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Justin Engel: In Focus

Justin Engel will make his debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF and become the first German to compete at the 20-and-under event.

Engel grabbed headlines with his quarter-final run at the ATP 250 on home soil in Stuttgart in June. By winning his first-round match at the grass-court event — at 17 years and eight months old — he became the second-youngest player, after Rafael Nadal, to claim a tour-level win on all three surfaces (since 1990). Last year, the German won a tour-level match on hard courts in Almaty, and in May, he earned a victory on clay in Hamburg.

Engel then carried that momentum into a career-best stretch on the ATP Challenger Tour between September and November, posting a 12-7 main-draw record, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, including his first title in Hamburg. With that triumph, he made history as the first player born in 2007 to lift a Challenger trophy.

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