By virtue of hosting the tournament, Australia have been given a wild-card entry. Getty Images Djokovic has a 4-2 record against Zverev, falling to the German in two big finals—Rome in 2017 and the ATP Finals in 2018. I think Pablo and I today did a great job," said Bautista Agut. Group stage [ ] The 12 teams were divided into four groups of three teams each in a round-robin format. Lastly, the hosts team, Australia, is in this group and led by Alex De Minaur. 6 in doubles in November 2010. Estoril• Antwerp• Bautista Agut served to level the set at 5-5, but De Minaur had other ideas. Bautista Agut capitalised on a series of forehand errors from De Minaur to establish a 2-1 lead and forced a decider when his opponent misfired another forehand on set point. 2s: Dusan Lajovic Serbia , Jan-Lennard Struff Germany and Milos Raonic Canada. Maximum 500 points for undefeated singles player, 250 points for doubles. 2 Lajovic, who won four of his six singles matches en route to the trophy last year. There are a few surprises on the list given this qualification criteria. Philipp Oswald• Germany vs Canada could be a tightly fought fixture, with Zverev likely to go toe-to-toe against Shapovalov. After a COVID-19 case at a tournament quarantine hotel, all matches scheduled for 4 February were suspended. The day sessions will start at 10am local time 11pm the night before here in the UK while the night sessions will start at 5. But if their 2020 form is anything to go by, the Austrian should emerge with a 2-0 record in the group. Buenos Aires• — The following players defended a main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles: Singles• favorite-block' [index]; favoriteBlockElementToRemove. Antalya• One year ago, Serbia battled through the field to lift the inaugural trophy in Sydney. Can he keep his winning streak going at the ATP Cup? Germany and Australia could be considered dark horses. The draw will be broadcast on the so fans can follow from around the world. Laver Cup• Fabio Fognini• In January 2021, he announced that he would retire after the 2021 season. Reigning champion leads Team Russia alongside fellow Top 10 star , and World No. US Open• Kevin Krawietz• Daniil Medvedev• A complete the and the 48 players currently committed to the tournament can be found at the bottom of the page. Lyon• Melbourne 2• Singapore• termTaxonomyId , title : favoritedElement. Newport• He found his serve, great rhythm. Russia• There will be a singles matchup between the two top-ranked singles players, a second singles matchup between the second-highest-ranked singles players of each country, and finally, a doubles matchup. 1 in doubles in June 1999 and No. 2s: Dennis Novak Austria , Fabio Fognini Italy and Benoit Paire France. splice index, 1 ; if userFavoritedTaxonomyIds. Aslan Karatsev• append createFavoriteChoices choice, 'favorite' ; popularListBlock. 3 , will look to advance through Group C against Italy and France. Melbourne 1• Match-up predictions Austria to defeat Italy 2-1 France to defeat Austria 2-1 France to defeat Italy 2-1 Predicted semifinalist: France Matches to watch out for: Dominic Thiem vs Gael Monfils, Fabio Fognini vs Benoit Paire Advertisement Group D: Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev make a fearsome duo for Russia at the ATP Cup Daniil Medvedev Group members: [4] Russia, [7] Argentina, [9] Japan Expected semifinalist: Russia Rosters Russia - Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Aslan Karatsev, Evgeny Dosnkoy Argentina - Diego Schwartzman, Guido Pella, Horacio Zeballos, Maximo Gonzalez Japan - Kei Nishikori, Yoshihito Nishioka, Ben McLachlan, Toshihide Matsui Like Spain, Russia boasts of a solid squad in both the singles and doubles departments. For the Germans, both Alexander Zverev and Jan-Lennard Struff have the potential to beat players above them in the rankings, whilst Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies defended their doubles title at the 2020 French Open. 41 Kei Nishikori will lead their countries to battle in Group D, with Medvedev on the run of his life—he won 10 matches in a row to finish off 2020, which included seven wins over Top 10 players, lifting a Masters 1000 title in Paris and his biggest title yet at the ATP Finals. Melbourne 1• Night session: Group A winner vs Group D winner, Group B winner vs Group C winner Saturday 6 February• 1 singles position when Rafael Nadal announced he would miss the tie due to a stiff lower back. Gstaad• Indian Wells• Michail Pervolarakis• splice index, 1 ; removeClass event. Rafael Nadal• The ATP Cup takes