Three minutes a day, knowing about tennis in the world. Hello fans, today is Sunday, February 23, 2025, and welcome to the afternoon newsletter brought to you by Home of Tennis.

This morning, Beijing time, the ATP 500 Acapulco station announced the men's singles main draw table. Germany's Zverev Jr., Norway's Ruud, American's Tommy Paul, and Denmark's rising star Rune led the line. China's Buyun Chaokett entered the tournament with a wild card and faced American cannon Mickelson in the first round.

The ATP 500 Dubai Open also announced the men's singles main draw earlier. Russia's Dmitry Medvedev, Australia's De Minaur, Russia's Rublev and Greece's Tsitsipas are the top four seeds. China's first brother Zhang Zhizhen signed up for the competition and will face the French cannon Perricard in the first round.

The draw for the WTA 500 Merida will be released at the same time. Rising American star Navarro, Spain's Badosa, Brazil's Maia and Russia's Kalinskaya lead the way as top four seeds. Others in the field were Vekic, Kostyuk, Fletcher, Sakkari, Stephens, etc.

WTA 250 Austin: American Pegula and Russian rising star Schneider lead the way as the top two seeds, while defending champion and China's Yuan Yue are the fourth seeds and face Australia's Birrell in the first round. Czech star Kvitova, who has made a comeback from childbirth, will make her debut against Briton Burrech in the first round.

Let's get back to the field. Last night, Beijing time, the ATP500 Doha station came to a wonderful end. In the final singles showdown, Russia's Rublev defeated rising British star Draper 7-5 5-7 6-1 to win all four of his matches and win the singles title in Doha for the second time in 2020. It was Rublev's sixth career 500 title and 17th career overall.

ATP 500 Rio: In the singles semi-finals, France's rising star Muller is in red-hot form, beating Argentine dark horse Comessana 7-5 6-7(3) 6-3 to advance to the singles final of his career's highest tournament, where he will face defending champion Báez, who defeated compatriot Carabelli 3-6 6-1 6-1.

Women's Field: In the singles final of the WTA1000 Dubai tournament, 12th seed and Russian teenager Mila Andreeva continued her hot streak by beating 22-year-old Danish rising star Towsen 7-6(1) 6-1 to claim her first 1000 title and second career title. At 17 years and 9 months, Milla became the youngest 1000 champion in women's tennis history. With the points gained by this title, Mira's world ranking will be in the top 10 in the world for the first time next week.

For such a jump speed, the Russian girl is very excited, and said that she will attack the TOP5. "Now when you're in the top 10, the higher you rank, the slower you continue to climb and it takes longer to get to a higher position...... I think it's still very difficult to get into the top five. That's exactly what I'm going to set for myself, to be in the top 5 by the end of the year, and I'm curious if I can achieve it. ”

In the doubles final, top seeds Siniakova/Townsend defeated third seeds Hsieh Shuwei/Ostapenko 7-6(5) 6-4 to win their third title since the Australian Open at the start of the year.

Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below shows a player falling during a match. Can you recognize who she is without prompting?

In the last guess, the golfer gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the Chinese player Shang Juncheng.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Maverick)