ATP 500 Beijing Open and APT 250 Astana Open Tournaments

BEIJING  OPEN

ROUND 2

Top Half of the Draw

1    Carlos Alcaraz              vs         Lotenzo Musett

7     Casper Ruud                vs        Tomas Pablo Etscheverry

4     Holger Rune                 vs       Grigor Dimitrov

6     Jannik Sinner               vs        Yoshihito Nishioka

Bottom Half of the D raw

8     Alexander Zverev         vs        Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

Nicolas Jardy                       vs       Matteo Arnaldi

5    Andrey Rublev               vs       Ugo Humbert 

2    Danill Medvedev           vs       Ales de Minaur 

ASTANA OPEN

ROUBS 2

Top Half of the Draw

1   Tallon Griekspoor            vs       Sho Shimabukuro

5   Sebastian Korda               vs       Nuno Borges

4    Jiri Helecka                     vs       Egor Gerasimov

Hamed Medjedovic              vs       Alexander Chevchenko

Bottom Half of the Draw

Marcos Giron                        vs        Dominic Thiem

3    Alexander Bublik           vs          Sebastian Ofner

6    Adrian Mannarino           vs         Alibek Kachmazov

2    Sebasztian Baez              vs          Jurij Rodionov

Unlike the normal tournaments these two tournaments Round 1 matches start tomorrow and the final will be played on Tuesday next week - with the APT 1000  Shangai Masters Round 1 matches starting on Thursday next week.    

The Beijing tournament have the toughest fields I have ever seen in an APT 500 tournament.    Even the qualifiers may be in the Top 32 ranked players in the World  The only top ten players not seeded are Djokovic  and  Fritz.    Not surprising - all these players are in a desperate hunt to reach the ATP Championship to be held in mid-November.

This tournament is followed by another ATP 1000 Masters tournament in Shanghai starting next week.   The same players together with Djokovic and Taylor will be in that meatgrinder as well.    I will be surprised if  Djokovic does not play in Shanghai,     It could represent a huge dent in his ranking points - he already lost 250 points in not playing in Astana or in Beijing and his absence in Beijing in Shangai would mean losing in total a potential 2 000 ranking points lead if Alcaraz won in both Beijing and Shanghai.

Atana having  been a ATP 500 series in 2022 with the Chinese component not being played has been reduced to an ATP 250 tournament this year.     Apparently the points lost has been reduced to 250 points and in some cases where people earned 250 or less points eliminated from the ranking system.   If he Astana tiurnament in 2024 is still an ATP 250 tournament next year and players d not play in the 250 format they will mlose the 250 points they benefited from in the past.              .      

At this s tage the qualification matches are on the go in Astana with only one of the four matches being completed - once the three matches have been completed and the full match features have been factired in the Round 1 matches would start later today.

The four qualifiers in the case of the Beijing turnament are Arnaldi,Wolf, Harris and Hanfmann.   Once that has been factired in I will finalize the above match schedule.   The official Round 1 schedule will start tomorrow at 04:00 (SA Time).     

BEIJING  OPEN

QUARTERFINALS

Top Half of the Draw

1    Carlos Alcaraz               vs      7   Casper Ruud

6    Jannik Sinner                  vs     Grigor Dimitrov  

Bottom Half of the D raw

8     Alexander Zverev          vs       Nicolas Jardy

2    Danill Medvedev            vs      Ugo Humbert 

ASTANA OPEN

QUARTERFINAlsS

Top Half of the Draw

1   Tallon Griekspoor             vs     5   Sebastian Korda

4    Jiri Helecka                      vs       Hamad Medjedovic

Bottom Half of the Draw

Sebastian Ofner                      vs       Dominic Thiem

6    Adrian Mannarino            vs       Jurij Rodionov 

BEIJING  OPEN

SEMIFINALS

1    Carlos Alcaraz/              vs         6    Jannik Sinner/  

2    Danill Medvedev            vs        8     Alexander Zverev 

ASTANA OPEN

SEMIFINAlsS

5   Sebastian Korda               vs       Hamad Medjedovic

6    Adrian Mannarino           vs       Sebastian Ofner

BEIJING  OPEN

FINAL

2      Danill Medvedev     vs      6    Jannik Sinner 

ASTANA OPEN

FINAL

5   Sebastian Korda          vs       6    Adrian Mannarino

Trophy winners:-

Astana     -       6 Adrian Mannarino

Beijing     -       Jannik Sinner

Congrats to the 2 winners.  I am delighted to see that Sinner is now the number 4 player in the world,   Great win.      

Sinner seems to have Traz’s number.