While the off season is well underway, the final event as such of the season will take place between Friday December 5 – Sunday December 7 in the form of the UTS Grand Final.<\/p>\n
Hosted by Patrick Mouratoglou, it has been a concept which has been in effect since lockdown and sees a different angle placed on the sport of tennis.<\/p>\n
It sees quarters played instead of sets and will be played this year at the Copper Box Arena in London.<\/p>\n
Field\/Groups UTS Grand FinalGroup ANicknamePlayerThe DemonAlex de MinaurRubloAndrey RublevThe Air MacheteTomas MachacMannaAdrian MannarinoGroup BNicknamePlayerThe Ice ManCasper RuudEl CanonFrancisco CerundoloThe WallDavid GoffinThe CommanderUgo HumbertFormat UTS Grand Final<\/p>\n
The eight players will compete in two Round Robin groups with the top two in each group moving through to the semi-finals. Each session sees each group highlighted.<\/p>\n
Each match consists of four quarters of 8 minutes + the time of a hypothetical Sudden Death. The timer stops during the 3-minute changeover at the end of each quarter.<\/p>\n
The 1st player to win 3 QTS wins the match. If both players are tied at 2 QTs apiece, the 5th QT is played in a \u2018Sudden Death\u2019 format.<\/p>\n
Friday 5th Starting at 5pm Until 10pmAll Star Game and 4 matches (all players on court) and Round Robin #1Saturday 6th \u2013 Afternoon session Starting at 1pm Until 5pm4 matches (all player on court) and Round Robin #2Saturday 6th \u2013 Saturday evening Session Starting at 6:15 pm Until 10pm4 matches (all players on court) and Robin Robin #3 \u2013 deciding matches for qualificationSunday 7th \u2013 Final 4 Session Starting at 2:30pm Until 6pm3 matches (2 semi finals and final)Schedule Ultimate Tennis Showdown Grand FinalFriday 5 DecemberDate\/TimeRoundPlayer 1Player 2Result05\/12 17:00ExhibitionAll Star GamevAll Players\u201405\/12 18:00SinglesThe Commander \u2013 Ugo HumbertvThe Wall \u2013 David Goffin\u201405\/12 19:00SinglesRublo (4) \u2013 Andrey RublevvThe Air Machete \u2013 Tomas Machac\u201405\/12 20:00SinglesThe Demon (1) \u2013 Alex de MinaurvManna \u2013 Adrian Mannarino\u201405\/12 21:00SinglesThe Ice Man (2) \u2013 Casper RuudvEl Canon \u2013 Francisco Cer\u00fandolo\u2014Saturday December 5 (Afternoon Session)Date\/TimeRoundPlayer 1Player 2Result06\/12 13:00SinglesThe Air Machete \u2013 Tomas MachacvManna \u2013 Adrian Mannarino\u201406\/12 14:00SinglesThe Ice Man (2) \u2013 Casper RuudvThe Wall \u2013 David Goffin\u201406\/12 15:00SinglesThe Commander \u2013 Ugo HumbertvEl Canon \u2013 Francisco Cer\u00fandolo\u201406\/12 16:00SinglesThe Demon (1) \u2013 Alex de MinaurvRublo (4) \u2013 Andrey Rublev\u2014Saturday Evening SessionDate\/TimeRoundPlayer 1Player 2Result06\/12 18:15SinglesEl Canon \u2013 Francisco Cer\u00fandolovThe Wall \u2013 David Goffin\u201406\/12 19:15SinglesRublo (4) \u2013 Andrey RublevvManna \u2013 Adrian Mannarino\u201406\/12 20:15SinglesThe Ice Man \u2013 Casper RuudvThe Commander \u2013 Ugo Humbert\u201406\/12 21:15SinglesThe Demon (1) \u2013 Alex de MinaurvThe Air Machete \u2013 Tomas Machac\u2014Predictions<\/p>\n
Samuel Gill, Head Editor of TennisUpToDate.com sees Alex de Minaur retaining the title.<\/p>\n
First of all, it is a massive shame that Jack Draper isn’t playing as no doubt he would’ve been a massive selling point when it comes to the tournament being played again in London.<\/p>\n
But Alex de Minaur was so good last year so no doubt he will be again. He faces Adrian Mannarino first and I see Andrey Rublev and Casper Ruud also showing their class.<\/p>\n
Albeit he has been injured, this game style has often favoured the weird and wonderful so I think Ugo Humbert could thrive again. But all bets are off really as this format is so short and sharp and provides opportunity for the showmen to shine.<\/p>\n
Favourites<\/p>\n
*** Alex de Minaur<\/p>\n
** Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud<\/p>\n
* Ugo Humbert, Adrian Mannarino, Tomas Machac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the off season is well underway, the final event as such of the season will take place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,5592,85,747,184391,82976],"class_list":{"0":"post-329229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-other","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-tournament-centre","14":"tag-ultimate-tennis-showdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329229","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=329229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}