Getty Images There are three tournaments on this week’s ATP schedule, headlined by the BNP Paribas Nordic Open. It is an ATP 250 event on indoor hard courts, with 690,135 Euros in available prize money–104,985 Euros of which goes to the champion. Andrey Rublev is the top seed and there is no defending champion, as…
Holger Rune and Casper Ruud will officially play each other as part of the 2024 Nordic Battle in home and away ties. Rune from Denmark and Ruud from Norway are considered the best Scandinavian players of their generation, and a recent online interaction sparked interest in a possible exhibition showdown in their respective countries. Rune…
Ken Schofield, executive director of the European Tour from 1975 to 2004, had just the one Swede, a Gunnar Mueller, among his players at the start of his reign. “The rise of the Swedes and the rest of the Scandinavian players who followed them has all happened in the last 50 years, and from a…
