Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev are the main threats for the Serbian. It all starts this Sunday.
The 2023 season says goodbye with the championship among the eight best tennis players of the year. The now classic ATP Finals, which provide 1,500 points for the ranking, will begin this Sunday in Italy and will have Novak Djokovic as the main protagonist. The Serbian won three Grand Slams during the year, has just been crowned at the Masters 1000 in Paris and will try to lift the Masters Tournament for the seventh time in his career.
But there is a tennis player who wants to spoil the party: Carlos Alcaraz. The Spaniard will participate for the first time in this event (he abandoned last year due to injury) which brings together the eight tennis players having totaled the most points during the season, at the same time as he arrives as second best tennis player on the circuit. He won Wimbledon and was crowned in five other tournaments, including Indian Wells and Madrid. Now, on Italian indoor cement, he will try to be the second player in history to be champion of the ATP Next Generation Final and the Masters Tournament. Stefanos Tsitsipas, who will also participate in the tournament, was the first to achieve this in 2019.
In fact, the Greek took a leading role after his controversial statements about the value of the event compared to the big four on the calendar. “It’s a real party. The ATP Finals are a celebration of the best of the best in our sport. We play against each other and focus on being the best in the world to try to fight for this big trophy, one of the biggest in our sport. Honestly, I would consider this probably bigger than a Grand Slam. . It has great prestige and is very valuable if you are able to conquer it and win it,” he said just before the start of the tournament.
On that day, the distribution of the groups of the event was also known. In the green group there will be Novak Djokovic (1st), Jannik Sinner (4th), Stefanos Tsitsipas (6th) and Holger Rune (10th), while red appears Carlos Alcaraz (2nd), Daniil Medvedev (3rd), Andrey Rublev (5th) and Alexander Zverev.
Of the eight players who will be in Turin, four already know what it means to be champion. Djokovic has done it six times (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2022), Zverev twice (2018 and 2021) , while Medvedev (2020) and Tsitsipas (2019) once. If “Nole” wins his seventh title, he will be the player who has won the tournament the most times, as he is currently tied with Roger Federer.
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