Eight of the world’s elite men’s professional tennis players, including American Taylor Fritz, will compete for a $1 million prize pool at the MGM Slam in Las Vegas next year.<\/p>\n
The exhibition in March will feature a 10-point tiebreak knockout format. Fritz<\/a>, the world number six and highest-ranked American, will headline the event. He will be joined by compatriot Tommy Paul<\/a>, who is currently ranked 20th.<\/p>\n Also competing are Norway\u2019s Casper Ruud<\/a>, Australia\u2019s Nick Kyrgios<\/a>, Brazil\u2019s Joao Fonseca<\/a>, France\u2019s Gael Monfils<\/a>, Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> and Kazakhstan\u2019s Alexander Bublik<\/a>.<\/p>\n In its third year, the MGM Slam has featured several high-profile match-ups, including last year’s showcase between Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> and Naomi Osaka<\/a>, and one of Rafael Nadal<\/a>‘s final appearances before his retirement.<\/p>\n The event comes at a time when tennis is facing criticism over its relentless tour schedule.<\/p>\n In March, the Professional Tennis Players\u2019 Association (PTPA) filed a lawsuit against the sport’s governing bodies, including the ATP and WTA, labelling the crowded calendar unsustainable.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, exhibition matches continue to be scheduled.<\/p>\n World number one Jannik Sinner<\/a> and second-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, who have won nine of the last 10 Grand Slam titles between them, will meet in South Korea in January.<\/p>\n The exhibition, which takes place eight days before the Australian Open, has featured tennis greats such as Roger Federer<\/a>, Nadal, Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Maria Sharapova<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight of the world’s elite men’s professional tennis players, including American Taylor Fritz, will compete for a $1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-334172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334172","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=334172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}