New Year's Eve in Doha: season opener for Seppi

The 34-year-old from Kaltern will face Russian Andrey Rublev, 250 years his junior, in the first round of the ATP 13 tournament “Qatar Exxonmobil Open” in Doha. Seppi is currently number 37 in the world rankings, Rublev is number 68. The Kalterer made his last appearance on the tour two months ago when he was eliminated in the starting round of qualifying for the Masters 1000 tournament in Paris against the American Denis Kudla.

He then moved to his new home in the US state of Colorado, where he was able to prepare for the new season for five weeks. Seppi then spent Christmas at home in South Tyrol.

Soon the $10 million will fall Seppi begins his 17th professional season in Doha. He achieved his best result there in 2015, when he only failed in the semi-finals against Tomas Berdych. Seppi could soon set another milestone in his career and break the barrier of $10 million in prize money. So far in his career, the Kalterer has collected $9.821.000. Seppi has to defend a lot of ATP points After Doha, Seppi will play the ATP 250 tournament in Sydney (January 6th to 12th) before the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, begins in Melbourne on January 14th. The Davis Cup game against India is scheduled for February 1st and 2nd in Calcutta.

Seppi has to defend a total of 476 ATP points in the first two months of the new year. Last year he won the Challenger tournament in Canberra at the beginning of January (80 points), reached the round of 180 in Melbourne two weeks later (190) and reached the semi-finals in Rotterdam in mid-February (XNUMX).

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New Year's Eve in Doha: season opener for Seppi

After exactly two months of break, Andreas Seppi returns to the ATP tour on Monday.

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