{"id":862381,"date":"2026-08-18T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862381\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:00:11","slug":"rune-bublik-and-darderi-lead-first-names-for-uts-gothenburgs-finale-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862381\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune, Bublik and Darderi lead first names for UTS Gothenburg\u2019s finale in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has twice been the closest to a UTS title without winning one, finishing runner-up in London in 2023 and again in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bublik shares that distinction of near misses, having lost the 2024 New York final. Darderi, now established in the top 20, arrives as the debutant of the trio but hardly a stranger to Swedish clay. He won the ATP title in B\u00e5stad in 2025 and returned to defend it in 2026, losing the final to Andrey Rublev, one of the UTS Tour\u2019s own past champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The format itself runs across two days, four quarter-finals on the opening day narrowing the field before classification matches, the semi-finals and the final settle both the title and the year-end standings, with up to US$511,000 waiting for the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gothenburg, backed by BNP Paribas, closes a season that opened with F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime\u2019s win at the Bastide UTS N\u00eemes in April and continued with Brandon Nakashima\u2019s title run at UTS Rio presented by XP in July \u2013 a breakout result for a player making his UTS debut.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has twice been the closest to a UTS title without winning one, finishing runner-up in London in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-862381","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\/862381","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=862381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}