blocks pretty quickly and I was playing some great tennis,” De Minaur said. “I knew it was only going to get harder. He’s a great competitor. He was going to make my life very difficult, but utlimately I’m so proud of myself [for] backing myself in these important moments and getting a big win for Team World.”
Zverev entered the clash with an 8-2 lead in their rivalry and in De Minaur’s two victories, he needed three grueling sets to emerge victorious. But in San Francisco, De Minaur took advantage of the slow, low-bouncing conditions by changing his game.
Former World No. 1 Jim Courier noted in his on-court interview that De Minaur used his backhand slice to great effect, like Roger Federer, who was in the stands, used to do.
“I don’t want to say too much,” De Minaur said. “But he wrote the playbook, I just read it.”
The 10-time ATP Tour titlist saved three of the four break points he faced according to Infosys ATP Stats and converted four of his seven opportunities.
[NEWSLETTER FORM]Great Britain’s wait for a first Billie Jean King Cup title goes on as they suffer a 2-0 loss to the United States in the semi-finals.
Watch the best shots, as the United States’ Jessica Pegula fights back from a set down to beat Katie Boulter and knock Great Britain out of the Billie Jean King Cup at the semi-final stage.