{"id":348424,"date":"2025-12-14T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:28:07","slug":"basavareddy-welcomes-cervara-as-players-ready-for-jeddah-start-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348424\/","title":{"rendered":"Basavareddy welcomes Cervara as players ready for Jeddah start | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ATP Tour<br \/>\n    Basavareddy welcomes Cervara to team as players ready for Jeddah start<\/p>\n<p>Californian praises Medvedev&#8217;s former coach, who has joined him for the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF, which starts Wednesday in Jeddah<\/p>\n<p>December 14, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/basavareddy-jeddah-2025-practice.jpg\" alt=\"Nishesh Basavareddy is joined in Jeddah by coach Gilles Cervara.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Nishesh Basavareddy is joined in Jeddah by coach Gilles Cervara.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Three days and counting.<\/p>\n<p>With the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF set to begin Wednesday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, American Nishesh Basavareddy was among the 20-and-under emerging stars who got a taste for conditions at the King Abdullah Sports City Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Newport Beach, California, native is back for the eight-player tournament for the second year, but with coach Gilles Cervara in his box for the first time. The 20-year-old asked the Frenchman, the former longtime coach of Daniil Medvedev, to join his team at the beginning of December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously he had a long and successful partnership with Daniil, who was a good player before they started working together, but they did a lot of great things together,\u201d Basavareddy told ATPTour.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that experience at the highest level could help me where I\u2019m at in my career. It\u2019s not just the tennis; he\u2019s interested in all aspects. He\u2019s diligent and professional in areas such as nutrition and fitness and that will help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/apps?utm_source=atp&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=app_banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/-\/media\/&#10;9333ed00493246e6a2ad692fa18710b7.ashx\" alt=\"The Official App Of Tennis | Download ATP WTA Live App\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Croatian Dino Prizmic, a two-time ATP Challenger Tour title winner this year, practised with Spanish 19-year-old Rafael Jodar, who qualified for Jeddah after winning three Challengers in the final three months of the season. Both players are making their tournament debuts.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s Alexander Blockx, who stands 6\u20194\u201d, hit a series of crushing forehands during his session with Norwegian Nicolai Budkov Kjaer, a four-time Challenger Tour champion this season.<\/p>\n<p>German 18-year-old Justin Engel practised with countryman and former Top 100 player Michael Kohlmann.<\/p>\n<p>The draw and Day 1 schedule will be made later on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>All eight players compete on the three days of group play Wednesday through Friday, with the semi-finals Saturday and the final Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners of the tournament include Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgenatpfinals.com\/en\/players\/singles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">playing field<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Basavareddy welcomes Cervara to team as players ready for Jeddah start Californian praises Medvedev&#8217;s former coach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-348424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348424","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=348424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}