{"id":310772,"date":"2025-11-26T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310772\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:36:08","slug":"learner-tien-qualifies-for-next-gen-atp-finals-presented-by-pif-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310772\/","title":{"rendered":"Learner Tien qualifies for Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ATP Tour<br \/>\n    Former finalist Tien qualifies for Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/p>\n<p>American set for second appearance in Jeddah<\/p>\n<p>November 26, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tien-ng-qualification-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/learner-tien\/t0ha\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learner Tien<\/a> will return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/next-gen-atp-finals\/7696\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a>. The 19-year-old American booked his spot after a standout first full season on Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty ended last year by reaching the title match in Jeddah and built on that success at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a>, where he defeated Top 10 star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniil-medvedev\/mm58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a>. Tien reached the fourth round in Melbourne to become the youngest player to reach that stage at the hard-court major since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-nadal\/n409\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>You May Also Like: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/tien-first-time-winner-spotlight-metz-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learner Tien: First-Time Winner Spotlight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tien then stunned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-zverev\/z355\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> at the ATP 500 event in Acapulco, where he enjoyed a quarter-final run. He also reached the fourth round at ATP Masters 1000 events in Toronto and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Tien\u2019s best result came at the ATP 250 event in Metz this month, when he won his first tour-level title, defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/cameron-norrie\/n771\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Norrie<\/a> in the final. The American also tasted success at the ATP 500 event in Beijing, where he reached the championship match. Tien eliminated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lorenzo-musetti\/m0ej\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> and Medvedev in China. He ended the season holding a 5-4 record against Top 10 players, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, and is at a career-high No. 28 in the PIF ATP Rankings, having started the year outside the Top 120.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/next-gen-atp-finals\/7696\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a> will take place from 17-21 December. Former champions include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jannik-sinner\/s0ag\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/carlos-alcaraz\/a0e2\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Former finalist Tien qualifies for Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF American set for second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-310772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}