Carlos Alcaraznumber 1 in the world and who this Thursday will face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the round of 16 of the Masters 1,000 in Paris Bercy, You already know the names of your opponents in the Nitto ATP Finalsthe Masters Cup, which will be held in the Italian city of Turin from November 13 to 20 with the presence of the eight best tennis players of the year, and against whom the Murcian has a record of six wins and three losses this 2022 .
Felix Auger Aliassime and Andrey Rublev were the last players to qualify for the event to take place in northern Italy and both join a list that includes Alcaraz, the player with the most points since January, specifically 6,730 to date; Rafa Nafal, second with 5,820; Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud, Daniil Medvedev and Novak Djokovic.
They are all competing or competing this week in Paris Bercy and six are still competing for the title in the French capital. Nadal is out of this tournamentwho fell last night 6-3, 6-7 (4) and 1-6 against American Tommy Paul; and Medvedevdropped 4-6, 6-2 and 5-7 against Australian Alex de Miñaur.
The Pala Alpitour in Turin will host the end of the ATP party, where Alcaraz will debut with a background that makes him one of the great favorites to be crowned champion of a competition that will break its prize allocation record with 14.75 million dollars -4.7 for the winner if he is crowned undefeated, which is the biggest prize money for a tennis player in the history of this sport.
Juan Carlos Ferrero’s student This year he has faced five of the seven opponents that will appear in that tournament and he has defeated all of them except Auger Aliassime.
The one from Montreal, the black beast of the one from El Palmar, recently won the semifinals of the ATP 500 in Basel (3-6 and 2-6) and shortly before the Spain-Canada Davis Cup match held in Valencia (7-6 (3), 4-6 and 2-6).
Along with Nadal, Alcaraz has played twice in 2022 Losing to Murcia in the semifinals of Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells (4-6, 6-4 and 3-6) and winning the quarterfinals of Madrid (6-2, 1-6 and 6-3).
Ruud and Tsitsipas were also measured on two occasions. Al from Oslo defeated him in the finals of the Masters 1,000 in Miami (7-5and 6-4) and in the US Open (6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1) 6-3) and the one from Athens in the round of 16 in Miami (7-5 and 6-3) and in the quarterfinals of the ATP 500 in Barcelona (6-4, 5-7 and 6-2).
while, Djokovic was defeated by Alcaraz in the semifinals in Madrid (6-7 (5), 7-5 and 7-6 (5)).
Against Medvedev and Rublev Carlos did not play this seasonalthough he crossed paths with Daniil in 2021 losing in the second round of Wimbledon (4-6, 1-6 and 2-6).
Source: La Verdad
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