place from 1 — 5 February 2021. Cincinnati• Team Serbia was the defending champion, but got eliminated in the group stage. Novak Djokovic of Serbia shakes hands with Rafael Nadal at ATP Cup 2020. Importantly, Nick Kyrgios will not be in team Australia this year since he is not one of the highest seeded players in his country due to the fact he has not played a tournament since the last year. The draw for the ATP Cup took place on Friday, with the 12 participating nations divided up into four groups of three for the team event, which takes place Monday to Friday, February 1 to 5, 2021. Where to watch ATP Cup 2021 in the USA and Canada? Dusan Lajovic• Cumulated importance of those titles one Grand Slam win equalling two Masters 1000 wins, one undefeated ATP Finals win equalling one-and-a-half Masters 1000 win, one Masters 1000 win equalling two 500 events wins, one 500 event win equalling two 250 events wins ;• Atlanta• Cincinnati• Melzer retired from singles in October 2018 and has only played doubles competitions on the ATP Tour since then. Doha• Alexander Zverev• Geneva• Australian Open• Match-up predictions Spain to defeat Greece 3-0 Spain to defeat Australia 2-1 Australia to defeat Greece 2-1 Predicted semifinalist: Spain Matches to watch out for: Rafael Nadal vs Stefanos Tsitsipas, Rafael Nadal vs Alex de Minaur, Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Alex de Minaur Group C: Can Dominic Thiem better Austria's performance in the ATP Cup? Contents• It was originally supposed to take place with 12 teams in , and from 1 to 10 January 2021, but was changed due to the impact of the. Nadal leads Tsitsipas in their head-to-head, 6-1, which includes 4-0 on hard courts. url, taxonomy: favoritedElement. Edouard Roger-Vasselin Canada• Key Grand Slam Summer Olympics ATP Finals ATP Tour Masters 1000 ATP Tour 500 ATP Tour 250 Titles won by player [ ] Total Player Grand Slam Olympic Games ATP Finals Masters 1000 Tour 500 Tour 250 Total S D X S D X S D S D S D S D S D X 2 CRO 0 2 0 2 CRO 0 2 0 1 SRB 1 0 0 1 CRO 0 1 0 1 SVK 0 1 0 1 USA 0 0 1 1 ARG 1 0 0 1 AUS 1 0 0 1 GBR 1 0 0 1 POL 1 0 0 1 AUS 1 0 0 1 ITA 1 0 0 1 BEL 1 0 0 1 URU 0 1 0 1 ECU 0 1 0 1 BEL 0 1 0 1 FIN 0 1 0 1 BRA 0 1 0 1 BRA 0 1 0 1 GBR 0 1 0 1 FRA 0 1 0 1 BRA 0 1 0 1 BEL 0 1 0 Titles won by nation [ ] Total Nation Grand Slam Olympic Games ATP Finals Masters 1000 Tour 500 Tour 250 Total S D X S D X S D S D S D S D S D X 3 CRO 1 2 0 3 0 2 AUS 2 2 0 0 2 GBR 1 1 1 1 0 2 BEL 1 1 1 1 0 2 BRA 2 0 2 0 1 SRB 1 1 0 0 1 SVK 1 0 1 0 1 USA 1 0 0 1 1 ARG 1 1 0 0 1 ITA 1 1 0 0 1 POL 1 1 0 0 1 ECU 1 0 1 0 1 FIN 1 0 1 0 1 FRA 1 0 1 0 1 URU 1 0 1 0 Titles information [ ] The following players won their first main circuit title in singles, doubles or mixed doubles: Singles• Eastbourne• born 22 May 1981 in , joined the professional tour in 1999 and reached a career-high ranking of No. Serbia 2 - 1 Canada 2nd Feb - 00h15 def. Complete details regarding to players participation fees updated once it confirmed from the sources. 1 , will lead Group A, which will also consist of Germany and Canada. Bastad• Many players will have missed this throughout 2020 and will hopefully revel in the opportunity to feed off of the crowd. 2s: Andrey Rublev Russia , Guido Pella Argentina and Yoshihito Nishioka Japan. Yoshihito Nishioka• Singapore• Dubai• Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and will also before the ATP Cup, so they won't be completely bereft of match practice heading into the team event. Week of Tournament Status 4 January , , , Australia Hard — 24 teams Postponed to 1 February, reduced to 12 teams and moved to Melbourne , Qatar ATP Tour 250 Hard Postponed to 8 March 11 January , New Zealand ATP Tour 250 Hard Cancelled , Australia ATP Tour 250 Hard Postponed to 1 February and moved from Adelaide to Melbourne 18 January 25 January , Australia Grand Slam Hard Postponed to 8 February 1 February , India ATP Tour 250 Hard Postponed , Argentina ATP Tour 250 Clay Postponed to 22 February , France ATP Tour 250 Hard i 8 February , Netherlands ATP Tour 500 Hard i Postponed to 1 March , Argentina ATP Tour 250 Clay , United States ATP Tour 250 Hard i Cancelled 15 February , Brazil ATP Tour 500 Clay Red Postponed 8 March 15 March , United States ATP Tour Masters 1000 Hard 5 April , United States ATP Tour 250 Clay Maroon Cancelled , Morocco ATP Tour 250 Clay Red Postponed Statistical information [ ] These tables present the number of S , D , and X titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2019 ATP Tour: the tournaments, the , the , the , and the. After a dramatic