The tennis player Yuta Shimizu, qualified for the final of the Jakarta tournament

Yuta ShimizuJapanese and seeded number 4, fulfilled the forecasts by winning in one hour and thirty-four minutes per 6-4 y 7(10)-6(8) a Mukund SasikumarIndian tennis player, number 433 in the ATP and seeded number 1, in the semifinals of the tournament of She fought. After this result, the player manages to qualify for the final of the tournament of She fought.

The Indian tennis player managed to break his opponent’s serve once, while Shimizu did it twice.

We will know the winner of the tournament during the final between the Japanese player and the winner of the match between the Japanese player Ryota Tanuma and the japanese Shintaro Imai.

in the tournament of She fought (ITF Indonesia F1) involved a total of 74 players. In addition, it takes place between August 7 and 14 on an outdoor hard court.

Tennis, a sport much loved by the public

Tennis is undoubtedly a classic sport. Every year, four tournaments (the so-called ‘Grand Slams’) concentrate all the world’s attention: the season begins with the Open the Australiacontinues with the clay track of Roland Garrosthen moved to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and finally concludes in the United States with the US Open.

In the rest of the year, players also compete around the world completing seasons on the different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay o herb.

Tennis was born in Europa at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sport, date on which the tour was created. It was especially popular among the wealthy classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a global sport. It’s divided in of the categories: the men’s (ATP) and the women’s (WTA) competition.

ATP

The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players that brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP tour organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (where the winner of the tournament will take 1,000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, on a lower step, is the ATP Challenger Tour, where the future stars of world tennis fight. In addition, the ATP tennis is also in charge of the Grand Slam.

The fight to be the best in history is still latent in the men’s category. The Spanish Rafael Nadalthe Serbia Novak Djokovic and the swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all the records and collect the largest number of Grand Slams. The three players are popularly referred to as ‘Big Three‘ versus the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These promising tennis stars have entered the global tennis circuit with a bang, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasof the Italian Matteo Berrettinithe German Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev y Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 of the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

WTA

The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was created in 1973 by the famous former tennis player Billie Jean King. The Californian won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active career and is a benchmark and icon for the world of tennis.

Currently, there are many women’s tennis players who compete to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (champion of Roland Garros in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari o Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the top 10 of the WTA ranking.

In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his definitive retirement from tennis and ended an impressive career with several Grand Slams behind him. Now it is the turn of the other players to take the witness and become number 1.

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