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IF : DAY 7 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, October 23, 2016

Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden | October 17-23, 2016 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: €566,525 | Surface: Indoor Hard

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DEL POTRO FACES SOCK, WILD CARD YMER BROTHERS TAKE ON PAVIC/VENUS

DAY 6 PREVIEW: Wild cards are in contention for both the singles and doubles titles at the IF Stockholm Open, where Juan Martin del Potro will look to end his 33-month title drought when he takes on No. 6 seed and 2015 Stockholm finalist .

First up on Centre Court at the Kungliga Tennishallen, Swedish brothers Elias and face No. 4 seeds Mate Pavic and for the doubles title. It has been an impressive team debut for Elias, aged 20, and 18-year-old Mikael, playing his first ATP tour-level doubles event the same week he registered his first tour-level singles win over in the first round. The duo saved three match points to beat No. 3 seeds Marcin Matkowski and Jean-Julien Rojer in the first round and ousted No. 2 seeds and Treat Huey in the semi-finals to become the third brothers to reach a doubles final in 2016 (also Alexander/Mischa Zverev and Bob/). Pavic and Venus denied the Zverev brothers victory in the Montpellier final and are chasing their fifth title of 2016 (also Auckland, Marseille and s-Hertogenbosch).

Wild card del Potro has reached his second final of 2016 (also Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, l. to Murray) without dropping a set. The Argentine is bidding to win the 19th title of his career, and first since Sydney 2014 (d. Tomic) against Jack Sock, who won their only previous encounter at the ATP Masters 1000 Madrid in May. While del Potro’s route to the final has featured just two breaks of serve, both against Dimitrov in the semi- finals, newly-installed U.S. No. 1 Sock has battled his way to the final, spending a cumulative 8 hours, 35 minutes on court – almost 3 hours longer than del Potro – including the longest match of the tournament against in the semi-finals. Sock, back in the final for a second straight year (2015 l. to Berdych) is bidding to become the first American to win the Stockholm title since in 2006 (d. Srichaphan), while del Potro is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Argentine 2008 champion (d. Soderling).

EMIRATES ATP RACE TO LONDON Position Player Points Barclays ATP World Tour Finals 1 * 10,600 27-10: 5 titles in 9 appearances (2008, 2012-15) 2 * 9,685 11-11: 3 SFs in 7 appearances (2008, 2010, 2012) 3 * 5,060 6-6: 2013-15 Semi-finalist 4 * 4,690 0-2: 2014 Round Robin 5 * 4,360 3-4: 2014 Semi-finalist, 2015 Round Robin 6 Gael Monfils 3,625 Never Qualified 7 3,300 16-12: 2 finals in 7 appearances (2010, 2013) 8 3,205 Never Qualified _ 9 Tomas Berdych 2,880 6-13: 2011 Semi-finalist; 2010, 2012-15 Round Robin 10 2,660 Never Qualified 11 Marin Cilic 2,590 0-3: 2014 Round Robin 12 2,460 Never Qualified 13 2,340 Never Qualified 14 2,130 52-12: 6 titles in 14 apps. (2003-04, 2006-07, 2010-11) 15 2,106 Never Qualified 16 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2,070 4-7: 2011 Runner-up; 2008, 2012 Round Robin Key: Bold: Player competing at If Stockholm Open *Qualified for Barclays ATP World Tour Finals If Stockholm Open Day 7 – Sunday, October 23, 2016 Page 2 of 4 www.ATPWorldTour.com

EMIRATES ATP DOUBLES RACE TO LONDON Position Team Points Barclays ATP World Tour Finals 1 Pierre-Hugues Herbert/* 7,165 1-2: 2015 Round Robin 2 Jamie Murray/* 7,070 Never Qualified as a Team 3 /Mike Bryan* 6,070 35-20: 4 titles in 13 apps. (2003-04, 2009, 2014) 4 Feliciano Lopez/Marc Lopez* 4,170 Never Qualified as a Team 5 /* 4,130 8-5: 2014 Finalists; 2013, 2015 Semi-finalists 6 / 3,600 Never Qualified as a Team 7 /John Peers 3,310 Never Qualified as a Team 8 Treat Huey/ 3,065 Never Qualified as a Team _ 9 Jean-Julien Rojer/Horia Tecau 2,680 5-3: 2015 Champions, 2014 Round Robin 10 Juan Sebastian Cabal/ 2,470 Never Qualified as a Team 11 / 2,195 Never Qualified as a Team 12 / 2,190 Never Qualified as a Team 13 Julien Benneteau/Edouard Roger-Vasselin 2,190 2-2: 2014 Semi-finalists 14 Rohan Bopanna/Florin Mergea 2,100 3-2: 2015 Finalists 15 Mate Pavic/Michael Venus 2,140 Never Qualified as a Team 16 /Jack Sock 2,010 Never Qualified as a Team

