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Jodar, Bailly charge towards Jeddah with big weeks

Rafael Jodar and Gilles Arnaud Bailly have made big moves in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah following dream weeks.

Spaniard Jodar has climbed nine spots to ninth in the Live Race after winning his second ATP Challenger Tour title of the season. The 19-year-old, who did not hit a double fault en route to the trophy in Lincoln, United States, was a sparring partner at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF in 2024 and is now firmly in contention of qualifying this year.

Jodar won the US Open Boys’ Singles title last season and has gone from strength to strength this season, also triumphing at a Challenger Tour event in Greece in August. He is on 267 points, 82 points behind eighth-placed Nishesh Basaverredy, who occupies the final qualification spot.

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Bailly has jumped four places to 11th in the Live Race. The 20-year-old Belgian enjoyed a breakthrough week on home soil at the ATP 250 event in Brussels, where he advanced through qualifying and then defeated Daniel Altmaier to secure his first tour-level win.

“I have always enjoyed the chance to play at an ATP event but to do this in my country, to qualify and then win a round was really special. I really hope to keep going now. It has been a good year for me,” Bailly said.

Bailly began the season outside the Top 800 in the PIF ATP Rankings but now sits at No. 232. The 20-year-old is proud with the progress he has made this season.

“I worked hard at the start of the year and started doing well at the Futures,” Bailly told ATPTour.com. “I then started to play more Challengers and saw my level going up and I was playing better and then had some good opportunities with the Next Gen spots, so I am grateful for that support.”

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The Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF will take place in Jeddah from 17-21 December. The cutoff date for the Live Race is 10th November, with the Top eight players qualifying for the 20-and-under event. Joao Fonseca won the title in 2024, joining a list of former champions that includes Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.

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Auger-Aliassime ramps up the pressure on Musetti in Turin battle following Brussels title

Felix Auger-Aliassime, Casper Ruud and Daniil Medvedev kept themselves in Nitto ATP Finals contention with title runs last week. ATPTour.com looks at the movers of the week in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin as of Monday 20 October.

Felix Auger-Aliassime – ninth (3,145 points), +1
The Canadian has climbed one spot and moved to within 340 points of eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti following victory in Brussels. The 25-year-old defeated Jiri Lehecka to win the crown, with his wife Nina Ghaibi watching courtside. Auger-Aliassime next heads to Basel and is aiming to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals for the second time (2022).

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Casper Ruud – 11th (2,735)
Ruud remains 11th in the Live Race but has made ground on Musetti after winning the title in Stockholm. The 26-year-old is the first Norwegian to triumph at the ATP 250 and is now 37-14 on the year, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

Danii Medvedev – 13th (2,560)

Could the 29-year-old qualify for the year-end event for the seventh consecutive season? The 2020 Nitto ATP Finals champion kept himself in contention by winning his first title in 882 days in Almaty, where he beat Corentin Moutet in the final to improve to 2-1 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series. Medvedev will search for more precious points at the ATP 500 in Vienna this week.

Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic have already qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals, taking place from 9-16 November at Inalpi Arena in Turin.

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Boulter's poor run continues with first-round loss

British number three Katie Boulter continues her poor run of form with defeat by German Eva Lys in the second round of the Pan Pacific Open.

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Will anyone chase down Musetti in chase for Nitto ATP Finals spot?

Is Lorenzo Musetti’s bid for a maiden Nitto ATP Finals qualification under threat from Felix Auger-Aliassime, Casper Ruud and Daniil Medvedev?

All three stars claimed ATP 250 titles on Sunday that could prove pivotal as the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin nears its climax. With 10th-placed Jack Draper sideline for the remainder of the season through injury, Auger-Aliassime (ninth), Ruud (11th) and Medvedev (12th) continue to pile the pressure on Musetti, who currently occupies the final qualification spot in eighth, and Alex de Minaur, who is just ahead in seventh..

Musetti has made it clear that a big goal this season is to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, which is especially important to the Italian given the event is played on home soil. But Musetti has never earned his place at the season finale before, while those behind him have.

