TURIN, Italy — Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have been positioned in several teams for the ATP Finals in Thursday’s draw. The earliest they may meet is the semifinals.
The Ilie Nastase Group options Sinner, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur.
The John Newcombe Group options Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev. The teams are named for the primary No. 1s within the ATP rankings.
The match for the 12 months’s high eight males’s gamers begins Sunday. The highest two finishers in every group advance to the semifinals.
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Sinner (Australian Open and US Open) and Alcaraz (French Open and Wimbledon) break up the 12 months’s 4 Grand Slam titles between them. Alcaraz gained all three official conferences with Sinner this 12 months and holds a 6-4 benefit of their profession head-to-head rivalry. Final month, Sinner beat Alcaraz within the Six Kings Slam exhibition in Saudi Arabia.
The one two gamers within the area to have gained the finals are Zverev and Medvedev. Zverev gained in London in 2018 and Turin in 2021; Medvedev triumphed in 2020, the ultimate 12 months the occasion was held in London.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic withdrew on Tuesday citing an damage, making it the primary time in 23 years that the ATP Finals will likely be held with none of the Huge Three of Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.
“It is unusual to not see Novak right here, simply due to all of the success he had,” Zverev stated. “The primary time I gained in 2018, you needed to beat each or at the least two of the three gamers. I beat Federer within the semis, after which I beat Djokovic within the finals. You needed to beat these guys to have an opportunity on the title. So it does really feel completely different.”
