Game Over in Jeddah: The Next Gen Finals Already Leaves Saudi Arabia

le 07/11/2025 à 17h16

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After only three editions, Saudi Arabia will no longer host the Next Gen Finals. The ATP is already looking for a new destination for 2026, marking the premature end of a partnership that was supposed to last until 2027.

While Saudi Arabia seems to be sweeping up everything in recent years in the world of tennis and imposing a certain hold on the ATP and WTA tours, the Gulf country has just lost one of its anchor points.

According to reports from The National, the Next Gen Finals, held in the city of Jeddah since 2023, will conclude with a final edition on Saudi soil in December (from the 17th to the 21st), before seeking a new host city.

The contract that bound the ATP and the Saudi Tennis Federation, however, was set to run until 2027.

This year, the event will be without its main headline act: Joao Fonseca, the leader of the Next Gen Race and defending champion, has ended his season after the Rolex Paris Masters.

The Next Gen Finals, created in 2017, had seven editions in Milan before moving to Saudi Arabia.

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Let's make that wish for all 2000 plus players hoping for 5 wins each day. Hoping ŵhen we open the results page to see all green, and no red. And especially NO CANCELED matches.

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why did tennis tonic void predictions on the match between Chwalinska and Huergo at the Quito tournament? The match was played to completion and on time. If TT feels the match is one sided, and of course it was, then don't put it up for prediction. This is getting irritating.

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The finals are here, and we scramble for the best finish. I've been chasing "King" all year and I was able to shrink the spread a little. Skelp is also closing the gap.

Seasons best to all the regulars in our league.

Will you all be back in the new year.?

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Steffi Graf completed a Golden Slam (not just a career Grand Slam) when she was 19. She is the only person to accomplish that, winning the four majors plus Olympic gold the same calendar year.

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