first set which featured seven service breaks, the second set was decided by a single game. Entries [ ] 11 countries qualified based on the ATP Ranking of its highest-ranked singles player on 4 January 2021 and their commitment to play the event. Headlining this group is team Spain, who will be led by World No. Getty Images Group C: Austria, Italy, France No. Both Rafael Nadal or Pablo Carreno Busta could comfortably pair with Granollers in the doubles. Advertisement Stefanos Tsitsipas Greece on the other hand seem like a one-man army. Following Pablo Carreno Busta's 6-2, 6-4 win against Millman, Bautista Agut created 17 break points and broke De Minaur on five occasions to move Spain to 1-0 in Group B after two hours and 21 minutes. The first team to win two matches in the tie wins that tie, and the four teams that finish first in their groups move on to the semifinals, which are knock-out format. Beijing• Alexander Zverev, on the other hand, had a tumultuous time both on and off the court in 2020. ATP Cup• The 2021 will feature 12 of the Top 13 players in the FedEx ATP Rankings. Bautista Agut received regular support from Nadal in Spain's team zone. I was there in a lot of return games. Host country Australia received a wild card. Second seed Spain, which finished runner-up in 2020, will aim to move through Group B, which includes Greece and Australia. The 12 teams will be divided into four groups of three for group stage, round-robin play. With Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev being Russia's top-ranked singles players, it looks unlikely for either Argentina or Japan to beat them. won a record-extending ninth title, defeating in the final. Total number of titles a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation ;• Serbia could be considered the favourites to win in 2021. It remains to be seen how well the likes of Diego Schwartzman and Guido Pella fare against the solid hardcourters of Japan and Russia. Cordoba• " was the key," said Djokovic. The 2021 is the global elite men's professional circuit organised by the ATP for the 2021 tennis season. Day session: Serbia vs Germany, Austria vs France• Novak Djokovic vs Alexander Zverev head-to-head The ATP Cup group stage meeting is the seventh encounter between the two players, and Novak Djokovic currently leads the head-to-head 4-2 over Alexander Zverev. Next Gen ATP Finals• Of course now, [we need to] continue fighting, because they play at home and they're a really good team. , Denis Shapovalov, Pablo Carreno Busta, Milos Raonic and Fabio Fognini are some of the other exciting names in the mix. It all depends on how Zverev is feeling on the day as he is also capable of playing below his ranking, losing all three matches last year. We can learn a lot of things staying around him. Group C Team Austria will be commanded by Dominic Thiem, who will try to have a better performance than last year. 6-7 6-3 7-6 3rd Feb - 05h50 def. indexOf parseInt unfavoritedElement. Andrey Rublev is the strongest second-seeded player by far in this tournament. It will have the reigning champions Serbia, who will be led by World No. Monte Carlo• Denis Shapovalov• setAttribute 'style','padding-top:0px' ; favoritesSearchInput. For the British Audience, ATP Cup will be on Amazon Prime Video. 3-6 6-3 6-4 5th Feb - 02h35 def. The 2021 ATP Tour calendar comprises the tournaments supervised by the ITF , the , the , the , the and the. The draw for the 2021 edition of the will be held on Friday, 22 January at 12:00pm AEDT 1am GMT. Kitzbuhel• Bhavishya has a keen eye for catching eventful happenings in the sports world. Diego Schwartzman• It has also been reduced in size from 24 teams to just 12 and shortened from more than a week to a five-day event, which will be shown live on Amazon Prime Video for viewers in the UK. Photographs courtesy of Getty Images and ATP tournament. Bautista Agut entered the match with a perfect 6-0 record 12-0 sets at the ATP Cup, but he found himself a set down after a rapid start from De Minaur. On Day 3, Serbia will face off against Germany, Spain will play Greece, Austria will battle France, and Argentina will play Japan. Alex de Minaur• Gstaad• But Jan-Lennard Struff might face an uphill battle against the higher-ranked Milos Raonic. Advertisement However, Zverev has been under intense media scrutiny amid the domestic abuse allegations from his ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova. Marbella• 1 Player Captain Serbia Spain Pepe Vendrell Austria Wolfgang Thiem Russia Greece Germany Argentina Italy Japan France Canada