Carlos Alcaraz will defend only 400 points the rest of the year on the ATP circuit and almost guaranteed to finish 2024 on the world podium, even the German Alexander Zverev threatening the second place it now occupies.
As November approaches, the Paris-Bercy Masters 1,000which starts this Sunday, and the Nitto ATP Finalsfrom November 10 to 17 in Turin. Between them, 2,500 points will be at stake and, then, the Final Eight of the Davis Cup will be held, which the young tennis player from El Palmar, 21 years old, will face at the head of the Spanish team from November 19 to 24 in Malaga
Focusing on the immediate, the student of Juan Carlos Ferrero will play in Paris-Bercy, where in 2023 he fell for the first time, in his case in the second round, against the Russian Roman Safiullin by 3-6 and 4- 6. Therefore, they added only 10 points, which they secured this year by starting again directly from the second round.
In the Masters Cup he won two of the four matches he played and lost in the semifinals against Serbian Novak Djokovic, the eventual champion. Those wins gave the Spaniard 400 points.
Calculator at hand Alcaraz can add up to 2,090 to your current account and, in any case, will stay away from the Italian Jannik Sinnerthe undisputed ATP leader this season with 11,920 points.
The San Candido native was runner-up at the Nitto ATP Finals a year ago and only reached the quarterfinals at Paris-Bercy, which would take him to defend 1,090 points between the two tournaments.
Second position is at stake for Alcarazwhich is now his with 7,120, to 6,795 accumulated by Zverev. The one from Hamburg also got 400 points in Turin by winning two games and 90 more in Paris by being the eighth-finalist.
Djokovic is fourth in the international ranking, with 6,210. The one from Belgrade gave up playing in Paris and lost the 1,000 points he achieved there last year when he was champion. He would defend 1,300 points in Turin, where he also won the title, losing only one game in the five he played. So, he couldn’t reach Alcaraz.
Yes, they can do it, even with distant options, Russian Daniil Medvedev, fifth on the list with 5,530; and the American Taylor Fritz, sixth with 4,380 The one from Moscow, like Alcaraz, fell in the second round in France and added 400 points in Italy. Assuming he wins two tournaments this year he will reach 7,620. Meanwhile, the one from California will have to be champion in Paris and Turin, in this case with an absolute victory, to have any chance of catching Alcaraz and that considering that the Murcian won’t win any more matches to the ATP in 2024.
The podium, therefore, seems to be a given for the Murcian, who will make his Paris-Bercy debut on Tuesday or Wednesday as he is exempt in the first round. His rival will win the duel between Chilean Nicolás Jarry, world number 34, and a player from the qualifying phase. He would later meet Frenchman Ugo Humbert, number 16, in the round of 16; with Norwegian Casper Ruud, 8th, or American Tommy Paul, 12th, in the quarterfinals; with Medvedev or the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, number 9, in the semifinals; and now with Sinner or Zverev in a hypothetical final.
Source: La Verdad
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