{"id":424566,"date":"2025-12-04T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:34:10","slug":"nishesh-basavareddy-joins-forces-with-gilles-cervara-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424566\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishesh Basavareddy joins forces with Gilles Cervara | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Player News<br \/>\n    Basavareddy joins forces with Gilles Cervara<\/p>\n<p>American to soon compete at Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/p>\n<p>December 04, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/basavareddy-cervara-2025-december.jpg\" alt=\"Nishesh Basavareddy is now working with Gilles Cervara.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Nishesh Basavareddy is now working with Gilles Cervara.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/nishesh-basavareddy\/b0nn\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nishesh Basavareddy<\/a> has begun working with a new coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/gilles-cervara\/c691\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gilles Cervara<\/a>, the American\u2019s team confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old had a strong showing in 2025, having reached his maiden tour-level semi-final in Auckland and later climbing to a career-high No. 99 in the PIF ATP Rankings. Basavareddy took a set off 24-time major champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the first round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the second consecutive year, Basavareddy qualified for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/next-gen-atp-finals\/7696\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a>, which runs from 17-21 December in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Cervara is best known for guiding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniil-medvedev\/mm58\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> for eight successful years. During that time, Medvedev reached World No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, won the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a>, the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> and six ATP Masters 1000 trophies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Frenchman Cervara was named the ATP Coach of the Year in the ATP Awards. Cervara and Medvedev parted ways at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>Basavareddy, who turned pro last December following two seasons at Stanford University, will be one of eight players competing at the 20-and-under event in Jeddah this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jakub-mensik\/m0ni\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakub Mensik<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/learner-tien\/t0ha\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learner Tien<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-blockx\/b0pg\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Blockx<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/dino-prizmic\/p0hw\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dino Prizmic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/martin-landaluce\/l0il\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Landaluce<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/nicolai-budkov-kjaer\/b0u4\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolai Budkov Kjaer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-jodar\/j0dz\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rafael Jodar<\/a> will also be in action.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Basavareddy joins forces with Gilles Cervara American to soon compete at Next Gen ATP Finals presented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-424566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115662505642020510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}