UTS founder Patrick Mouratoglou was unable to attend the 2024 UTS Grand Final, however, provided his detailed thoughts about the event overall.

Speaking about this different experience:

“It was an opportunity to live the UTS experience in a different way, through a screen ; it’s also what it’s designed for. And it was yet a great experience. I don’t have usually a lot of time to watch the UTS matches on a device. All the corrections we can do between each event, I see them live. And I only watch the replay afterwards. I think this experience was useful for me to get into the user’s experience live. What I could feel was that it was a great event again, we still progress every time and the great thing is I also feel that people are more and more excited about UTS.”

Mouratoglou also stated:

“We are a real tournament where players are giving their all. They want to win, they get pissed when they don’t, they have emotions, they’re suffering physically, they want it badly. Yes it is super entertaining,” and continued “there’s fun, there’s music, there’s craziness, there’s all those things that you don’t have in the classical tennis but, on the other hand, you also have an incredible competition. I also could feel that the atmosphere in the stadium was incredible. It’s something that I’d like to feel more in the future. It’s important for the viewers on screen that the experience is as close as possible to the one in stadium.”

Alex “The Demon” de Minaur was ultimately victorious on Sunday’s final, lifting the Zeus trophy in London. The coaching superstar highlighted what it is about the Australian’s game that makes him so dangerous in the UTS format:

“It’s interesting to see that the players who are best at UTS are the most consistent players. They’re the ones that are physically the best in terms of cardio in terms of ability to bring balls back, counterpunchers most of the time, but it’s mostly incredibly consistent players. When we speak about Alex de Minaur, that’s what he is. The guy doesn’t miss a shot. To put him out of position is so difficult. But he’s not a pusher at all, he’s aggressive and he works the opponent, he destroys him physically because of his presence, because of the fact that there are no easy points. All that because he’s physically a beast.”