Fabio Fognini (Italian pronunciation: ; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked as the world number 11 by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Fognini’s most successful surface is red clay, upon which he has won nine ATP singles titles, most notably at the 2019 Monte-Carlo Masters, as well as having reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 French Open. Together with Simone Bolelli, Fognini won the 2015 Australian Open doubles championship, becoming the first all-Italian men’s pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era.
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios (/ˈkɪriɒs/ KIRR-ee-oss; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 13 achieved on 24 October 2016 and is the sixth highest-ranked Australian in the current ATP rankings. Kyrgios has won six ATP titles and has reached nine ATP finals, including the 2017 Cincinnati Masters where he lost in the final to Grigor Dimitrov. In his junior career, Kyrgios won the boys’ singles event at the 2013 Australian Open and the boys’ doubles event at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. During his professional career, Kyrgios reached the quarterfinals of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships—upsetting then world no. 1 Rafael Nadal and world no. 13 Richard Gasquet en route—and the quarterfinals of the 2015 Australian Open. Kyrgios is only the third player, after Dominik Hrbatý and fellow Australian Lleyton Hewitt, to have beaten Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic the first time he played each of them.