PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin
Who will be part of Sinner, Alcaraz, Zverev & Medvedev in Turin?
ATPTour.com seems at PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin coming into Paris
October 27, 2024
Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Taylor Fritz is fifth within the PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin.
By ATP Workers
Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev have certified for the Nitto ATP Finals. This week’s Rolex Paris Masters will play a important position in deciding who will be part of them.
Taylor Fritz is in pole place to return to the season finale, to be performed from 10-17 November, for the second time. In 2022, the American reached the semi-finals in Turin.
The fifth-placed Fritz has 4,290 factors and might assure his place on the year-end championships by making the quarter-finals on the season’s remaining ATP Masters 1000 occasion. There are additionally different eventualities during which he would qualify earlier within the event primarily based on the efficiency of gamers under him within the PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin.
PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin (coming into Paris)
Sixth-placed Novak Djokovic isn’t competing in Paris. Because the Serbian is 380 factors behind the American, Fritz is assured to complete the common season forward of him within the Reside Race.
Solely 290 factors separate seventh-placed Casper Ruud (3,845 factors) and ninth-placed Alex de Minaur (3,555 factors). Ruud (2) and Rublev (4) have made a number of Nitto ATP Finals appearances previously, whereas De Minaur is making an attempt to make his event debut.
“I am trying over my shoulder as a result of there are numerous guys that may do very well right here and even subsequent week additionally counts,” Ruud mentioned. “So there’ll nonetheless be just a few extra days or even weeks of form of nervous sleeping and desirous about it. However it’s okay.
“I am within the place the place if I do properly it seems like I’d be capable of qualify, particularly if I do properly this week. So I am simply going to consider myself, not going to consider issues I can not management when it comes to what different gamers do. However it’s getting tense. It is changing into a very, actually attention-grabbing Race and an in depth Race. Plenty of issues can nonetheless occur this week.”
Tenth-placed Grigor Dimitrov, the 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion, Eleventh-placed Tommy Paul and Twelfth-placed Stefanos Tsitsipas, the 2019 season finale winner, want deep runs in Paris to maintain alive their goals of qualifying.
Three potential Rolex Paris Masters third-round matches are Fritz going through De Minaur, Ruud taking over Paul and Rublev taking part in Tsitsipas. Every could be important in not solely the event, but in addition the Reside Race.
The Belgrade Open and the Moselle Open, two ATP 250 occasions the week after Paris, additionally rely in the direction of the PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin and qualification for the Nitto ATP Finals.
