Ultimate Tennis Showdown: Tsitsipas will be back in 2021
The Ultimate Tennis Showdown, the fighting tournament at Patrick Mouratoglou's academy, will continue in 2021. Along with others: Stefanos Tsitsipas and Gael Monfils .
by tennisnet.com
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Mar 09, 2021, 06:07 pm
The "Greek God" is back, maybe "The Hammer" will be back at Patrick Mouratglou's academy when the fourth edition of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown is due to take place at the beginning of April. For the first time on ashes, after all the big European clay court tournaments are coming up after that. Stefanos Tsitsipas has already raised his hand, no wonder, the Greek has been training at Mouratoglou near Nice for years. It remains to be seen whether the Italian hammer, Matteo Berrettini, will return to attend.
After all, Gael Monfils, Fabio Fognini , Alexander Bublik and Corentin Moutet have already agreed, and the field of participants will consist of eight players from April 5th to 7th. It will be interesting to see whether the organizers have also considered other rule changes in addition to changing the surface. The first tournaments were played for time, the participants were allowed to "steal" serves from their opponents and were allowed to increase the stake once per game.
So far, Matteo Berrettini, Alexander Zverev ("The Lion") and Alex de Minaur ("The Demon") have been able to sign up for the winners list at the show event in the south of France and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ("The Thunder") at the only event for women.
In the week after the fourth edition of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, the traditional tournament in Monte Carlo is the first classic of the clay court season. Fittingly, almost within bike distance of the Mouratoglu Tennis Academy.