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INTRUM OPEN STORYLINES

Kungliga Tennishallen | Stockholm, | 15-21 October 2018 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: €612,755 | Surface: Indoor Hard

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10 THINGS TO WATCH IN STOCKHOLM

1) Ending Indoors: Only indoor remains on the calendar, beginning with ATP World Tour 250 events this week in Stockholm, Antwerp and Moscow. A new champion will be crowned at the 50th edition of the Intrum . Top 2 seeds and are joined by #NextGenATP stars , , and .

2) Papa Isner: Isner is playing his first ATP event as a father following the birth of his daughter Hunter on 15 September. It’s been a banner year for Isner, who won his first ATP Masters 1000 title at , reached his first semi-final at Wimbledon and achieved a career-high No. 8 on 16 July. Isner trails by 605 points on the cut-off for Nitto ATP Finals qualification.

3) Fabio on Fire: Up to 1,750 points are at stake over the final three weeks of the regular season, giving both Isner and Fognini an outside shot in the ATP Race to . After becoming the first Italian in 41 years to win three titles in a single season, Fognini hopes to become the first Italian on record to win four titles in a year. He was within a point of doing so at Chengdu on 30 September.

4) Different Socks: was 24th in the 2017 ATP Race to London with one week remaining, yet he qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals by winning the ATP Masters 1000 title. Though he is 6-18 in singles this season, Sock appears destined to return to London in doubles. Sock is 32-12 in doubles with five titles, including Delray Beach with his Stockholm partner .

5) Mill-mania: scored the biggest win of his career over then-No. 2 at the US Open. But a muscle tear sidelined him for the next four weeks. Stockholm will be the site of Millman’s first tour-level match since his loss to in the US Open quarter-finals.

6) Lightning: Tsitsipas broke into the Top 15 in August following a fourth-round run at Wimbledon and four Top 10 wins en route to the final. He is the first Greek to be ranked that high, reach the Round of 16 at a Grand Slam and play for an ATP Masters 1000 championship.

7) Winning Feeling: Like Tsitsipas, the seventh-seeded Shapovalov has earned 30 wins in a season for the first time. Though the 19-year-old is still seeking his first final on tour, in May he became both the youngest quarter-finalist and semi-finalist in ATP Masters 1000 Madrid tournament history.

8) Youth is Served: Fellow 19-year-old de Minaur has reached two finals this season, including in Washington, where there were four semi-finalists under the age of 22 for the first time on tour since 1995 Buenos Aires. On Monday, de Minaur will set a career-high ranking for the 18th time this year.

9) Phenomenal Fritz: Before the breakthroughs of de Minaur and Shapovalov, an 18-year-old Fritz advanced to the 2016 Memphis final in the third tour-level event of his career. Nearly three years later, Fritz remains the youngest finalist on tour since , 18, at 2008 Delray Beach.

10) Chasing Chung: Fritz, de Minaur, Shapovalov and Tsitsipas all have a chance to follow in the footsteps of Stockholm wild card Hyeon Chung, who won the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals title. Information accurate as of Friday, 12 October at 12 pm ET. For the latest stats, facts and figures about the ATP World Tour, follow @ATPMediaInfo on Twitter.