Key Bold: Team competing at If Stockholm Open * Qualified for Barclays ATP World Tour Finals (3 spots remain)

• INFOSYS ATP SCORES & STATS: Tournament statistics entering Sunday’s championship match

Statistic Jack Sock Juan Martin del Potro Aces 16 22

1st-Serve Percentage 62% (236 of 379) 65% (154 of 238)

1st-Serve Points Won 72% (169 of 236) 78% (120 of 154) 2nd-Serve Points Won 57% (81 of 143) 62% (52 of 84) Service Games Won 83% (48 of 58) 95% (39 of 41) Break Points Saved 71% (24 of 34) 75% (6 of 8) 1st-Serve Return Points Won 32% (77 of 243) 30% (53 of 174)

2nd-Serve Return Points Won 47% (80 of 170) 53% (39 of 74)

Return Games Won 22% (13 of 58) 24% (10 of 41) Break Points Converted 31% (13 of 42) 43% (10 of 23)

• EMIRATES ATP RANKING POINTS AND PRIZE MONEY

IF Stockholm Open Champion Finalist Singles Ranking Points 250 150 Singles Prize Money €100,800 €53,085 Doubles Ranking Points 250 150 Doubles Prize Money €30,620 €16,100

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FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS: DAY 7 SINGLES AND DOUBLES FINALS

CENTRE COURT

[4] Mate Pavic (CRO) / Michael Venus (NZL) vs First Meeting [WC] (SWE) / Mikael Ymer (SWE)

• Pavic/Venus defeated Skupski/Skupski 76(5) 64 in 1R, wild cards Arvidsson/Simonsson 64 36 10-8 in QF and No. 1 seeds Melo/Soares 62 64 in SF • Croatian/Kiwi duo have a 36-15 ATP World Tour record together in 2016 and 51-26 since their tour-level debut at Bucharest 2015; this is their 32nd ATP tournament together. • Playing 10th final together (5-5 record) and 8th of 2016 (4-3 record); title wins at Auckland (d. Butorac/Lipsky), Montpellier (d. Zverev/Zverev), Marseille (d. Erlich/Fleming) and s-Hertogenbosch (d. Inglot/Klaasen) • Have lost last two finals: runners-up at Nice (l. to Cabal/Farah), Gstaad and Metz (l. both to Peralta/Zeballos) • Fell in 1R at Brisbane, , Acapulco, Roland Garros, Nottingham, Hamburg and Beijing • Pavic is at a career-high No. 29 in the ATP doubles rankings this week. The 23-year-old is 5-9 in doubles finals and 3-6 in hard court finals • Venus, the world No. 38, is 5-5 in ATP doubles finals, all with Pavic; the 29-year-old has a 3-3 record in hard court finals

• Wild cards Ymer/Ymer beat No. 3 seeds Matkowski/Rojer 76(2) 16 11-9 in 1R, Fleming/Lipsky 63 46 11-9 in QF and No. 2 seeds Bopanna/Huey 63 64 in SF • The Swedish brothers are playing their 1st ATP Tournament together. This is Elias Ymer’s 2nd tour-level doubles tournament (also Bastad 2014 w/ Windahl, l. 1R to Kretschmer/Satschko) and Mikael Ymer’s 1st ATP doubles tournament • Elias Ymer, aged 20, is ranked No. 161 in singles and No. 954 in doubles. As a wild card he lost his singles 1R match to qualifier Kamke 64 60 • Mikael Ymer, aged 18, is ranked No. 549 in singles and currently unranked in doubles. As a wild card he claimed his first tour-level singles match win over Verdasco 62 61 in 1R before losing 46 64 64 to No. 3 seed Karlovic in 2R. He made his tour-level debut at Stockholm in 2015, also as a wild card (l. 1R to Alexander Zverev)

[6] Jack Sock (USA) vs [WC] Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) Sock Leads 1-0 16 ATP Masters 1000 Madrid (Spain) Clay R32 Jack Sock 6-4 7-6(2)

Sock 2016 Summary F(2): Auckland (l. to Bautista Agut); Houston (l. to ); QF(2): Washington (l. to Karlovic); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Shanghai (l. to Simon) YTD W-L: 33-18 (23-11 on hard) YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 1 Date of Birth: September 24, 1992 Emirates 2016 ATP Ranking: 23 Stockholm W-L (Best Result): 11-3 (2015, 2016 Finalist)

