Andrey Rublev has been confirmed as the eighth and final player for UTS Gothenburg by BNP Paribas, and the draw that followed sets up an opening match aimed straight at the Swedish crowd. Leo Borg will face top seed Félix Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinals at the Scandinavium arena on Dec. 12, with his father Björn Borg in the stands. The two players have never met.

The season-ending Super Stage, played Dec. 12-13, will crown the UTS Year-End World No. 1. The eight players will share a $1 million prize money pot.

The quarterfinals:

Félix Auger-Aliassime (No. 1) vs. Leo Borg
Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Luciano Darderi
Holger Rune vs. Alexander Bublik
Brandon Nakashima (No. 2) vs. Andrey Rublev

The two seeds went to the stage winners of the 2026 season. Auger-Aliassime won Bastide UTS Nîmes in April, and Nakashima won UTS Rio presented by XP in July. They are the two men best placed to take the year-end crown, and they cannot meet before the final.

The field includes four players with top-5 pedigree in Rune, Tsitsipas, Auger-Aliassime and Rublev. Bublik has been a top-10 player this season, Nakashima and Darderi are rising top-20 players, and Borg is the local hope.

UTS is an event where you have to commit fully to prevail

Rublev is the last man in. He is also a two-time UTS champion, in Frankfurt in 2023 and Oslo in 2024, and one of the format’s most committed regulars. The world No. 22 lost to Auger-Aliassime in sudden death in the semifinals in Nîmes in April. He has also won in Sweden this year: in July, he beat Darderi to win a second Båstad title, the 18th of his career.

“UTS is an event where you have to commit fully to prevail,” Rublev said. “I’ve been through every kind of emotion on this tour, and I know from experience how exciting the year-end event is. Being back in Sweden, where I won a trophy this year in Båstad, is a real pleasure too.”

His quarterfinal against Nakashima comes with a 3-1 head-to-head in the Russian’s favor. Rublev’s last two wins both came in the round of 16 at Masters 1000 level in 2024, in Cincinnati and in Canada.

Rune and Bublik already know each other on the UTS Tour

Nakashima’s only win came on clay in Barcelona the same season. The American arrives in Gothenburg as a different player, though: he is ranked No. 17, reached a Masters 1000 final in Montreal and won a UTS title at his first attempt in Rio.

Tsitsipas and Darderi bring the richest recent history of the four quarterfinals. The Greek leads their head-to-head 2-0, after a straight-sets win at the Shanghai Masters this month and a three-set match in Halle in 2025.

Darderi, ranked No. 23 and the 2025 Båstad champion, is the higher-ranked player and has a score to settle. The two have never played each other under UTS rules, because Darderi will be playing the format for the first time.

Rune and Bublik already know each other well on the UTS Tour. The Dane knocked the Kazakh out at UTS London in 2023, in sudden death, and again in 2024. Rune also leads their ATP head-to-head 2-1, including an indoor win in Paris in 2024, the same conditions they will face in Gothenburg.

The quarterfinals are all played on the first day. The second day has five matches: classification matches, the semifinals and the final, which decide the champion and the year-end standings. The winner can earn up to $511,000.