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Four automatic qualifying spots in Milan remain up for grabs
The excitement is building in the Emirates ATP Race To Milan as the ATP World Tour’s budding stars make their final efforts in the last week of the Race at the Swiss Indoors Basel and the Erste Banke Open 500 in Vienna, with four qualifying spots remaining.
Basel is the hot spot for those who have not yet qualified for the inaugural Next Gen ATP finals. Five #NextGenATP players looking to add their name to the Milan mix are competing in the event.
The toughest task may go to American Frances Tiafoe, who enters Basel in ninth place in the Race, 110 points behind No. 7 Daniil Medvedev. The Top 7 in the Race qualify, with an eighth spot going to the winner of an Italian 21 and under event. Tiafoe will face top-seeded Roger Federer, who enters his hometown tournament after winning the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Federer beat Tiafoe in five sets at this year's US Open and in straight sets at this year's Miami Open presented by Itau.
A player he can face in the quarter-finals, Denis Shapovalov, is also a contender in the Race. However, the Canadian is much closer to guaranteeing his spot in Milan, sitting next in line to qualify in fourth place with 926 points. If the left-hander beats this year’s Antalya Open champion, Yuichi Sugita, in their opening match, he will qualify.
Jared Donaldson is second in line to qualify, currently in the No. 5 spot with 890 points. The American will face a qualifier in the first round. Just four points behind Donaldson in the Race is No. 6 Borna Coric, who will confront Switzerland’s Henri Laaksonen at the 25 year old’s home event. Both players can qualify for Milan by reaching the quarter-finals.
South Korean Hyeon Chung will look to punch his ticket to the inaugural tournament with a strong result in Basel. After dropping from seventh to eighth in the Race last week, he will attempt to overcome a 12-point deficit behind Medvedev. Chung plays ATP World Tour veteran Paolo Lorenzi in the first round.
Medvedev, who climbed into the final automatic qualifying spot with his quarter-final showing at the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow, is the only player in the Race’s Top 9 not playing a tour-level event this week. Instead, the 21 year old is competing in the Open Brest Arena Credit Agricole, an ATP Challenger Tour event in Brest, France. He plays Italian Matteo Donati in the first round.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, who rose to No. 10 in the Race by virtue of his semi-final run in Antwerp, is also playing in Brest. He has been eliminated from the Race, as even by winning the tournament he would remain in 10th.
The only other player still alive in the Race is Sebastian Ofner, who is in 17th. He plays Frenchman Lucas Pouille in the first round in Vienna.
The three #NextGen ATP stars who have already qualified for Milan are all competing in Vienna. Alexander Zverev, the No. 1 player in the race, is the top seed, and he is facing Viktor Troicki in the first round. No. 2 in the standings is Andrey Rublev, who was drawn against a difficult foe in Nitto ATP Finals qualifier Dominic Thiem, the second seed. Karen Khachanov, who was the most recent player to earn his spot in Milan, is facing eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
The Race comes to a close on 30 October.

Four qualification spots remain
It will be a sprint to the end of the 2017 Emirates ATP Race To London. Two weeks remain in the Race, and half of the Nitto ATP Finals qualification spots are still available.
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem have already qualified for the prestigious event, to be held 12-19 November at The O2 in London.
But four other places remain, with Grigor Dimitrov, Pablo Carreno Busta, Sam Querrey and Kevin Anderson looking to boost their chances at the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna. Marin Cilic, David Goffin and Juan Martin del Potro will hope to do the same at the Swiss Indoors Basel.
Dimitrov might not have to wait until the new tournaments start on Monday; he could clinch his London debut on Sunday. The Bulgarian faces del Potro in the Intrum Stockholm Open final. With his second Stockholm title, the 26-year-old Dimitrov will book his place in London.
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Delpo can't qualify on Sunday, but the Argentine has an outside chance of returning to the season-ending tournament (also 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013). If he repeats as Stockholm champion on Sunday, del Potro will be 470 points behind Carreno Busta, who currently holds the final qualification spot.
The Spaniard is looking to also book his first appearance at The O2. Carreno Busta is the fourth seed in Vienna, but has a tough draw. After facing a qualifier in the first round, Carreno Busta could face Fabio Fognini of Italy or Argentine Diego Schwartzman, who will try to win his second ATP World Tour title on Sunday at the European Open in Antwerp.
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Cilic, the defending champion in Basel, needs to reach the semi-finals to officially start planning his third trip in the past four years to the Nitto ATP Finals. The second seed faces Stockholm semi-finalist Fernando Verdasco of Spain in the first round and could meet #NextGenATP countryman Borna Coric in round two. Eighth seed Mischa Zverev of Germany is the seeded favourite to meet Cilic in the quarter-finals.
Goffin, who was an alternate at the Nitto ATP Finals last year, is the third seed in Basel and might face Italian veteran Paolo Lorenzi in the second round and fifth seed Jack Sock in the quarter-finals. Anderson, the seventh seed, and Querrey, the eighth seed, will also try to make headway in Vienna.
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Federer qualified for his 15th appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals months ago, and the Swiss will look to stay sharp in his hometown tournament, where he is a seven-time champion and making his first appearance since 2015.
The 36-year-old opens against #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe, who's looking to qualify for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 7-11 November in Milan. Federer could then meet American Steve Johnson. A quarter-final with #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov would be must-see tennis, but seventh seed Adrian Mannarino might prevent that. Goffin and Sock are the favourites to face Federer in the semi-finals.

