The tennis player who scrapped the Australian Open: “I prefer ATP points to money”

While many players dream of accessing the main draw of the Australian Openothers take advantage of the different tournaments around the world to gain confidence and rise in the ATP ranking, just like the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic (112°), which rejected the qualy of the Major oceanic to dispute the Challenger 75 from Oeiras I.
“Mainly it was because of the points and because it is a great trip, even if it is not guaranteed that I win here. Nowadays I prefer ATP points to money, I want to enter the Top 100 as soon as possible“, announced the Novi-born Pazar, 21, at a press conference, after reaching the quarterfinals in the Portuguese event.
Despite going through the qualifying phase in four of his seven Grand Slam appearances, the recent finalist at the ATP 250 in Belgrade opted to completely change your calendar with respect to 2023 and 2024presenting himself as the top favorite on the Portuguese cement to fulfill the logic by achieving victories against the Russian Egor Gerasimov (368°) and the local Frederico Ferreira Silva (307°).
Just 34 units After debuting among the top 100 in the ranking, the champion of the Next Gen Finals 2023, helped financially by his legendary compatriot Novak Djokovic (7th) in his beginnings, will face the Hungarian in the next instance Zsombor Piros (248th), seventh seed.
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