Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: April 26, 2023, 14:54 IST
Tennis star Daniil Medvedev (AP)
Daniil Medvedev will play on the ATP Tour’s Zhuhai Championships from September 20 to 26
Former world primary Daniil Medvedev will headline the return of elite males’s tennis to China after a Covid-enforced break of 4 years, organisers mentioned on Wednesday.
The Russian, winner of the US Open in 2021 and a two-time Australian Open runner-up, will play on the ATP Tour’s Zhuhai Championships on September 20-26.
Zhuhai Championships officers have additionally been in “fruitful” talks with other grand-slam champions and top-ranked players, the ATP said. More star names will be announced “imminently”.
Another ATP occasion will happen in Chengdu, within the southwest of China, concurrently the Zhuhai event.
Those are adopted by the China Open in Beijing beginning in late September, earlier than the celebrated Shanghai Masters in October.
“I’m actually wanting ahead to coming again to China and enjoying on the Hengqin International Tennis Center,” the 27-year-old Medvedev, now third on the planet, mentioned of his Zhuhai debut.
“I can’t wait to see the city and the stadium, both of which I have heard a lot of good things about.”
Australia’s Alex de Minaur gained the primary version of the competitors in Zhuhai, close to Hong Kong, in 2019.
The ladies’s WTA Tour mentioned earlier this month that it too will return to China this yr.
International sport is making a return to the nation after authorities dropped strict journey restrictions imposed as a result of of the pandemic.
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