The 32 draw lines in the panel gradually filled at the draw of the Swiss Indoors in Basel's town hall after the aperitif. President Roger Brennwald (photo) was beaming. A tendency is becoming apparent. The route to the title will not be child's play for any of the starters at Switzerland's tennis highlight. Top-seeded home favourite Roger Federer would meet in the dream final the current title holder Marin Cilic, the Croatian world number 4, he too being a Major winner. All eight seeded players at Basel's tennis festival are in the top thirty of the rankings. This will be a rough steeple race for the stars in their quest for the first prize money in the amount of EUR 395,850.

At the third-largest indoor tournament of the ATP World Tour, it is no surprise that there will be battles between the generations. Master Federer will also be affected by this, who is set to go head-to-head against America's new black gem Frances Tiafoe (ATP 79). And not for the first time this year. At the US Open, the FedEx took five sets, and the score was also “only” 7:6, 6:3 in Miami. Tiafoe’s parents come from Sierra Leone, the son is considered to be a rough diamond at the age of 19.

On Super Monday the organiser will be releasing instead of the injured Rafael Nadal the Canadian belter Denis Shapovalov, among the ranking’s top hundred at the age of 18. Left handed and sporting red curls, he has already beaten Nadal, Tsonga or Del Potro among others this year. Shapovalov will be battling the 29-year-old Japanese veteran Yuichi Sugita, who won his first ATP title this year in Turkey's Antalya in 46 degrees of heat.

Eight Top 20 players are in action this week at the Erste Bank Open 500

The ATP World Tour heads to Vienna this week for the Erste Bank Open 500, where some of the game's biggest names, including German Alexander Zverev and home favourite Dominic Thiem, will look to secure one of the final titles of the season.
Zverev will be looking to capture his first title in Vienna and sixth title in 2017. The top seed has already qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals on the back of two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles (Rome, Montreal).
“This city is amazing. I think it is an old-fashioned European city like we have in my home country in Germany,” Zverev said. “I think it is great, and hopefully it is going to be a great tournament for me as well.”
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Second-seeded Thiem, who grew up just outside Vienna, will be making his seventh appearance at his home tournament. The right-hander has also already booked his return trip to the Nitto ATP Finals, but Thiem will look to reverse an 0-3 Asian swing this week in Austria.
In his opener, Thiem will meet Russia's Andrey Rublev, who, last week, qualified for the Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held 7-11 November in Milan. Rublev's countryman Karen Khachanov also secured his bid for Milan last week. The 6'6" Russian will meet eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round. Tsonga is going for his fourth title of the year on Sunday at the European Open in Antwerp.

The young professional clenches his fist. The gesture stands for power, drive, spin and emotions. All these attributes fit the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (picture), who will appear on Monday in place of the world number one, Rafael Nadal, as part of the prime time «Super Monday» at the St. Jakobshalle, following the concert by the Scottish singer, Amy Macdonald. Tennis fans will again be able to experience a talented player’s Swiss premiere. For more than 40 years, Basel has repeatedly served as a springboard for talents who would go on to reach the pinnacle of world tennis. Of course, there is also a risk when the lefthander Shapovalov unleashes his full power. Perhaps the 18-year-old’s nerves will fail him. However, a player able to grab stars like Nadal or Del Potro by the scruff of their necks on the tennis court has a genuine talent. The ATP number 50’s Russian parents emigrated to Israel after the collapse of the Soviet Union, later moving on to Canada. In this country, there is a long tradition of importing talent: one need only think of the player Milos Raonic, who originates from Bosnia & Herzegovina. Earlier, there was Greg Rusedski, whose powerful serve put Canada in the headlines. Later he would go on to play for Great Britain. Should Shapovalov perform well, he may come up against Basel’s perennial master, Roger Federer.