NEXT GEN ATP FINALS: SATURDAY, 9 NOVEMBER MEDIA NOTES Allianz Cloud | Milan, Italy | 5-9 November 2019 | First Held: 2017 Draw: S-8 | Prize Money: $1,400,000 | Surface: Indoor Hard ATP Tour Tournament Media ATPTour.com NextGenATPFinals.com Edward La Cava:
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[email protected] (Media Desk) Facebook: @ATPTour @NextGenFinals TV & Radio: TennisTV.com CHAMPIONSHIP FAST FACTS The Next Gen ATP Finals championship on Saturday features two of the rising stars on the ATP Tour with top seed Alex de Minaur and No. 8 Jannik Sinner. This will be a first-time meeting. Both players won their individual groups with de Minaur going 3-0 and Sinner 2-1. The 20-year-old Aussie is the first player to reach back-to-back finals in Milan. Last year he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas. Sinner leads the tournament in service games won (40 of 44, 91%) while de Minaur leads in return games won (19 of 41, 46%). What’s at Stake: de Minaur has earned $295,000 thus far and if he wins the title, he will finish with the biggest payday of his career ($429,000). Sinner has earned $262,000 this week and with $110,000 he will surpass his career earnings of $274,470 entering Milan. Milan to Melbourne Success: The past two Next Gen ATP Finals champions have gone on to reach their first Grand Slam semi-final at the Australian Open less than three months later. Hyeon Chung won the inaugural Milan tourney in 2017 and reached the Australian Open SFs in 2018 (d.