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
Schedule\/Results 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 Goffin3-1 (21-12, 18-17, 16-15, 10-5)05\/12 19:00SinglesRublo (4) \u2013 Andrey RublevvThe Air Machete \u2013 Tomas Machac3-0 (14-13, 17-10, 18-15)05\/12 20:00SinglesThe Demon (1) \u2013 Alex de MinaurvManna \u2013 Adrian Mannarino3-1 (13-12, 16-8, 11-12, 14-12)05\/12 21:00SinglesThe Ice Man (2) \u2013 Casper RuudvEl Canon \u2013 Francisco Cer\u00fandolo2-3 (11-12, 14-13, 15-11, 13-14, 2-4)Saturday December 5 (Afternoon Session)Date\/TimeRoundPlayer 1Player 2Result06\/12 13:00SinglesThe Air Machete \u2013 Tomas MachacvManna \u2013 Adrian Mannarino3-2 (16-11, 14-11, 13-17, 11-13, 2-0)06\/12 14:00SinglesThe Ice Man (2) \u2013 Casper RuudvThe Wall \u2013 David Goffin3-0 (14-9, 16-7, 17-9)06\/12 15:00SinglesThe Commander \u2013 Ugo HumbertvEl Canon \u2013 Francisco Cer\u00fandolo3-1 (16-10, 14-12, 11-18, 16-9)06\/12 16:00SinglesThe Demon (1) \u2013 Alex de MinaurvRublo (4) \u2013 Andrey Rublev3-1 (13-12, 8-18, 16-12, 13-12)Saturday Evening SessionDate\/TimeRoundPlayer 1Player 2Result06\/12 18:15SinglesEl Canon \u2013 Francisco Cer\u00fandolovThe Wall \u2013 David Goffin3-0 (19-8, 15-12, 18-7)06\/12 19:15SinglesRublo (4) \u2013 Andrey RublevvManna \u2013 Adrian Mannarino3-2 (12-17, 11-13, 18-11, 18-12, 2-0)06\/12 20:15SinglesThe Ice Man \u2013 Casper RuudvThe Commander \u2013 Ugo Humbert3-2 (13-12, 8-16, 8-15, 14-12, 2-0)06\/12 21:15SinglesThe Demon (1) \u2013 Alex de MinaurvThe Air Machete \u2013 Tomas Machac3-1 (10-15, 16-11, 16-13, 16-12)Predictions<\/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
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)<\/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":330099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,6797,82,593,145567,64157],"class_list":["post-330098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-other","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tournament-centre","tag-ultimate-tennis-showdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}