2023-11-11 14:19:00
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Before the last preliminary round tournament in Seoul, the two wildcards for the final event of the “Ultimate Tennis Showdown” in London were announced Holger Rune and Jack Draper forgive. Also jumps Casper Ruud as a substitute.
by Dietmar Kaspar
last edited: November 11, 2023, 11:16 a.m
After his first appearance as a teenager, Holger Rune is starting this time as a top 10 player at the UTS event.
The field of participants for the UTS Grand Final from December 15th to 17th is increasingly taking shape. Before the last tickets are awarded at the last preliminary round event in Seoul, South Korea (November 30th to December 3rd, 2023), the two wildcard starters for the final event at the ExCel, a conference center in the London area, were announced.
Local spectators can look forward to local hero Jack Draper. The 21-year-old left-hander is on the way to his old form on his comeback after a long injury break and is in an ATP final for the first time after his semi-final victory against Jan-Lennard Struff from Warstein at the 250 tournament in Sofia.
With the Northern Europeans Holger Rune and Casper Ruud, the British spectators are treated to two top 10 players. The 20-year-old Dane started the first edition of the event in 2020 at the age of 17 in the academy of series founder Patrick Mouratoglou as No. 827 in the world at the time. The 24-year-old Ruud steps in for the Chinese Wu Yibing, who is unable to qualify for direct qualifying after winning the first preliminary round tournament in Los Angeles due to a foot injury.
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In addition to the Frankfurt winner Andrey Rublev, the Frenchman Gael Monfils has already been confirmed, and he can no longer be displaced due to the points tally of all tournaments. The remaining three tickets will go to the winner of the event in Seoul and the two players who have qualified for the final in the overall standings. The German Davis Cup player Struff, who made his comeback after a long-term hip injury at the event in Frankfurt, will also be at the start in the South Korean capital.
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