Tennis Legends Serve Up Victory in Sun-Kissed Nîmes

2024-10-08 17:32:00

Eight of the best tennis players in the world will play the Bastide Médical UTS Nîmes which takes place on April 4 and 5, 2025 in the Nîmes arenas.

In the middle, Jean Paul Fournier, Mayor of Nîmes Jean-Paul Fournier, surrounded on his right by Vincent Bastide, CEO of the Bastide Médical group, and on his left by Patrick Mouratoglou, founder of the tournament. ©UTS Tour

At the opening of the international clay court season, and six weeks before Roland-Garros, the UTS Tour will make its first appearance in France in the legendary setting of the Arènes de Nîmes, on April 4 and 5, 2025.

Eight of the world’s best players are announced. French number one Ugo Humbert and former Roland-Garros semi-finalist Gaël Monfils have already confirmed their participation, as well as Norwegian Casper Ruud (triple Grand Slam finalist) and Russian Andrey Rublev (winner of two Masters 1000 on clay in Monte-Carlo and Madrid).

Endowed with 1 million dollars, the Bastide Médical UTS Nîmes will mark the return of tennis to the Arènes de Nîmes, an amphitheater built in the 1st century, and which is associated with one of the most intense moments in the history of French tennis with the 1991 France-Australia Davis Cup quarter-final.

“UTS aims to be a competition that redefines the codes of tennis in order to make it more intense and more immersive” indicates Patrick Mouratoglou, the founder of the competition. Matches are timed with eight-minute quarters. Players only have one service ball, and the time between points is reduced to 15 seconds.

The ticket office opens this Friday, October 11 at noon. All the information is available on this site: www.uts.live.

The rules of a UTS match

• Four eight-minute quarters.
• The first player to reach three quarters wins the match.
• If it is 2-2, the players compete for sudden death.
• In sudden death, the first player to earn two consecutive points wins the match.
• Only one service ball.
• 15 seconds between points.
• Once per quarter, each player can trigger the “next point triple count” card. So he scores three points instead of just one if he wins the next point.
• The referee and his two assistants can trigger VAR (video assistance refereeing) if they decide.

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