ATP Finals Group: Who will be in the same group as Djokovic and Alcaraz?

Carlos Alcaraz, the first to land in Turin, and Novak Djokovic, the last to do so, knew before the ATP Finals round robin draw that they would not be drawn together. given the fact they are the top two seeds.

Likewise, both the Spaniard and the Serb knew that either Daniil Medvedev (3) or Jannik Sinner (4), two of the most in-form players, as demonstrated by their finals at the Beijing and Vienna Open 500, were going to be drawn with them.

Alcaraz will finally share the red group with two Russians, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, and Alexander Zverev, a native of Hamburg but of Russian parents. In the green group, Djokovic's, will be Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune.

The pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero draws the head-to-head with Medvedev and Zverev, two and three wins, respectively, and there are no previous meetings against Rublev, with whom he is due to play on Thursday.

Two of his three opponents already know what it's like to have their names on the tournament's trophy cabinet. Daniil did it in 2020 and Zverev twice, in 2018 and 2021.

The two-time major champion's debut will be on Monday 13 November with Zverev on the other side of the net, starting at 2.30pm.

Carlitos worked out for the first time yesterday at the Alpitour with Joao Fonseca, the number one junior, a Brazilian national and newly crowned US Open champion in the category.

Fonseca, ranked 676 in the ATP at the age of 17, has decided to study at the University of Virginia before taking the leap to ing the professional tour.

The presence of Sinner, who has already played two reserve matches in the 2021 edition, has caused a frenzy in Turin to the point of being practically sold out for the evening sessions, starting at 9 p.m., at the charming Alpitour.

Only Europeans in the running for the third time

One fact makes clear the supremacy of European tennis players in the sport of racket sports: for the third time in history, all the masters in Turin were born on the old continent.

That circumstance had previously occurred in the 2019 and 2021 editions. And if you take into that the future goes through names like Alcaraz and Rune, 20, and Sinner, 22, more times it seems that it will be repeated. Carlitos and Jannik, two of the big draws, will bring the streets of Turin to a standstill tomorrow when they visit the Nike shop, the American brand that dresses them.

The highest prize in history

While the WTA tennis players complain about not having the same prize money as the men, the ATP will put 15 million dollars on the table at the Masters Cup, of which 4,801,500 dollars will go to the winner of the master's crown.

Granollers, in the doubles

Marcel Granollers, in his eighth participation in the Masters event and his fourth with Argentine Horacio Zeballos, will be in the green group. Their opposing pairings will be: Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek (1), Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (4) and Argentinians Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.

It is worth ing that the player from Barcelona was crowned in the 2012 edition alongside his compatriot Marc Lopez.