Having featured in the 2015 SEA Games and 2019 Davis Cup on home soil, Shaheed Alam is no stranger to big tennis matches in front of a home crowd.
But Singapore's highest-ranked ATP player will face his biggest test tomorrow at the OCBC Arena when he competes in the first qualifying round of next week's ATP 250 Singapore Tennis Open - and probably without a crowd cheering him on.
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