Tennis
The last pair of the ATP Junior Final Tournament 2025 has been announced
Semi-final matches were held on December 20 ATP Youth Final Tournament 2025.
The New Generation played the decisive match of the ATP Finals Alexander Blocks (ATR 116) and Lerner Tien (ATP28).
Blox defeated Nikolay Budkov Kjær (ATP 136) and Thien fought Nishesh Basavareddy (ATP 167).
Alexander won all four fights in Jeddah. He competed with Justin Engel, Nishesh Basavareddy and Dino Prizmic in the group stage. Blox completed 43 aces throughout the tournament and will be playing in the Next Gen final for the first time.
For Thien, this is his second youth final; He lost in the cup match to João Fonseca in 2024. Previously, only Alex de Minaur had played in the New Generation final twice.
Blox and Tien crossed paths twice. In 2023, Alexander beat Lerner in the Australian Open junior final and lost to him in the 1/8 junior final of Roland Garros.
The final of the junior final tournament will take place on December 21 at 19:00 Kyiv time.
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Source: Sport UA
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