Starting next Sunday, November 12, Carlos Alcaraz will compete in the ATP Finals in Turin. The tennis player from El Palmar, who could not play last year due to his injury, ranks 2nd in the ATP Race and has the possibility of adding 1,500 points to the 8,455 points he currently has.. The goal is to finish the 2023 season by winning the Masters Tournament for the first time in his career, as Novak Djokovic has almost no options to finish the year first and to do so he must not add a single point and win everything. accessible to the year’s best eight.

Raffle and game system

The draw for the tournament will be held next Thursday at 9 am and 3 pm. There will be four pots and tennis players will play the first stage where they will face each other.. So, Three matches will be played per group, with the top two advancing to the semi-finals.. Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will be in the 1st pot, and as the first seeds, they will not be able to face each other until the final. In the 2nd pot, Russian Daniil Medvedev and Italian Jannik Sinner will take part; Russian Andrey Rublev and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in 3; and Germany’s Alexander Zverev and Denmark’s Holger Rune in fourth place. So the Murcian will face one of the rest of the drums.

Points distributed by ATP Finals

ATP Finals have a special structure regarding the distribution of ATP points. Each victory in the group stage is worth 200 points. The winners of the semi-finals will receive another 400 prizes. And the winner of the tournament gets 500. So, A tennis player can earn a maximum of 1,500 pointsBut for this they need to win all the matches. Additionally, to advance to the group stage; In case of a tie in final victories, the number of sets and even games won will be taken into account in tiebreaks..

Where to watch on TV

The matches can be followed on Spanish television via Movistar. Group stage matches will start at two o’clock in the afternoon on Sunday the 12th.. Two matches from each group will be played every day. Round Robin runs through Friday the 17th. On Saturday, the 18th, the semi-finals will be held at two in the afternoon and nine at night. The final will be played on Sunday, November 19, at seven o’clock in the afternoon..

Who’s playing in the ATP Finals and how the year is going

In the Race ATP classification, which does not overlap well with the historic classification of the Association of Tennis Professionals, the top eight players of 2023 are players competing in the ATP Finals. The results for each this season are as follows:

Novak Djokovic (1). Serbian player came to Turin after playing They lost only 5 of 56 matches, of which they won 51, and won six championships.. He started the year by winning the ATP 250 in Adelaide and also the Australian Open, his first Grand Slam. He suffered his first defeat in Dubai (ATP 500), losing to Daniil Medvedev in the semi-finals. At the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 in April, after returning to action after a month and a half of inactivity, he was eliminated by Lorenzo Musetti in the round of 16, his worst result of the year. He bid farewell to the ATP 250 in Banja Luka in the quarter-finals against Dusan Lajovic, whom Holger Rune beat him at the Masters. 1000 from Rome. Won Roland Garros by beating Carlos Alcaraz in four sets in the semi-finals and Casper Ruud in the final. After beating Andrey Rublev and Jannik Sinner at Wimbledon, he lost to Carlos Alcaraz in the final. He met the Murcian again in August but on this occasion prevailed in the final at the Cincinnati Masters 1000. He also won the US Open, his second major of the year, and won after a spectacular final at the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000. He won three grand slams in total this year; two Masters 1,000 and one ATP 250.