Alcaraz – Ruud, live

The last minute of Alcaraz – Ruud, live

Good afternoon and welcome to the ATP Finals! we’re going TurinWhere Carlos Alcaraz begins his journey in the Masters Cup today after Jannik Sinner and Ilie Natase’s group started work yesterday. Murcia Man and Casper Ruud open John Newcombe’s band day today at 2pm.there will be another singles match in the afternoon 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 face Ruud for the first time this season. He The Norwegian will compete in his third ATP finalafter playing them in 2021 (semi-final) and 2022 (final). Seventh on the list, he has four defeats in a row.after a quarter-final defeat in Stockholm and debuts in Basel, Paris-Bercy and Metz.

For my part, Carlos Alcaraz reaches the ATP final for the second time in a rowin its premiere in 2023, reaching the semi-finals, “motivated and ready to play good tennis”– he assured in an interview with MARCA. Compared to the last edition, in El Palmar, youngest of the top eight racketsAccording to him, it arrives “quite well. Last year I already said that I want to get better in this part of the season, to get better physically and especially mentally, to come to this point fresher. “I won’t say I’m completely fresh, but I’m more than last year.”

Alcaraz had just lost in the 1/8 finals of the Paris-Bercy tournament to the Frenchman Humbert, where the track was very fast and the local crowd played against the Murcian. Several tennis players, including Sinner and Alcaraz, claim that The court in Turin is slower, and according to the world number three, it suits his tennis better.

At its premiere Alcaraz arrives with the advantage of going head-to-head with the undefeated Ruud, 4-0. and three of those matches on hard courts in the Miami and 2022 US Open finals and the Beijing 2023 quarterfinals.