The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz was included this Thursday in the ‘John Newcombe Group’ of the ATP Finalsalongside the German Alexander Zverev, the Norwegian Casper Ruud and the Russian Andrey Rublev and thus avoids the Italian Jannik sinner. The one from El Palmar started as the third seed because he was world number three and could face the number one in the ATP rankings, but in the end they will not meet, at least, before the semi-finals.
The Italian is part of the “Ilie Nastase Group” where he will face the Russian Daniil Medvedev, the American Taylor Fritz and the Australian Alex de Miñaur. The top two from each group will advance to the semi-finals. of this tournament which takes place in Turin (north) from November 10 to 17, that is to say those who will obtain the most victories – in the event of a tie, the head-to-head confrontations or the percentages of sets and Games won will be taken into account.
The Spanish tennis player, world number 3, He will therefore face Zverevwho arrives as second seed, with Ruudseventh in the ranking, and with Rublevninth and who obtained the ranking thanks to the loss of the Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Alcaraz intends to finish the course in his second participation in an ATP finalformer Masters tournament, after a year in which he won two Grand Slam tournaments, Roland Garros and Wimbledon; the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells and the ATP 500 in Beijing. The Murcian He was unable to participate in the 2022 edition of the ATP Finals due to injury. abdominal.
Alcaraz and Sinner, favorites
THE Novak Djokovic absentcurrent champion and player with the most titles in this last event of the year, with seven in total, surpassing the Swiss Roger Federer by one, leaves Alcaraz and Sinner as main favorites for the titlewho is already assured of being world number 1 for the season and who lost last year in the final against the Serbian.
Thus, the confrontation between Alcaraz and sinnerundisputed leaders of the new generation, This would only happen in a hypothetical semi-final or final.. The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas will also not be there after five consecutive editions for finishing twelfth in the ranking, so he will not be able to repeat his success from 2019, leaving the cast with only Medvedev and Zverev as winners. The Russian achieved this in 2020 and the Sasha twice, in 2018 and 2021.
Granollers and Zeballos, doubles favorites
The pair formed by the Spaniards Marcel Granollers and the Argentinian Horacio Zeballosnumber 1 couple in the ranking, will participate in the ATP Finals in the doubles category for the fifth consecutive year. They were finalists in 2020 and 2021 and semi-finalists in the last edition.
The numbers 1 remained framed in the “Mike Bryan Group” with the couple formed by the Dutchman Wesley Koolhof and the Croatian Nikola Metic; Australians Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson; and the duo of Finnish Harri Eliovaara and Englishman Henry Patten.
The other group of doubles, the ‘Bob Bryan‘, is formed by the Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo and the Croatian Mate Pavc; the Italians Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori; the Indian Rohan Bopanna and the Australian Matthew Ebden; and the Germans Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz.
