Last minute of Alcaraz – Ruud, live
Good afternoon and welcome to the ATP Finals! we are going to Turinwhere Carlos Alcaraz begins his journey in the Masters Cup today after Jannik Sinner and the Ilie Natase Group kicked things off yesterday. The man from Murcia and Casper Ruud open the day of the John Newcombe Group today at 2:00 p.m.in the afternoon the other singles match will take place between Alexander Zverev and Andrey Rublev.
The Murcian, who has been training since last Wednesday, November 6 at the Inalpi Arena headquarters in Turin, will meet Ruud for the first time this season. He Norwegian will participate in his third ATP Finalsafter playing them in 2021 (semifinals) and 2022 (final). Seventh on the lists, he has four consecutive defeatsafter losing in the Stockholm quarterfinals and in their debuts in Basel, Paris-Bercy and Metz.
For its part, Carlos Alcaraz faces his second consecutive ATP Finalsin its premiere in 2023 reached the semifinals, “motivated and eager to play good tennis”he assured in an interview with MARCA. Compared to the last edition, the one in El Palmar, the youngest of the eight best racketsarrives according to him “quite well. I already said last year that I wanted to be better in this part of the season, to be better physically and especially mentally, to arrive fresher at this point. “I'm not going to say that I'm completely fresh, but I'm more than last year.”
Alcaraz has just lost in the round of 16 of Paris-Bercy against the Frenchman Humbert, where the very fast track and the local crowd played against the Murcian. Several tennis players, including Sinner and Alcaraz, assure that The Turin court is slower, something that the world number three believes suits his tennis better.
At its premiere, Alcaraz arrives with the advantage of having the face to face against Ruud undefeated, 4-0 and with three of those matches on hard courts in the 2022 Miami and US Open finals, and the 2023 Beijing quarterfinals.
