Tsitsipas and Nakashima added to UTS Gothenburg field
The UTS Tour has confirmed Stefanos Tsitsipas and Brandon Nakashima for its season-ending Super Stage at the Scandinavium on 12-13 December, taking the line-up to five of eight players with US$1 million and the year-end UTS crown at stake.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas and Brandon Nakashima will play UTS Gothenburg on 12-13 December, the UTS Tour announced on Friday.
The pair join Holger Rune, Alexander Bublik and Luciano Darderi, bringing the field to five of the eight players who will contest the season-ending Super Stage at the 10,000-seat Scandinavium.
The event carries a prize pot of US$1 million, with up to US$511k for the winner, and decides the UTS Year-End World No. 1. The remaining three names are expected in the coming weeks.
Tsitsipas : “ready for the challenge”
Tsitsipas, a former World No. 3 and two-time Grand Slam finalist, has played the format three times in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2026 in Nîmes, reaching the semi-finals at UTS New York in 2024. He arrives off his best major result in two years: ranked No. 53 and unseeded, he beat Arthur Fils and Jiri Lehecka at the US Open this month to reach the fourth round there for the first time.
Since June he has been coached by Patrick Mouratoglou, who founded UTS.
“Winning my first title indoors in Stockholm was an unforgettable moment at the start of my career, so coming back to Sweden to chase another trophy in Gothenburg is really exciting,” Tsitsipas said in the announcement. “The UTS format is extremely demanding and the field is incredibly strong, but I’m ready for the challenge.”
Nakashima won UTS Rio in July on his first appearance in the format, then reached the semi-finals in Washington, the final in Montreal – his first at Masters 1000 level – and the semi-finals in Cincinnati, climbing to a career-high World No. 16. He was named to Andre Agassi’s Team World for the Laver Cup on Thursday, replacing Ben Shelton.
Gothenburg follows UTS Nîmes, won by Félix Auger-Aliassime in April, and UTS Rio. The two-day format runs four quarter-finals on day one and five matches on day two, including classification matches, semi-finals and the final.
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