Three years ago, Auger-Aliassime made a late charge into the field thanks to success during this same indoor season. Ruud is a three-time qualifier for the year-end championships, while Medvedev is pursuing his seventh consecutive qualification. 

PIF ATP Live Race To Turin (following Brussels, Stockholm, Almaty)

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Following his sixth ATP Tour title on indoor courts in Brussels, Auger-Aliassime trails Musetti by just 330 points. He is a proven contender on hard courts and the two-time Basel champion has the opportunity to further close the gap when he returns to the ATP 500 event.

Ruud clinched his maiden Stockholm trophy and sent a reminder. He is 740 points behind Musetti but could also push further when he competed in Basel.

Medvedev entered the Rolex Shanghai Masters in 20th place in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, but he reached the semi-finals and backed it up with a title run at the Almaty Open. The former Nitto ATP Finals champion is now 13th and will fancy his chances to gain more ground in Vienna and Paris, where he has triumphed in the past.

Musetti — along with sixth-placed Ben Shelton — is aiming to make his debut at the year-end championships. Fourth-placed Alexander Zverev, fifth-placed Taylor Fritz and seventh-placed Alex de Minaur all have experience at the Nitto ATP Finals, and they are still trying to secure their spot in Turin.

De Minaur made his debut one year ago and is trying to return to Inalpi Arena. The Australian has cushion in seventh place, but he is only 60 points ahead of Musetti.

Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic have already qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals. Sinner is the defending champion, while Alcaraz will chase his first title at the tournament. Djokovic is the record seven-time champion at the season finale. 

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2025 Vienna tennis prize money

The Erste Bank Open, an ATP 500 tournament in Vienna, Austria, which this year runs from 20-26 October, has announced a prize money total of €2,736,875 for the 2025 edition.

The singles champion will earn €511,835, while the winning doubles team will split €168,120. View the full prize-money breakdown and the PIF ATP Rankings points at stake below.

2025 Erste Bank Open Singles Prize Money

2025 Erste Bank Open Doubles Prize Money (per team)

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2025 Basel tennis prize money

The Swiss Indoors Basel, an ATP 500 tournament in Basel, Switzerland, which this year runs from 20-26 October, has announced a prize money total of €2,523,045 for the 2025 edition.

The singles champion will earn €471,823, while the winning doubles team will split €154,980. View the full prize-money breakdown and the PIF ATP Rankings points at stake below.

2025 Swiss Indoors Basel Singles Prize Money

2025 Swiss Indoors Basel Doubles Prize Money (per team)

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What is the Basel tennis schedule?

The 2025 Swiss Indoors Basel begins Monday, with Top 8 seeds Jakub Mensik and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina among those in action at the ATP 500 event. 

Mensik faces 18-year-old Swiss wild card Henry Bernet, who is competing in the main draw of a tour-level event for the first time. Davidovich Fokina opens against Lorenzo Sonego. 

View Monday’s full schedule below…

ORDER OF PLAY – MONDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2025
Center Court – start 14:00
Jenson Brooksby (USA) vs Alexandre Muller (FRA)
Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) vs [8] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP)

Not Before 18:30
OPENING CEREMONY

Not Before 20:00
[7] Jakub Mensik (CZE) vs [WC] Henry Bernet (SUI)

IWB Court 1 – start 12:00
Austin Krajicek (USA) / Nikola Mektic (CRO) vs [WC] Marc-Andrea Huesler (SUI) / Jakub Paul (SUI)
[WC] Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs Joao Fonseca (BRA) / Rafael Matos (BRA)

Not Before 15:30
[Q] Remy Bertola (SUI) vs Jaume Munar (ESP)
Robert Cash (USA) / JJ Tracy (USA) vs Sander Arends (NED) / Luke Johnson (GBR)

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Auger-Aliassime fuels Turin chase with Brussels triumph

Felix Auger-Aliassime took the long road to victory on Sunday, but he did so in style to capture the title at the BNP Paribas Fortis European Open in Brussels.