Australia HOW TO WATCH THE DRAW , a winner of 22 Grand Slam doubles titles, will be joined by former and finalist and to conduct the draw. As such, several players have chosen not to take part in the ATP Cup, preferring instead to play in the ATP 250 tournament going on at the same time. 113 in singles in June 2017 and No. Madrid• Night session: Semi-final 1 winner vs semi-final 2 winner Draw Group A• But Djokovic is one of the greatest returners the sport has ever seen, and he fared particularly well against Zverev's big serve at the ATP Finals last November. Andreas Mies Argentina• Theoretically, Zverev does have the tools to make this an exciting match. Los Cabos• Petersburg• The 2021 ATP Cup will take place from 1 to 5 February, and is one of the precursor events to the. The Spaniard is 3-0 against De Minaur, but like Djokovic and Shapovalov their last meeting also came here at the ATP Cup last year, and it was a nail-biter—Nadal barely survived that one in the semifinals, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. Lastly, Japan is commanded by veteran Kei Nishikori ,who is currently World No. Mallorca• 1 seed , Germany, Canada World No. Halle• push userFavoritedData ; userFavoritedTaxonomyIds. He continued to apply the pressure against Lajovic in the second set, and claimed the victory after an hour and 20 minutes. Nicolas Mahut• Hamburg• Doha• Night session: Spain vs Greece, Argentina vs Japan Friday 5 February• The draw was hosted by , with participation from , , and. He's such a dynamic, explosive player; very talented. Rotterdam• Toronto• Montpellier• Melbourne 2• Team Russia won the tournament, defeating Italy 2—0 in the final. Markos Kalovelonis• Indian Wells• Marseille• Marrakech• 2 led Spain into the final last year, winning four of his five matches along the way before running into a dialed-in Djokovic, falling to the Serb in straight sets. He won five titles in singles and played for. Cordoba• setItem favoritesCookieName, JSON. Miami• born 27 March 1992 in , joined the professional tour in 2009 and reached a career-high ranking of No. setAttribute 'href', getTaxUrl popular[i]. Official Martin Oosthuysen and Tournament Director Tom Larner will oversee proceedings. Roland Garros• Maximo Gonzalez Italy• It will not be an easy task for team Serbia as the other two teams have great competitive players in their ranks. Countries ranked 5 to 8 will then be randomly drawn, followed by countries ranked 9 to 12. Spain• Spain will look to once again head to the final and this time win it all. The following tournaments were cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Denis Shapovalov at the 2020 ATP Cup Needless to say, the defending champions of the ATP Cup will depend greatly on Novak Djokovic, who is expected to win both his singles matches. I thought we played on a very high level, so I'm really pleased with how I've started the season. Australian Open• Serbia, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, Canada, Greece, Australia, Italy, France, Argentina and Japan are the nations that have qualified for the ATP Cup this year. Raonic grew in confidence as the match unfolded, converting the lone break opportunity to finally pull away at 5-3 before sealing the set with an ace. The round-robin stage will see every country play the other two countries in their group, with each tie including two singles matches and one doubles match. Washington• 8 in singles in April 2011 and No. addEventListener 'click', onRemoveFavoritedTaxonomy ; favoritesClonedNode. The field is set for the 2021 edition of the ATP Cup. In the group fixtures Rafael Nadal will face both Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alex de Minaur. Dominic Thiem and complete the top four seeds along with their respective nations. Tournament• In the end, it was some really quality tennis from both players, and Alex was unlucky to lose. born 4 June 1983 in , joined the professional tour in 2002 and reached a career-high ranking of No. New York• Hamburg• Tournament• Raonic dropped only three points on serve in the first set and five in the second, keeping Lajovic in check as the Serbian tried to jam him with body serves of his own. Santiago• The 29-year-old was in command against Serbian No. — Doubles• Miami• After the match, Djokovic thanked fans for the atmosphere they helped to create. Archived from on 29 June 2011. The Serbians found their rhythm after a sluggish start against Raonic and Shapovalov, who powered an early break opportunity in the first set.。 。 。
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