ATP World Tour 500 Tournament Hosted by Capitals of Japan and China

ATP World Tour (Association of Tennis Professionals) is organizing a 500 points tournament this week as the China Open in Beijing or the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2018. Juan Martin Del Patro, Alexender Zverev, Marin Cilic, Kevin Anderson and Kei Nishikoriare the favorites at the tournament are in the top 10 of the roster. While Roger Federer and Rafeal Nadal holds the record for most single title at 20 of this particular tournament in past.

ATP 500 title is running since 2005 and it’s been 14 years that Nadal has won at least one ATP 500 title from 2005-2018, an all-time record. When it comes to the prize money, it’s normal Prize money for men’s tournament in comparison to women. Beijing is prized at $3,401,806 on achieving 500 ranking points whereas the Rakuten Japan open is prized at $1,781,930 only. A tennis star from London, Del Potro currently ranked at third, is the favourite and Zverev, a German ranked at Fifth place in all time ATP World Tour Ranking, is also looking forward to lift his 10^th title of the tournament as other great players before turning 22. 2016^th Beijing finalist Grigor Dimitrov is 17^th in the ATP race to London, with 3250 points on the line in 2018. Fognini, an Italian reached his career-high rank of 13^th on 10^th September. A New comer, Wu Yibing made his debut to China Open as a Wild Card Sweeping the US Open boys singles and doubles title in 2017, currently in Top 300 of the ATP Rankings. While on the double race, top ranked team consista of Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic, have already qualified for Nitto ATP Finals. To the Surprise, 4 of the top 5 Next generation ATP players are contesting in Japan Open. Kei Nishikori, who has won six of his 11 ATP World Tour titles at the 500-level is the highest ranked Asian player, in ATP history, who has played 46 tour-level tournaments ever since. Some other Tokyo players like Stefanos Tsitsipas, Denis Shapovalov, Alex de Minaur and Frances Tiafoe are on the verge to qualify for the Next Gent ATP Finals. Of this only Shapovalov competed at the inaugural event, became the youngest semi-finalist in ATP Masters 1000 Madrid History. With a return of Stan Wawrinka has risen steadily to 75^th rank in September from 263 in June this year.

By: Anuja Arora

Content: https://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/beijing-tokyo-2018-scouting-report