AIRCEL CHENNAI OPEN: DAY 7 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, January 8, 2017 SDAT Tennis Stadium, Chennai, India | January 2-8, 2017 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: $447,480 | Surface: Outdoor Hard ATP Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com AircelChennaiOpen.org Edward La Cava: [email protected] Twitter: @ATPWorldTour Twitter: @ChennaiOpen Press Room: +91 44 32534205 Facebook: @ATPWorldTour Facebook: @ChennaiOpen #NEXTGEN’s MEDVEDEV BATTLES BAUTISTA AGUT IN 1ST FINAL Daniil Medvedev hopes to become the third #NextGen player to win an ATP World Tour title when he meets No. 2 seed Roberto Bautista Agut in Sunday’s Chennai final. Alexander Zverev (St. Petersburg) and Karen Khachanov (Chengdu) of #NextGen each won a title last fall. Medvedev is playing in his first ATP final after saving a match point against Dudi Sela to win his first semi-final. o #NextGen: Top 200 players born in 1996 or later En route to the final, Medvedev did not face a player in the Top 60 of the Emirates ATP Rankings. That changes Sunday when he meets the highest-ranked opponent of his young career. Bautista Agut, the World No. 14, is appearing in his fifth final of the last 52 weeks and seventh since October 2015. He fell in the 2013 Chennai final to Janko Tipsarevic, who was ranked ninth at the time. The doubles final features four Indians for the first time in the tournament’s 22-year history. Los Cabos champions Purav Raja and Divij Sharan face countrymen Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan. The winners will follow in the footsteps of fellow Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes, who teamed for five Chennai titles. Paes added a sixth in 2012 with Tipsarevic. NFOSYS ATP SCORES & STATS Aircel Chennai Open [2] Roberto Bautista Agut Daniil Medvedev Aces 7 26 1st-Serve Percentage 65% (121 of 186) 61% (178 of 292) 1st-Serve Points Won 71.1% (86 of 121) 71.3% (127 of 178) 2nd-Serve Points Won 57% (37 of 65) 51% (58 of 114) Service Games Won 84% (27 of 32) 83% (34 of 41) Break Points Saved 62% (8 of 13) 68% (15 of 22) 1st-Serve Return Points Won 33% (39 of 117) 42% (76 of 181) 2nd-Serve Return Points Won 58% (42 of 72) 50% (52 of 104) Return Games Won 35% (11 of 31) 42% (18 of 43) Break Points Converted 46% (11 of 24) 49% (18 of 37) NOTE: Medvedev leads Bautista Agut in 6 of 10 categories. EMIRATES ATP RANKING POINTS AND PRIZE MONEY Aircel Chennai Open Champion Finalist Ranking Points 250 150 Singles Prize Money $79,780 $42,020 Doubles Prize Money $24,240 $12,740 Aircel Chennai Open Day 7 – Sunday, January 8, 2017 Page 2 of 2 www.ATPWorldTour.com SUNDAY FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS - SINGLES & DOUBLES FINALS [2] Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) vs Daniil Medvedev (RUS) First Meeting Bautista Agut 2016 Summary W (2): Auckland (d. Sock); Sofia (d. Troicki); F (2): Winston-Salem (l. Carreño Busta); ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai (l. Murray); SF: St. Petersburg (l. Wawrinka); QF (5): Chennai (l. Coric); Rotterdam (l. Klizan); Dubai (l. Baghdatis); London/Queen's Club (l. Raonic); Rio Olympics (l. del Potro) 2016 W-L: 48-23 (37-16 on hard) 2016 Titles: 2 / Career Titles: 4 Date of Birth: April 14, 1988 (28) Emirates ATP Ranking: 14 Chennai W-L (Best Result): 10-4 (2013, 2017 Finalist) • Tournament Note: Trailed 62 41 to Youzhny in QF before rallying for 3-set win and beating [5] Paire 63 63 in SF • Upset World No. 1 Djokovic 64 64 to reach 1st ATP Masters 1000 final at Shanghai (l. to No. 2 Murray) • Captured titles at Auckland (d. Sock) and Sofia (d. Troicki); fell in Winston-Salem final (l. to Carreño Busta in 3 sets) • Set career-highs last season in wins (48) and ranking (No. 13 on October 17) • Saved 1 MP to beat No. 10 Tsonga in Auckland SF, snapping 17-match losing streak to Top 10 opponents • Reached 4R at Aus. Open (d. Cilic, l. to No. 6 Berdych in 5 sets) and Roland Garros (d. Coric, l. to No. 1 Djokovic) • Following Shanghai run, lost opening matches to No. 266 Bublik at Moscow, No. 417 J. Melzer at Vienna and Simon at ATP Masters 1000 Paris after holding 3 MPs • Quarter-finalist at Rio Olympics in singles (l. to del Potro) and doubles w/Ferrer (l. to Johnson/Sock) • Also advanced to SF at St. Petersburg (l. to No. 3 Wawrinka) and QFs at Chennai (l. to Coric 76 in 3rd), Rotterdam (l. to Klizan after 5 MPs), Dubai (l. to Baghdatis) and London/Queen’s Club (l. to No. 9 Raonic) • Withdrew from Munich due to meniscus injury Medvedev 2016 Summary QF: Moscow (l. Robert) 2016 W-L: 5-5 (3-2 on hard) 2016 Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: February 11, 1996 (20) Emirates ATP Ranking: 99 Chennai W-L (Best Result): 4-0 (2017 Finalist) • Tournament Note: Projected to rise to around No. 54 in Emirates ATP Rankings with win in final and No. 65 with loss • Improved Emirates ATP Ranking from No. 331 at end of 2015 to career-high No. 98 on November 14 • Reached 1st ATP World Tour QF at Moscow as Q (d. Kukushkin and Troicki, l. to Robert) • Also qualified at Nice (l. to Pella in ATP debut), ’s-Hertogenbosch (d. Zeballos for 1st ATP win, l. to Mannarino in 2R), Hamburg (d. Struff, l. to Gimeno-Traver in 2R) and St. Petersburg (d. Bublik, l. to A. Zverev in 2R) • Made Grand Slam qualifying debut at Wimbledon, beating Kozlov and Millot before falling to Willis in final round • Advanced to QF-or-better at final 8 Challenger events of season, highlighted by 1st final at Portoroz, SLO (l. to F. Mayer) and 1st title at St. Remy, FRA (d. De Loore) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs First Meeting Purav Raja (IND)/Divij Sharan (IND) • Bopanna/Nedunchezhiyan saved 3 MPs in Match TB to defeat Cerretani/Oswald 62 36 12-10 in QF • Indians’ only other event as a team was 2016 Chengdu (d. F. Lopez/Monaco, l. to Shamasdin/Siljestrom in QF) • Bopanna has won 14 doubles titles, including ATP Masters 1000 titles at Paris in 2011-12 and Madrid in 2015 • Nedunchezhiyan’s previous-best ATP doubles result was 2016 Chennai SF w/Devvarman (l. to Krajicek/Paire) • Doubles Rankings: Bopanna 28 (Career-High 3 in 2013), Nedunchezhiyan 100 (Career-High 100) • Raja/Sharan did not drop a set en route to final, including wins over [3] Paes/Sa in 1R and [2] Duran/Molteni in SF • Indians are 18-12 as a team on ATP World Tour, highlighted by titles at 2013 Bogotá and 2016 Los Cabos • Won 4 Challenger titles in 2016 (6 overall): Manchester, GBR; Surbiton, GBR; Segovia, ESP and Pune, IND • Raja lost in 2008 Tashkent, UZB Challenger QF and 2013 Düsseldorf 1R w/Bopanna before winning 2013 Bhopal, IND Futures title w/Nedunchezhiyan. Sharan lost in 2016 Winnetka, USA Challenger QF w/Nedunchezhiyan • Doubles Rankings: Raja 65 (Career-High 65), Sharan 63 (Career-High 61 in 2016) AIRCEL CHENNAI OPEN: DAY 6 MEDIA NOTES Saturday, January 7, 2017 SDAT Tennis Stadium, Chennai, India | January 2-8, 2017 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: $447,480 | Surface: Outdoor Hard ATP Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com AircelChennaiOpen.org Edward La Cava: [email protected] Twitter: @ATPWorldTour Twitter: @ChennaiOpen Mark Epps: [email protected] Facebook: @ATPWorldTour Facebook: @ChennaiOpen Press Room: +91 44 32534205 CHANCE FOR MEDVEDEV, SELA, PAIRE TO REACH RARE FINAL Advancing to an ATP World Tour singles final doesn’t happen every day. Just ask Aircel Chennai Open semi-finalists Daniil Medvedev, Dudi Sela and Benoit Paire, none of whom played a tour- level championship match in 2016. They are all one win from doing so this week. In his first ATP semi, the 20-year-old Medvedev meets Sela, who is bidding for his first final since 2014 Atlanta. The fifth-seeded Paire challenges No. 2 seed Roberto Bautista Agut in a rematch of the 2013 Aircel Chennai Open semi-finals. Bautista Agut defeated Paire in three sets four years ago and has never lost to the Frenchman in seven career meetings. The Spaniard reached a career-high four finals in 2016, winning titles at Auckland and Sofia during the first five weeks of the season. Also on Stadium Court, No. 4 seeds Nicholas Monroe and Artem Sitak meet Indians Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in a doubles semi-final. Los Cabos champions Purav Raja and Divij Sharan, another All-Indian team, await in the final. If Bopanna and Nedunchezhiyan win on Saturday, they will ensure the first Chennai doubles final to feature four players from India. SATURDAY FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS - SINGLES SEMI-FINALS Daniil Medvedev (RUS) vs Dudi Sela (ISR) First Meeting Medvedev 2016 Summary QF: Moscow (l. Robert) 2016 W-L: 5-5 (3-2 on hard) 2016 Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: February 11, 1996 (20) Emirates ATP Ranking: 99 Chennai W-L (Best Result): 3-0 (2017 Semi-finalist) • Tournament Note: Did not drop a set against Monteiro, [8] Lu and [Q] Kovalik en route to 1st ATP World Tour SF • Reached 1st ATP World Tour QF at Moscow as Q (d. Kukushkin and Troicki, l. to Robert) • Also qualified at Nice (l. to Pella in ATP debut), ’s-Hertogenbosch (d. Zeballos for 1st ATP win, l. to Mannarino in 2R), Hamburg (d.