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BECKER: “Thanks to tennis legends, Kyrgios can stop playing and earn money”

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BECKER: “Thanks to tennis legends, Kyrgios can stop playing and earn money”

Six-time Grand Slam champion Boris Becker He advised Nick Kyrgios to “respect the past” after the Australian star said today’s stars are far superior to the great sports stars of the past.

“Has Nick been talking a lot about tennis lately? Why is he talking about a sport he openly hates?

Fact check: Nick has never won a major championship as a player or coach… so where does that entitlement come from?

Everyone can think what they want. You have to respect the past and say loudly “thank you” that these former professionals exist, because without them there would be no tennis tour.

Let me start with Australia. Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Ken Roach are the gladiators of the Australian tennis scene. Then I have to mention Patrick Rafter and Lleyton Hewitt. They were all number one, they had won Grand Slam tournaments.

I take the generation thing even further and say: ’70s, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, then Ivan Lendl. They popularized this sport and attracted viewers to television screens. You can see the result today. Never before has there been so much prize money, never before has there been as much publicity as there is today. And all this thanks to legends.

I played a little bit in the 80s, but Stefan Edberg and Mats Wilander were there. In the 90s, there were Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. Thanks to all these players, Nick Kyrgios can’t play tennis at all this year and is still making a living from tennis,” Becker said.

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22-28.12 Schedule and results of matches between Ukrainians and Ukrainians at ITF tournaments

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22-28.12 Schedule and results of matches between Ukrainians and Ukrainians at ITF tournaments

Sport.ua presents the schedule and results of matches of Ukrainian tennis players at the ITF World Tour tournaments from December 15 to 21

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M15 Antalya (Türkiye – location), Antalya Series

Singles, elimination, first round

  • Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Ibrahim Yego (Kenya) – absent
  • Filip Pavic (Kosovo) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – without

Singles, qualifiers, second round

  • Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Stefanos Schinas (Greece, 15) – 23.12, at 10:00 at the latest
  • Alexandru Balan (Canada, 6) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – 23.12, 12:30 at the latest

Singles, first round

  • TVA – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine, 6) –TVA
  • TVA – Ilya Biloborodko (Ukraine) –TVA
  • TVA – Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 2) –TVA

Doubles, first round

  • Dillon Beckles (USA) and Alexander Wagner (Austria) – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine) and Alp Horoz (Türkiye) – TVA
  • William Mirarchi (Italy) and Daniil Stepanov – Mihai Marinescu (Romania) and Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 4) –TVA

M15 Monastir (Tunisia – difficult), FTT by Magic Hotel Tours

Singles, elimination, first round

  • Kazuki Nishiwaki (Japan, 6) – Arseniy Mironov (Ukraine) – 6:0, 6:0

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W15 Antalya (Türkiye – ground), Antalya Series

Singles, elimination, first round

  • Anastasia Necule (Romania) – Yaroslava Sribnaya (Ukraine) –TVA
  • Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) – Naz Kaynak (Türkiye) – TVA
  • Jamie Collinson (Australia) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) –TVA
  • Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Öykü Şahbaz (Ukraine) – none

Singles, qualifiers, second round

  • Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine, 6) – Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) or Alisa Aksiyanova – TVA
  • Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Sabina Shaidullina or Ema Garayda (Czech Republic, 14) – TVA

Doubles, first round

  • Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kazakhstan) and Ingkar Dyusebay (Kazakhstan) – Sara Balan (Romania) and Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine) –TVA
  • Nanari Katsumi (Romania) and Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) and Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) –TVA

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The champion of the 2025 ATP Junior Final Tournament has been announced

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The champion of the 2025 ATP Junior Final Tournament has been announced

20-year-old American tennis player Lerner Tien (ATP 28) Became the winner of the ATP 2025 Junior Final Tournament.

The Americans were defeated in the final of the competition held on indoor courts in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Alexander Blox (Belgium, ATP 116) 1 hour 1 minute.

Next Generation ATP Finals 2025. Final, December 21

Lerner Tien (AMERICA) [1] –Alexander Blox (Belgium) [2] – 4:3 (7:4), 4:2, 4:1

Tien played in the Next Generation finals for the second time. He lost to João Fonseca in the decisive match in 2024.

Lerner suffered one defeat, losing to Rafael Hodar in the first round of the group stage in Jeddah. He then defeated Blox as well as Martin Landaluse, Nikolay Budkov Kjaer and Nishesh Basavareddy.

Tien becomes the second Youth Finals champion after Brandon Nakashima – Nakashima won the Next Gen award in 2022.

Lerner Thien received $502,250 in prize money for his victory at the Next Gen ATP Finals 2025.

Photo gallery of the award ceremony

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Lerner Thien – Alexander Blocks. New Generation Final. Watch online. LIVE

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The final match will be held on December 21 ATP Youth Final Tournament 2025 In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The Net Gen ATP Finals cup will be played on: Alexander Blocks (Belgium, ATP 116) and Lerner Tien (USA, ATP 28). The starting time of the meeting is 19.00 Kyiv time.

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This will be the first head-to-head meeting between the rivals at Tour level and the third if you take into account the junior competitions (1:1).

The winner of the match will receive the Junior Final award.

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