Brandon Nakashima beat Tommy Paul in the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 tournament in Lyon

The ATP brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category. (Infobase)

the american player Brandon NakashimaATP number 52 and seeded number 8, won by 6-3 and 7(7)-6(4) in one hour and fifty-two minutes to the American player tommy paulnumber 17 ATP and seeded number 3, in the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 tournament at Lyons. After this result, the American takes control of the post for the semi-finals of the ATP 250 tournament in Lyons.

Paul managed to break his opponent’s serve twice, while Nakashima, for his part, did it three times.

The tournament will continue with the confrontation between Nakashima and the winner of the match between the Canadian player Felix Auger-Aliassime and the French tennis player Arthur Phil.

The tournament celebration Lyons (ATP Lyon) takes place May 20-27 on outdoor clay. During the competition, a total of 39 tennis players compete and a total of 28 advance to the final phase. The players are drawn from those who qualified directly, those who won in the previous rounds of the tournament and the guest players.

Tennis is unquestionably a classic sport. Each year, four tournaments (called “Grand Slams”) attract all the attention of the world: the season begins with the australian opencontinue with the dirt track of Roland Garrosthen moved to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the United States with the U.S. Open.

The rest of the year, players also compete around the world completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay either grass.

Tennis was born in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sports, the date the tour was created. It was particularly popular among the upper classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a world sport. Divides into two categories: the male (ATP) and female (WTA) competition.

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

The ATP circuit organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (if a player wins the tournament, he will take 1000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower echelon is the ATP Challenger Tour, where future stars compete world tennis. Moreover, he is also in charge of the Grand Slam tournaments.

The fight to be the best in history does not stop in the men’s category. The Spaniard Raphael Nadalhe Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and add the most Grand Slam tournaments. The three players are often called ‘big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These promising tennis stars entered the world tennis circuit with a bang, as in the case of the Greek player Stefanos Tsitsipasfrom Italian Matteo Berretinigerman Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev And Rublev.

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

There WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was founded in 1973 by the famous former tennis player billie jean king. The Californian has won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active career and is an icon in the world of tennis.

Currently, many tennis players in the female category are also fighting to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari either Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the famous top 10 of the WTA rankings.

In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his permanent retirement from the world of tennis and ended an impressive career with several Grand Slam tournaments behind him. Now is the time for other players to take over and become number 1.

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