The tennis of the future will be played from December 9 to 13 in Reggio Calabria and Italy makes a clean sweep: on the sidelines of the US Open in New York, Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, Andre Silva, Chief Tour Officer of the ATP, and Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region, announced that the Next Gen Tennis Finals will take place in exactly three months.
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The years in Milan
The youth Finals, which launched stars like Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, thus return to the country where they were born: the tournament among the eight best players of the next generation was hosted from 2017 in Milan before moving in 2023 to Saudi Arabia, which however in recent months has been sidelined by the war.
“We must thank the ATP for the credibility it gave us with this event that we launched for the first five years in Milan,” said Binaghi, noting that Riyadh had for many years been seen as the possible alternative solution to the Turin Finals: “Not only did they not get them, but now they give us the under 20s.”
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Italy clean sweep
The Next Gen thus join the Davis Cup in Bologna and the Turin Finals: “It had never happened before,” said Binaghi, “that the three major end-of-season events took place in the same country.”
“The future of world tennis will be played in Reggio: the best talents of tomorrow will compete at the PalaCalafiore and the eyes of the tennis world will be focused on Calabria,” observed Occhiuto with pride, while Binaghi explained that Southern Italy was chosen because Italians are living the passion for tennis in a visceral way and the FITP is trying to organize the events in a way to satisfy it, from South Tyrol to Calabria.
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