• Tournament Note: Path to F includes wins over , Dustin Brown, Gastao Elias and No. 4 seed Alexander Zverev. Finished as last year’s beaten finalist (l. to No. 5 Berdych) • Has spent 8hs 35mins on court to reach final, including 2hrs 48mins against Zverev in SF – longest match of the tournament • Playing in 5th career ATP World Tour final (1-3 record) and 3rd in 2016 (0-2 record – Auckland, l. to Bautista Agut; Houston (l. to Monaco) • Comes in as No. 1 American for first time at No. 23 after reaching first ATP Masters 1000 QF in Shanghai (d. Raonic, l. to Simon). Won doubles title (w/Isner) • Only men’s or women’s player to earn multiple medals at Rio Olympics, winning gold in mixed doubles w/Mattek-Sands (d. Ram/V. Williams) and bronze in men’s doubles w/Johnson (d. Nestor/Pospisil) • Singles runner-up at Auckland (d. No. 8 Ferrer, ret vs Bautista Agut) and Houston (d. Isner, l. to Monaco) • Advanced to 4R for 2nd time at US Open (d. No. 9 Cilic 64 63 63, l. to Tsonga) • Reached 3R at Roland Garros (l. to Ramos-Viñolas) and Wimbledon (l. to No. 7 Raonic), and ATP Masters 1000s in Indian Wells (l. to Thiem), Miami (l. to Raonic), Madrid (d. del Potro, l. to Sousa) and Toronto (l. to No. 5 Wawrinka) • ATP Masters 1000 doubles finalist w/Pospisil at Indian Wells (l. to Herbert/Mahut) and Rome (l. to Bryan/Bryan) If Stockholm Open Day 7 – Sunday, October 23, 2016 Page 4 of 4 www.ATPWorldTour.com

• Also advanced to Beijing doubles final in team debut w/Tomic (l. to Carreño Busta/Nadal 10-8 in Match TB) • Rallied from 2 sets down to beat Cilic in QF, but lost deciding rubber to Coric (CRO d. USA 3-2) • Retired in Auckland final and withdrew from Buenos Aires due to illness del Potro 2016 Summary F: Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (l. to Murray); SF(2): Delray Beach (l. to Querrey); Stuttgart (l. to Kohlschreiber); QF(2): Munich (l. to Kohlschreiber); US Open (l. to Wawrinka) YTD W-L: 27-11 (19-6 on hard) YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 18 Date of Birth: September 23, 1988 Emirates ATP Ranking: 63 Stockholm W-L (Best Result): 4-2 (2016 Finalist)

• Tournament Note: Has defeated three seeds en route to F, including No. 7 seed in 1R, No. 3 seed Ivo Karlovic in QF and No. 2 seed Dimitrov in SF. Has dropped serve just twice in the tournament, both against Dimitrov, and has not lost a set en route to final • Has spent 5hrs 42mins on court to reach final. Longest match: 1hr 42min vs Dimitrov in SF • Playing in 27th career ATP World Tour final (18-8 record) and 2nd in 2016 (0-1 record – Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, l. to Murray). Bidding to win 1st title since Sydney 2014 (d. Tomic), 2 years 9 months ago • Bidding to be 4th Argentine ATP title winner in 2016 (joining Delbonis, Monaco and Schwartzmann) and 2nd wild card champion of the year (also Nicolas Mahut, ‘s-Hertogenbosch d. Muller) • As World No. 141, upset No. 1 Djokovic and No. 5 Nadal en route to Rio Olympics final (l. to No. 2 Murray in 4h2m) • Became lowest-ranked player to defeat Djokovic since No. 319 Krajinovic in 2010 Belgrade QF • Also lowest-ranked player to beat a World No. 1 since No. 144 Kyrgios upset No. 1 Nadal in 2014 Wimbledon 4R • Rose from No. 142 to No. 64 following US Open QF run (d. No. 10 Thiem, l. to eventual champ Wawrinka in 4 sets) • Lowest-ranked player to reach US Open QF since No. 174 Connors advanced to SF in 1991 • Advanced to Wimbledon 3R (d. Robert and No. 5 Wawrinka, l. to Pouille in 4 sets) • Avenged Olympic loss by beating No. 2 Murray in 5 sets after 5h7m during Davis Cup SF tie (ARG d. GBR 3-2) • Also helped Argentina win QF tie by teaming w/Pella to defeat Fognini/Lorenzi in 5 sets (ARG d. ITA 3-1) • Withdrew from Rome & Roland Garros due to left wrist injury, which also sidelined him from Mar. 2015 to Feb. 2016