“I take this tournament as training”

The declaration sharp which the tournament organizers would have done very well without. Arthur Son he is one of the eight young people who will take part in the ATP Next Gen Finals and from the recent statements released to the home newspaper the Team he doesn’t seem to be anxiously awaiting his debut against the Brazilian Jao Fonseca. The Frenchman, to be honest, didn’t seem to appreciate the format of the event even last year, when after losing in the final against the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic he had sworn never to return to Jeddah. Instead, here he is again in Arab land but not by his own will: “I came because it is a mandatory ATP event”. Not exactly a hymn to free will.

The winner of the ATP 500 in Tokyo will receive 150,000 dollars for his participation and if he were to win the title undefeated he could receive 526,000 dollars. An economic aspect that doesn’t sugarcoat the pill for the transalpine player who caustically reveals what his attitude will be on the pitch: “I take this tournament as a training week. It’s just another week of preseason. I’m trying a lot of combinations with my racket. I have to see what happens in a match, when I score points. I think I’ll be in good shape for next year.”. In short, the priorities of the class of 2004 are very different.