The two groups of the Next Gen ATP Finals have been determined

As if without end, the tennis season stretches every year like a piece of gum and, after the ATP Finals in Turin who crowned Novak Djokovic again as ‘teacher’ and of Davis Cup Finals of these days in MalagaFans will still have another competition next week: the Next Gen ATP Finals from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia).

Carlos Alcaraz (2nd in the world ranking), Holger Rune (8th)the American Ben Shelton (17th) and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (27th)the four best under-21 players currently, will not be included Jeddah because the flight of all of them is taking other higher paths.

With these absences, the 2023 event has been more decaffeinated this time around, but the Frenchman Arthur Filswhere the technical team is the Catalan Sergi Bruguerais another young tennis player with a lot of potential and leads the group of eight contestants in the Under-21 Masters.

Fils, world number 36, was placed in the green group with the Swiss Dominic Stricker (92nd) and the Italians Flavio Cobolli (100º) and Luca Nardi (118º), while the French Luca Van Assche (66th), the American Alex Michelsen (94th), the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic (111º) and the Jordanian Abdullah Shelbayh (187th), student of Rafa Nadal Academythey form a red group.

The list of Next Gen ATP Finals champions is many things Hyeon Chung (2017), Stefanos Tsitsipas (2018), Jannik Sinner (2019), Carlos Alcaraz (2021) and Brandon Nakashima (2022). Fils will try to join that list in Jeddah, which will host the tournament from next Tuesday, November 28 to Saturday, December 2, the day of the final.

The tournament will distribute a total of two million dollars and an undefeated champion can take home 514,000.