Last year’s ATP Finals mirrored the struggles of tennis’s “sandwich generation,” caught between legends and prodigies. But this year, as the tournament roared to life on Sunday, their presence all but vanished from the elite stage. Only one player from that once-hopeful cohort, those who longed for the fall of Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic, only to be overrun by Alcaraz and Sinner, stood among the final eight. The matches burned bright, the stakes soared with 1500 points on the line, and just as the season’s crescendo began, tragedy struck the ATP Finals with the heartbreaking demise of two souls.

Turin’s electric buzz on the second day of the 2025 ATP Finals turned into heartbreak when two men, aged 70 and 78, lost their lives in separate medical emergencies only hours apart. Duri

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