The Old Continent promises to lead the forefront of tennis for many years. This is what emerges from everything that happened this season, a range of opposing trends in which great veterans have come together clinging to power with promising youngsters emerging without embarrassment. Although it is true that the tennis power in Europe has been palpable for years, it is not usual that among the eight teachers who compete in the ATP Finals there is no American, Australian or Asian tennis player. The top-10 at the end of the season will also be dominated by men born and raised in Europe, demonstrating the surprise that has occurred to the dominant American school during the last century.
The last time that everyone present at the event that brings together the best at the end of the season was lacking in non-EU players was in 2019, but between that date and 2016 something like this had never happened. Players like Kei Nishikori, Milos Raonic, Juan Martín Del Potro O Andy Roddick They assured for years that there would be no European plenary session, which was recently joined by Kevin Anderson, Diego Schwartzman, Jack Sock and John Isner. But they have been no more than flashes. There are competitive and non-European young players, such as Álex de Miñaur, Denis Shapovalov, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe O Reilly Opelka, but for the moment they are a step below in terms of projection of Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz, and of course far behind what men such as Ruud, Berrettini, Hurkacz, Norrie, Tsitsipas, Zverev or Medvedev have already shown.
In the last 15 editions of the ATP Finals, only in two were there more than two non-European players
Everything that has happened in the Laver Cup editions is a faithful reflection of how unbalanced the tennis map is at the moment, but the most notable thing is that in the short and medium term the trend is only increasing. It is difficult to imagine soon an ATP Finals in which there are more than two non-European tennis players, something that has only happened twice in the last 15 years; one of them was in 2006, when David Nalbandián, Andy Roddick and James Blake they got among the best, and the other one in 2018, with John Isner, Kevin Anderson y Kei Nishikori settled in the elite. The future is seen in blue and with the hymn of joy in the background. Europe has dominated, dominates and will dominate.
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