The 25-year-old Canadian outlasted Jiri Lehecka 7-6(2), 6-7(6), 6-2 and firmly reignite his bid to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals. Auger-Aliassime couldn’t convert two championship points in the second-set tie-break, but ultimately regrouped to carve out a clinical win.

With his two-hour, 34-minute victory, Auger-Aliassime jumped to ninth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, narrowing the gap to Lorenzo Musetti to just 330 points as the battle for the season finale heats up. However, he will like his chances during the European indoor swing.

The triumph marks Auger-Aliassime’s eighth ATP Tour title — tied with Milos Raonic for the most among Canadian men in the Open Era — and his sixth on indoor hard courts. He owns the most wins on indoor hard courts (76) since the start of the 2020 season, highlighted by consecutive titles at the ATP 500 in Basel.

In a serve-dominated final in Brussels, Auger-Aliassime was able to lean on his trademark power and razor-sharp groundstrokes to regroup in the deciding set and improve to 2-1 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Lehecka.

Auger-Aliassime’s 2025 campaign has been a rollercoaster. After roaring into the season with titles in Adelaide and Montpellier, a dip in form midway through the year raised questions. But since late summer, he has looked rejuvenated — reaching the US Open semi-finals and Shanghai quarter-finals before his run to a second title at the Belgian ATP 250.

For Lehecka, it was a familiar heartbreak on Belgian soil. The 23-year-old Czech, who lost last year’s final when it was held in Antwerp, couldn’t capitalise on the stretch of big hitting that led him into a third set.

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Sinner's Vienna Voyage: Tracing the Italian's evolution at the ATP 500

Few tournaments chart Jannik Sinner’s evolution quite like the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.

The Italian paid his first visit to Vienna as an 18-year-old wild card in 2019, when he made his maiden ATP 500 main-draw appearance. Six years later, Sinner returns to Vienna for his sixth appearance and as a former champion, having lifted the trophy in 2023.

Flashback to 2019 and Sinner’s Vienna outing marked an important milestone in his teenage breakthrough. Beyond the viral moment of him casually munching on a carrot during a changeover, Sinner notched a first-round win over respected veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber — his seventh tour-level victory — to secure his place in the Top 100 of the PIF ATP Rankings.

Sinner arrived in Austria following a semi-final run at the ATP 250 in Antwerp and then after Vienna, he won the 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF and an ATP Challenger Tour event in Ortisei, Italy.

Upon returning to Vienna in 2020, Sinner’s stay would be short as a leg injury forced his retirement in the second round. But he came back stronger in 2021, advancing to the semi-finals. That run propelled him into the Top 10, just two years removed from reaching the Top 100 at the same tournament.

Sinner’s fifth Vienna appearance proved to be his finest. Sinner stormed through the draw to lift the trophy, defeating four players who have all spent time inside the Top 10: Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe, Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev. At the time, Rublev and Medvedev were both Top 5 players.

Sinner’s championship-match victory against top-seeded Medvedev was a three-hour, six-minute thriller. It marked Sinner’s second win against Medvedev, who won their first six meetings. Since then, Sinner has turned the rivalry on its head, winning eight of their past nine encounters to take an 8-7 lead in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.

Watch Highlights Of Sinner’s 2023 Vienna Final Win vs. Medvedev:

Weeks after toppling Medvedev in Vienna, Sinner repeated that feat in the Nitto ATP Finals semi-finals to earn a spot in the Turin title match. Novak Djokovic ultimately denied Sinner in the final, during which the Serbian claimed a record-breaking seventh title at the season finale.

Now a 21-time tour-level titlist with more than 300 career wins and 65 weeks spent as World No. 1, Sinner has come a long way since his 2019 Vienna debut. With each visit, Sinner’s time in Austria’s capital city serves as an opportunity to reflect on his journey. He started on the ATP Tour as a fast-rising teenager making his mark and has grown into one of the sport’s established superstars.

Sinner is the top seed in Vienna, with fellow Top 10 stars Alexander Zverev, Alex de Minaur and Lorenzo Musetti also in action. Sinner, 43-6 on the season according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, is seeking his fourth title of the year. He triumphed at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and in Beijing.

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