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Tickets for the 2023 ATP Finals are almost sold out with the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation president revealing incredible figures ahead of this year’s tournament.
The Pala Alpitour in Turin will host the season-ending climax for the third consecutive year with the event getting underway on Sunday, November 12 and coming to a conclusion the following Sunday, November 19 with both the doubles and singles finals.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic headlines the line-up along with reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner, Andrey Rublev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev and Holger Rune.
During the draw ceremony, Italian tennis president Angelo Binaghi revealed that 96.5% of the tickets have already been sold out, which amounts to a total of 160,612 tickets sold.
“It’s a celebration for our tennis players who are getting bigger and bigger,” Binaghi said. “It is for the ATP who believed in us, giving us this opportunity.
“It is for those who supported us, the State, the Italian and foreign sponsors who would like to do it even more but we no longer have space. It is for those who created this great success with us, sport and health and the management committee. It is for the territory, the municipality, the region. Finally, it will be for all the players, to whom we welcome.”
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And then Binaghi went further to give a breakdown of where the majority of the ticket buyers are from with Switzerland accounting for 4.46% of sales, Germany 2.9%, England 2.79% and Brazil 2.72% before dropping this little gem “not even one from Saudi Arabia”
His full quote was: “Out of a total of 166,470 salable tickets we sold 160,612 (40.2% from abroad, from 95 different countries, nine more than last year, major buyers: Switzerland 4.46%, Germany 2.9%, England 2.79% and Brazil 2.72%, not even one from Saudi Arabia) equal to 96.5% of salable tickets.”
Binaghi’s comment was probably in reference to reports that Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to host more ATP Tour events in future.
The Middle Eastern country has already managed to get the hosting rights for this year’s ATP Next Gen Finals with the event running from November 28 to December 2 at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah.
Milan hosted the tournament from 2017 to 2022.
ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi has also revealed that he held “positive” discussions with Saudi officials this year about a partnership and there are rumours that Riyadh could host an ATP Masters 1000 event in January 2025 with the tournament set to be a warm-up event for the Australian Open.
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