The last Masters 1000 match of the season will be played next week. It will be a return to the slopes Carlos Alcaraz and Novak DjokovicHe will continue to fight to finish first in the 2023 ATP rankings. There is currently a 490 point gap between them in the ATP Race, meaning the Murcian will regain the No. 1 spot if it happens. wins the tournament and the Serb fails to reach the final. In case of reaching the final and not winning, the Serbian athlete should not advance to the quarter-finals. These are the two scenarios presented at Paris-Bercy; As the main seeds, they will only be able to face each other in the final, and Djokovic will have a more complex draw than El Palmar’s.
Murcian, He will make his debut in the second round on Tuesday or Wednesday against Frenchman Alexandre Muller or England’s Cameron NorrieThe path to the final is more accessible for the Serbian compared to the one who lost the final in Rio de Janeiro and won in Buenos Aires, In his career, he can encounter very fit players such as American Ben Shelton. Holger Rune and Jannik Sinner, who won the ATP 500 in Tokyo. The player from El Palmar will advance to the third round (round of 16), where Karen Kachanov, who was defeated by Russian Daniil Medvedev in the semi-finals in Vienna yesterday, will be the player with the best classification.
Tsitsipas and Zverev in the quarter finals
Already in the quarter-finals the main threats were Greek Stefanos Tsitipas and German Alexander Zverev, but playing at home, Frenchman Ugo Humbert is another player to be reckoned with.
The favorites to face the Murcia player in the semi-finals are Casper Ruud and Daniil Medvedev. Lorenzo Musetii, Grigor Dimitov, Hubert Hurkacz and Frances Tiafoe, who did not go to Basel due to physical problems, are also among the possible opponents.
More complicated for Djokovic
Novak Djokovic, who is not in Beijing or Shanghai, has a more complicated path in a tournament where he was a finalist last year and therefore maintains just 180 points to the 600 of Alcaraz, who was eliminated in the quarter-finals. In the second round he will make his debut against Miomir Kecmanovic or Etcheveyy, while in the third round Ben Shelton will appear, who finished the season in a great way. In the quarter-finals, the world number one’s most formidable opponent is Holger Runner, and in the semi-finals he may face Jannik Sinner or Andrey Rublev..
All possible rivals
Carlos Alcaraz’s possible opponents in the second round are Alexandre Muller (84 ATP) or Cameron Norrie (18). Karen Khachanov (16), Max Purcell (41), Laslo Djere (36) and Luca Van Assche (63) took part in the last 16 round. The quarter-finals included Stefanos Tsitsipas (7), Félix Auger-Alissime (19), Jan Lennard Struff (27), Ugo Humbert (28) and Alexander Zverev (10).
In addition to Daniil Medvedev (3) and Casper Ruud (8), Gael Monfils (89), Francisco Cerundolo (21), Jiri Lehecka (31), Roberto Bautista (48), Sebastian Korda (23), Hubert Hurkacz (11). , Frances Tiafoe (14), Alexander Bublik (30), Nicolas Jarry (20), Alexei Popyrin (39), Grigor Dimitrov (17) and Lorenzo Musetti (22). And finally, Novak Djokovic (1), Ben Shelton (15), Taylor Fritz (9), Holger Rune (6), Jannik Sinner (4), Andrey Rublev (5) and Tommy Paul (12) among others.