The countdown has begun at the Palapitour in Turin. Sunday starts ATP Finals which sees the best 8 players of the year competing in the prestigious end-of-year tournament. Many stories will intertwine over the eight days of competition: from Sunday 12th to Friday 17th the group matches will then move on to the semi-finals on Saturday, with the coronation on Sunday 19th November. Compared to the last edition, half of the participants have changed. Novak Djokovic, number 1 favorite for Sisal experts given the odds of 2,50, he is looking for victory number 7 in the Finals which would allow him to overtake Roger Federer with whom he holds the record of successes. Furthermore, Nole tries to attempt a back to back that has been missing in the tournament for 8 years when he himself achieved a dream poker.
Behind the Serbian tennis player he places Carlo Alcaraz, number 2 in the world, in search of the tennis that had lifted him to the top of the ATP in the first part of the year. The Spanish tennis player, without victories since Wimbledon, arrives in Turin with the intention of putting an end to this fast. The tennis player from Murcia wants to become the third Spaniard, after Orantes and Corretja, to win the Finals, a feat missed by his idol Rafa Nadal: Alcaraz's triumph is played at 4,00.
Inevitably, however, all the attention and cheering from the Turin public will be for Jannik Sinner (in the picture). The blue arrives at the Finals with 4 tournament wins and fourth position in the world. An amazing season for Sinner who wants to give himself the classic icing on the cake. Jannik is included in the green group with Djokovic, Tsitsipas and Rune: an unfortunate draw, if you look at history, given that the Italian, out of 12 overall matches with his three opponents, has won just 2, both with the tennis player Athens. But the student of Simone Vagnozzi and Darren Cahill is excited and wants to be a protagonist in front of his audience. Sinner's success at the ATP Finals would pay 6 times the stakes.
Daniil Medvedev, winner in 2020, is tied at altitude with the tennis player from San Candido while he is Stefanos Tsitsipas is Alexander Zverev, already triumphant at the Finals, are both given 20 as Andrey rublev. In the queue, but ready to offer surprises, it is there Holger Rune who plays champion at 33.
Sisal always reminds that the game is forbidden to minors and that you must always play with awareness and moderation.
