{"id":233325,"date":"2025-10-18T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233325\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:53:10","slug":"what-happened-when-jannik-sinner-was-given-a-wildcard-to-the-2019-next-gen-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233325\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened when Jannik Sinner was given a wildcard to the 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jannik Sinner is one of the world\u2019s very best tennis players, but where did it all begin?<\/p>\n

The Italian player won his first major at the Australian Open<\/a> in 2024, and since then, he\u2019s won three more, with Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> taking the other four across the same period. <\/p>\n

Sinner won the ATP Finals<\/a> in 2024, and once the Six Kings Slam<\/a> is out of the way, all roads will start to lead towards the end-of-year event, which he will be keen to defend. <\/p>\n

But what happened when Sinner<\/a> was actually entered in the Next Gen ATP Finals, which take place to celebrate the game\u2019s brightest young talents?<\/p>\n

The results were extremely impressive\u2026<\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesWhat happened when Jannik Sinner was given a wildcard to the 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals<\/p>\n

Sinner didn\u2019t actually qualify for the event in 2019, and ultimately, the relatively unknown Italian at the time wasn\u2019t expected to do much at the event. <\/p>\n

He, however, had other ideas and came to the event with a point to prove, having not qualified in the first instance and set about blowing away the field. <\/p>\n

He was handed a group with Mikael Ymer from Sweden, Frenchman Ugo Humbert and American star Frances Tiafoe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Sinner thrashed Ymer in straight sets before claiming a four-set win over Tiafoe and losing a four-set match against Humbert. <\/p>\n

Serbian player Miomir Kecmanovic was brushed aside in four sets in the semi-final, with Alex de Minaur<\/a> simply obliterated in the final of the event, which took place in Milan. <\/p>\n

Who will take part in the 2025 Next Gen Finals<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s event promises to be as exciting as ever, with a number of future talents once again bidding to win the title, just as Sinner did in 2019. <\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t been completely confirmed who will take part in the event just yet but the landscape is becoming clearer ahead of the tournament. <\/p>\n

Jakub Mensik<\/a> will be the top seed, with Learner Tien<\/a> and Joao Fonseca<\/a> right behind him in the running for a place. <\/p>\n

Dino Prizmic, Nicolai Budkov Kjaer, Martin Landaluce, Alexander Blockx and Nishesh Basavareddy are the other occupying qualification places. <\/p>\n

The current alternates as things stand will be Mexican unknown Rodrigo Pachecho Mendez and Justin Engel from Germany. <\/p>\n

The event takes place later this year in Saudi Arabia and will once again be eagerly anticipated as fans look to get a glimpse of the game\u2019s next top talents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Jannik Sinner is one of the world\u2019s very best tennis players, but where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[432,99,428],"class_list":["post-233325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}