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The Handover: Puppets pull the strings on ATP Tour
Watch Fritz, De Minaur, Musetti face a puppet takeover in Paris
October 29, 2025
Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Alex de Minaur and Taylor Fritz’s puppets hit the gymnasium in Paris.
By ATP Employees
It began as a easy concept. Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz and Lorenzo Musetti had been grinding by the ATP Tour season, chasing PIF ATP Rankings factors, trophies and sleep in equal measure.
Someplace between a coaching block and a long-haul flight, a thought struck De Minaur: what if another person might deal with press conferences, photoshoots and fan content material — so we might keep targeted on the tennis?
Enter: the puppets.
#TheHandover: How it began…
At first, the plan appeared foolproof. The handmade doubles of the trio — full with miniature racquets, finely stitched hair, and a stunning quantity of angle — had been dropped at lighten the load. The gamers might prepare; the puppets might carry out. Easy. Efficient. Genius, even.
All of it started on the Rolex Paris Masters. However because the cameras rolled, one thing sudden occurred. The puppets weren’t content material to be background characters. They began improvising, speaking again, they usually had been so practical that they began stealing the highlight.
The puppets meet in Paris. Picture: Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Nonetheless, in traditional ATP Tour trend, everybody’s taking it in stride.
The Handover has grow to be the most recent must-watch social sequence. Keep tuned on the ATP Tour’s Instagram account to search out out who is admittedly operating the present.
The puppets aren’t saying a lot, although they’ll see you on Tour.
