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Hurkacz & Jabeur ring Nasdaq Closing Bell earlier than US Open Opening Bell

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August 22, 2024

In tennis, the closing bell is when the chair umpire calls, “Sport, set and match”. Hubert Hurkacz and Ons Jabeur participated in a special model of it Wednesday in Manhattan.

The ATP and WTA star visited the Nasdaq MarketSite in Instances Sq. to ring the Closing Bell alongside USTA Chairman of the Board and President Dr. Brian Hainline and USTA CEO Lew Sherr.

“It was so cool. Did not know what to anticipate coming right here. That was simply a lot enjoyable,” Hurkacz instructed ATPTour.com. “Clearly Nasdaq is so large. To participate in such an occasion that’s actually well-known across the world is particular. To see your face in Instances Sq. is somewhat bit surreal.”

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Hurkacz and Jabeur spoke to Nasdaq representatives, carried out social media interviews and did a gown rehearsal for the Closing Bell earlier than the true factor. As they carried out the duty at 4 p.m. native time, folks from world wide watched on tv and streams.

“It was tremendous enjoyable being right here immediately to ring the closing bell at Nasdaq,” Jabeur mentioned. “It was a enjoyable expertise, I would by no means executed that earlier than. There may be all the time enjoyable stuff to do [for] the primary time. It was very good to start out the week in New York right here.”

Hurkacz, the No. 7 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings, is worked up for the season’s closing main. In a metropolis the place he first performed as a junior a decade in the past, the Pole remains to be seeing new issues like he did Wednesday. After ringing the Closing Bell, Hurkacz and Jabeur ventured out into Instances Sq. to look at as their effort was displayed on a large billboard for everybody to see.

“Seeing Instances Sq. for the primary time, it makes such an enormous impression,” Hurkacz mentioned. “It is tough to explain in phrases. Then seeing somewhat little bit of your face out there’s actually cool.

“Simply the expertise proper there within the centre of Manhattan, closing the bell for the day is type of a surreal expertise. It is actually unimaginable as a tennis participant what issues you possibly can expertise that you simply by no means imagined earlier than in your life that you’d do.”

Hurkacz is mostly fascinated by funding and a few of his shut mates who’ve expertise assist him with it. The Pole defined that you will need to take into consideration the longer term, despite the fact that he’s totally centered on his skilled tennis profession.

“I hope I am taking part in for over 10 extra years. If I am wholesome, that is what I am doing. On the finish of the day, for a tennis participant, I feel it is tough if someday you both determine to finish your profession or are about to complete the profession, or possibly the physique is not as match as earlier than and it is tough to finish,” Hurkacz mentioned. “To transition similar to that to a very totally different life, then it is tough.

“However for those who’re planning your future, when you have set objectives, when you have funding plans or possibly you’ve some enterprise concepts, or you’ve mates that enable you to out, then you possibly can navigate simpler your post-career and in addition take pleasure in a special aspect of life. As a tennis participant, you might be actually 100 per cent dedicated to changing into a greater participant each single day.”

The eight-time ATP Tour titlist will hope for a deep run at Flushing Meadows after quarter-final appearances in Montreal and Cincinnati following surgical procedure for a torn meniscus he suffered at Wimbledon.

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