Casper Ruud said goodbye to the Tokyo tournament

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

The American player Marcos Giron won in the round of 16 of the tournament Tokyo For 6-3 and 6-4 in Norwegian Casper RuudATP number 8 and seed number 2. With this result we will closely follow the player’s career in the next phase of the championship.

In the next round which will take place today, Wednesday from 5:00 p.m. Spanish time, we will have the confrontation between the American player and the Canadian tennis player. Felix Auger-Aliassimenumber 17.

The tournament of Tokyo (Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships) takes place from October 16 to 22 on an outdoor hard court. A total of 32 players are participating in the championship.

Tennis retains its undisputed position as a classic sport in the sporting world. Once a year, the four major tournaments called “Grand Slams” attract worldwide attention. The season begins with Australian Opento continue with the clay track of Roland Garrosthen moved to London for the iconic celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the USA with the US Open.

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

Tennis has its origins in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926, it has been a professional sport opening date of the tour. Although in its early days it was particularly popular among the upper classes in English-speaking countries, today it is a sport with global reach. Tennis is divided into two categories main: the men’s competition (ATP) and the women’s competition (WTA).

There ATP (Association of Professional Tennis Players) brings together professional tennis players from around 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 get 1000 points to add to the ATP rankings), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, on a lower rung would be the ATP Challenger Tour, where future stars compete of world tennis. . Additionally, the ATP tennis tournament is also in charge of the Grand Slams.

The battle for the title of best tennis player of all time continues among men. Numbers like Spanish Carlos Alcaraz or Serbian Novak Djokovic They compete to break records and accumulate the most titles.

Future tennis stars have burst onto the world circuit. Among them are the Greeks Stefanos TsitsipasItalian Matteo BerrettiniGerman Alexander Zverev and the Russians Medvedev and Rublev.

Currently, Novak Djokovic has held the record for weeks as number 1 in the ATP rankingsfollowed closely by Roger Federerthe American legend Pete Sampras, Ivan Lendl And Jimmy Connors.

The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was inaugurated in 1973 by former tennis player Billie Jean King. King, originally from California, who has accumulated 39 Grand Slam titles during his career and is a reference and icon for the world of tennis.

In today’s era, many tennis players in the women’s category are also fighting to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Names like Polish Iga Swiątek (winner of several Grand Slams), the Americans Coco Gauff And Jessica PegulaGreek Maria Sakkari either Paula Badosa (the first Spaniard to win Indian Wells) is striving to stay in the top 10 of the WTA rankings.

Theodore Davis

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