This Sunday the ATP Finals 2023 will begin in Turinthe tournament that brings together the eight best tennis players of the season and prepares for competition for several days on Italian soil.
One of them is Carlos Alcaraz, who starred this Friday in the most talked about moment of the day when training with Novak Djokovicin a session that delighted those present.
If that is so, This Saturday the Murcian shared training with Stefanos Tsitsipas, and things did not go well. And the session had to be delayed because of some Greek elbow discomfort.
Tsitsipas, who had to stop training the previous day for the same reason, He is set to open the tournament this Sunday (2:30 pm) against Jannik Sinner.
If in the end I can’t resist, His place will be taken by the Polish Hubert Hurkaczfirst reserve after finishing the season in 9th place in the ATP ranking.
For his part, Alcaraz will make his debut on Monday (2:30 pm) against Alexander Zverev. The one from El Palmar, even in the last tournaments in which he participated proved that he was far from his best version, the one that led him this season to win six titles including Wimbledon in July, aspires to put the climax of a good year. , who won his second Grand Slam and is the only player to surpass Djokovic, world number 1, at a major this year.
The Masters Cup, which will also put up to 1,500 points at stake – which the champion will get if they win their five games -, This is a tournament that is usually hard to come by for Spanish tennis. Only two rounds of the 53 editions have occurred without a break since 1970.
Not in vain, only Orantes and Corretja lifted the trophy in the men’s team, the first of them in the American city of Houston in 1976, winning over the Polish Wotjek Fibak in the final by 5-7, 6-2, 0-6, 7-6 and 6-1; and the second in German Hannover, defeating Spanish Carlos Moyá 3-6, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 and 7-5.
Nadal, the best tennis player the country has produced throughout history, has never been crowned master in this competition and the closest he came to achieving it was in the 2010 edition, in London, when he lost 3- 6. , 6-3 and 1-4 against the Swiss Roger Federer.
A total of 23 players from 15 countries won the ATP Finals and The tie of six titles between Federer and Djokovic could be broken by one from Belgrade in his favour and, in fact, he is the main favorite to win the trophy.
On five occasions, Czech national American Ivan Lendl and American Pete Sampras won.in four the Romanian Ilie Nastase and in three the German Boris Becker and the American John McEnroe.
The two-time champion is Swede Bjorn Borg, Australian Lleyton Hewitt and German Alexander Zverev.
Source: La Verdad
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