Bencic, Fritz, Tiafoe Sign on for MGM Macau Tennis Masters

Olympic gold-medal champion Belinda Bencic is bringing her sport to Macau.

Bencic will combine it up with Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe within the inaugural MGM Macau Tennis Masters, an new exhibition occasion that brings prime worldwide tennis abilities to Asia.

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Supported by the Sports Bureau of Macao SAR Government, IMG and the Macau Tennis Association, the occasion is ready for December 2-Third on the Macao East Asian Games Dome, the biggest indoor sports facility in Macau.

The exhausting courtroom blended occasion will characteristic a complete of 4 ATP and two WTA gamers competing in a best-of-three units format, with a ten-point match tiebreak in lieu of a 3rd set.

Two males’s singles matches and one blended doubles match shall be performed on Saturday, whereas Sunday will showcase one girls’s singles match and two males’s singles matches, adopted by the awards ceremony.

Bencic can have fond recollections of taking part in in Asia, together with her stellar performances in Tokyo two years in the past resulting in her profitable the Olympic singles gold medal and doubles silver medal. The 26-year-old Swiss has been ranked as excessive as quantity 4 on this planet, and has amassed 10 profession titles, with two singles titles picked up from three finals appearances on this yr alone.

Meanwhile, Taylor Fritz has firmly entrenched himself on this planet’s prime 10 since late final yr, and in March, he turned the primary American man to crack the highest 5 since Andy Roddick achieved the feat in 2009. With 5 profession titles beneath his belt, together with his newest being picked up at Delray Beach this yr, the 25-year-old is greatest remembered for his triumph on the Indian Wells Masters in 2022, when he beat Rafa Nadal within the ultimate.

An in depth buddy of Fritz, Frances Tiafoe has progressively constructed up his document on the tour, with the spotlight of his younger profession being a exceptional five-set win over Rafa Nadal on the 2022 US Open in entrance of the most important crowd he had ever been related to. The 25-year-old is at the moment in wealthy type, selecting up two of his three profession titles in 2023, along with his most up-to-date win in Stuttgart making him solely the third African-American in historical past to crack the highest ten.

Together, Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz are the primary American pair within the Top 10 since Mardy Fish and John Isner achieved the feat in May 2012.

The three different gamers taking part within the MGM Macau Tennis Masters shall be revealed in July, when ticket gross sales for the occasion can even be formally launched.

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