There are those who have their sights set on the eleventh pearl in Melbourne to enrich their collection. And those who, on the contrary, dream of the first career Slam to complete their growth path. The Australian Open, scheduled from next Sunday, open, like every year, the season of tennis and there are so many expectations. The man to beat, needless to say, remains Novak Djokovic (in the photo) who, at the age of 37, still remains the main favorite. The Sisal experts they see Djoker's eleventh triumph, on the fast one in Melbourne, at 2,00. The world number one has not lost in Australia since 2018 when he was defeated by South Korean Chung in the fourth round while, in 2022, he was denied a visa to participate in the tournament.
Djokovic's first opponent is Carlitos Alcaraz, number 2 in the ATP ranking, who, after successes at the US Open (2022) and Wimbledon (2023), is looking for the third Slam of his career. The Spanish tennis player, after a second part of 2023 that was not free from difficulties, is ready to start again to chase not only the most prestigious tournaments on the circuit but also that first position still today the prerogative of the Belgrade phenomenon. Alcaraz, in Melbourne, never got beyond the third round, two years ago, and wants to dispel the taboo linked to the Australian Open so much so that his success is at stake at 3,50.
The podium of favorites is completed by Jannik Sinner. The blue, after being the protagonist in Italy's victory in the Davis Cup, dreams of his first Slam and, in Australia, the chances of success are very high. The Sisal experts they see the triumph of the tennis player from San Candido at 6,00: Sinner would become the third Italian, after Pietrangeli and Panatta, to win a Grand Slam event. The best result of the current world number 4 is the quarter-finals of 2022 when he was eliminated by Tsitsipas. The Greek, also last year but in the round of XNUMX, was Sinner's executioner.
Solo Daniil Medvedev, defeated twice in the final by Djokovic, offered at 7,50, remains in the wake of the three big favourites. The rest of the group starts in double figures: Holger Rune to 16, Stefanos Tstsipas at 20 while the triumph of Alexander Zverev would pay 25 times the post.
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