Many of the biggest stars will open their 2023 ATP Tour season in Adelaide and Pune in January, at the Adelaide International 1 and the Tata Open Maharashtra, which kick off on 2 January. Four players who participated in the Nitto ATP Finals will be in Adelaide, like the champion Novak Djokovic, who leads the bill and who will be joined by other figures such as No.5 Felix Aguer-Aliassime, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev.
The reserve in Turin Holger Rune will also be present in this ATP 250. Another Nitto ATP Finals champion such as Andy Murray or Jannik Sinner, who was also a reserve in Turin, will be among the players taking part in Adelaide, a list that includes recent Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals champion Brandon Nakashima and Jack Draper or Lorenzo Sonego.
Last year’s finalist in Adelaide-1 Karen Khachanov returns in this 2023 edition, while Sebastian Korda and Maxime Cressy will be two of the five American rackets. Adelaide International Tournament Director Alistair MacDonald is delighted to see a large field confirm his participation in the event.
“We are delighted to confirm a world-class line-up for the first week of the Adelaide International,” he said. Cilic tops the field in Pune No. 17 Marin Cilic tops the field in Pune, with returning finalist Emil Ruusuvuori also among the entrants.
Botic van de Zandschulp, Sebastián Báez, Jenson Brooksby and Alex Molcan are other representatives of the Top 50 in this ATP 250. There will also be other prominent names in the list of 21 confirmed players such as No.
59 Aslan Karatsev, the participant in Milan 2022 Chun-Hsin Tseng or the Dutchman Tim van Rijthoven.
Alistair MacDonald speaks about Djokovic
Assured of being able to play the Australian Open (from January 16 to 29) Novak Djokovic will start his 2023 season with the Adelaide tournament, from January 1 to 8.
Tournament director Alistair MacDonald, who has assembled an impressive line-up, spoke to News Corp about the reception the Serbian might receive. “We saw during the two weeks that Djokovic was in quarantine in Adelaide that he had a huge following here.
Covid has been a pretty tough time for everyone and his experience probably didn’t go the way he wanted last year, but 2023 is a fresh start. It’s probably not for us to judge how he’ll be received, but he’s a great player and he’s sure to generate a lot of interest.”
