The eight-man tournament for the top 21-and-under players on
the ATP Tour has a round-robin format and both players had lost their opening
Group A matches.
Rune stormed into a 3-0 lead in the opening set and -- apart
from a brief lapse of concentration in the third -- never looked back as he
imposed his aggressive baseline game, serving out the match to love to win in
just 78 minutes.
Rune had lost to favorite Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday, while
Cerúndolo was defeated by Brandon Nakashima of the United States.
Alcaraz and Nakashima were playing each other later, ahead
of the Group B matches which feature another American in Sebastian Korda as
well as home favorite Lorenzo Musetti, Frenchman Hugo Gaston and Sebastian Baez
of Argentina.
It is the fourth edition of the tournament in Milan. It was
canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The ATP Finals will
also be in Italy, in Turin next week.
There are different rules at the Next Gen Finals, including
on-court coaching, no-Ad scoring, medical timeout limits, and Hawk-Eye making
all the line calls.
The most drastic change is the shorter set, where the first
to four games takes the set, with a tiebreak at 3-3.
This year there are also shorter warm-ups, ensuring matches
begin just one minute after the players enter the court, while bathroom breaks
are timed to three minutes.
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