Holger Rune is at the moment eighth within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Turin as he tries to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals for the primary time. However this week with three tournaments — the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships, the BNP Paribas Nordic Open and the European Open — being performed, the battle for a spot on the season finale may drastically change.
Rune is at the moment 145 factors forward of ninth-placed Taylor Fritz. The Dane will give attention to what he can management in Stockholm, the place he’s the highest seed and defending champions. The 20-year-old would add 250 factors to his complete with a title.
“Undoubtedly one of many objectives is to have the ability to get into Turin, the Finals, on the finish of the 12 months,” Rune instructed the media on the China Open in Beijing. He later added: “I’ll attempt to give attention to what I do as an alternative of what everyone else is doing.”
Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Turin Standings
From sixth via 18th place within the Reside Race, 12 of the 13 gamers are in motion this week. The one exception is Sixteenth-placed Grigor Dimitrov, who made the Shanghai semi-finals.
Each participant from ninth via fifteenth place is competing in Tokyo, the place the champion will add 500 factors to his tally. If Fritz wins the title, he’ll leapfrog Rune within the Reside Race regardless of how the Dane performs in Stockholm.
Fifth-placed Andrey Rublev, who just isn’t in motion this week, constructed a 660-point benefit over sixth-placed Stefanos Tsitsipas by advancing to the Shanghai last. Tsitsipas can claw nearer to Rublev and additional safe his standing with a deep run on the European Open in Antwerp, the place he’s the highest seed.
Seventh seed Alexander Zverev, a two-time Nitto ATP Finals champion, is enjoying in Tokyo. The German is 305 factors forward of Rune and will lengthen his benefit this week. He’s attempting to qualify for the season finale one 12 months after struggling a extreme ankle damage at Roland Garros, which stored him out for the remainder of the season.
“It is good to be again within the Prime 10. It is good to be again in competition for Turin as effectively,” Zverev instructed ATP Media. “If I proceed enjoying the best way I used to be enjoying the previous few months I believe I’ve nice possibilities.
“Getting back from an damage like that the place I used to be out for seven months, the place I did not know what my stage could be coming again, being in competition for Turin and making Turin, that may be an important achievement.”