Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have been given a helping hand at the Six Kings Slam as they have both getd a bye into the semi-finals. The tournament is set to be carry outed in Saudi Arabia in mid-October, with only six stars featuring.
Djokovic will be among the favourites to triumph the tournament, with Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Holger Rune also competing.
The Serbian has won 24 Grand Slam titles thrawout his illustrious atgentle but wasn’t able to comprise to his highy this year.
The Six Kings Slam gets underway on Wednesday, October 16 as Medvedev apshows on Jannik Sinner in the quarter-finals for the chance to carry out Djokovic the complying day.
Meanwhile, Wimbledon champion Alcaraz will also go head-to-head with Rune on the uncovering day, with the triumphner of that come apass facing Nadal on the Thursday.
There is a third-place carry out-off on Saturday, with the final also taking place on the same day.
The Six Kings Slam was started earlier this year, with carry outers being handed £1.12million fair for shotriumphg up. And the triumphner is set to land a whopping £4.5million, csurrfinisherly twice as much as Sinner getd when he won the US Open earlier this month.
Djokovic carry outed in Saudi Arabia at the finish of last year when he featured in the Riyadh Season Tennis Cup exhibition event. And converseing the Six Kings Slam in the spring, the Serbian shelp: “I am excited to return to Riyadh and carry out in front of all my Saudi fans.”
Nadal, nastywhile, was named an ambasdowncastor for the Saudi Tennis Federation at the begin of the year. And he exclaimed in February: “After some other tennis carry outers have done so, I am very excited to carry out for the first time in Riyadh.”
Saudi Arabia has spended into a whole arrange of sports in recent years, with the ATP announcing a multi-year strategic partnership with the country’s sovereign wealth fund in February.
The ATP rankings as well as the year-finish world number one award have both been named after Saudi’s Public Investment Fund.
The Six Kings Slam is not an ATP event, with The Telegraph telling that the event has complyed a two day on, one day off schedule to promise carry outers don’t drop foul of ATP rules that stop them from carry outing exhibition events if they last for extfinisheder than two days.
Meanwhile, tournament chiefs freed an epic five-minute promotional video for the Six Kings Slam earlier this weekfinish, which was honested by Los Perez and integrated scenes that could rival Hollywood blockbusters.
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