Scouting Report: Jannik Sinner returns and Carlos Alcaraz wants more glory in Rome | ATP Tour

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Scouting Report: Sinner returns and Alcaraz wants more glory in Rome

A summary of what every fan should know about the next tournament

May 05, 2025

The latest ATP Masters 1000 tournament on the beaten land of the season, the internali bnl d’Italia, begins in Rome. The best players in the world continue their preparation for Roland Garros with 1,000 points of the PIF ATP Ranking in play in the Italian capital.

The No. 1 of the world Jannik Sinner returns to action, while Carlos Alcaraz, Madrid Casper Ruud champion and the two -time winner in Rome Alexander Zverev will also try to ensure glory. Atptour.com Review 10 things to see in the tournament

1) Sinner is regular: No. 1 of the PIF ATP Rankings is ready to compete for the first time from the Australia Open after completing a three -month period of inelegability in a case resolution agreement with the AMA. The Italian, who won the first Grand Slam of the season, will try to find his rhythm immediately in a tournament in which he has never gone from the quarterfinals. Only one of its 19 titles in the circuit has been in whipped land (UMAG, 2022). He will face Federico Cina or Mariano Navone in Second Round.

2) Alcaraz returns from an injury: The Spanish had found its best level, rising with its first crown in Montecarlo and then reaching the final at home, in Barcelona, ​​before missing the 1000 Masters in Madrid due to an adductor injury. Alcaraz will try to keep his game in the Italic forum, where he has only competed once before, in 2023. In that edition he fell in third round against Fabian Marozsan. The third standard head will face Yoshihito Nishioka or Jan-Lennard Struff in its premiere.

3) Zverev, title defender: Zverev, seven times ATP Masters 1000 champion, has won two of its seven titles of this level in Rome. Last year, the German only lost a set on his way to the trophy. No. 2 of the PIF ATP Ranking has just won its first season of the season in Munich and will try to add another in the Italic forum, starting with its inaugural match against Camilo Ugo Carabelli or a player of the previous phase.

4) Musetti in motion: One of the revelation stars of the 2025 season has been Lorenzo Musetti. As for the Italians, all eyes have been put in Sinner in the last two years, but Musetti has demonstrated this year that he is also among the best players in the world. The 23 -year -old has first sneaked into the topranking, becoming the sixth Italian who achieves it since the creation of the ranking in 1973. He reached his first Masters 1000 final last month in Montecarlo and will try to improve his best performance in Rome, after having reached the round of 16 in the Italian capital twice.

5) Rude, and racture: Casper Ruud arrives at the internali bnl d’Italia with the usual confidence, after his first triumph in a 1000 Masters in Madrid. The Norwegian has been highlighting in whipped land for a long time, where he has won 12 of his 13 circuit titles and has reached the Roland Garros final twice. It has been three times semifinalist in Rome.

6) drapes a form: One of the players who has improved the most this year has been Jack Draper. The British left -hander was awarded his first 1000 Masters in Indian Wells and reached another final in Madrid, where he took Ruud to three sets in a final at odd. With his efforts, Draper is second in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin, placing himself in an initial position to qualify for the first time for the Nitto ATP Finals. He debuted in Rome last year, falling to former world No. 1 of the world Daniil Medvedev in second round.

7) Medvedev and its place on land in the world: Daniil Medvedev does not hide that the beaten earth is not its favorite surface. However, that did not prevent him from lifting glory in Rome two years ago. It has an 8-4 record in the tournament, according to the Infosys ATP index of victories and defeats, and will try to improve it against Christopher O’Connell or a classified in the second round.

8) Stars #nextGenatp to follow: The #nextGenatp players have left their mark throughout the year, with Jakub Mensik raising the trophy in Miami, Joao Fonseca winning their first ATP Tour title in Buenos Aires and many more. Both will be in action in Rome, like the 19 -year -old Learner Tien and the promising Italian Cina. The 18 -year -old local favorite debuted in the circuit in Miami, where he eliminated Francisco Comesaña before falling before Grigor Dimitrov. Fonseca could face the man he defeated in the Australian Open, Andrey Rublev.

9) Italian guests: Before the end of the classification phase, there are 13 Italians in the main box, including the five Wild Cards of the tournament: Cina, Fabio Fognini, Matteo Gigante, Luca Nardi and Francesco Passaro. Fognini, ex No. 9 of the world, reached the quarterfinals of Rome in 2019 and has played the main box or the previous phase in the Italian capital on 18 occasions. His first appearance was in 2006, almost a year before Cina was born.

10) Bolelli/Vavassori wait at home in doubles: The best Italian double couple is the one formed by Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori. Will you find a way to succeed at home? Last year, when they competed together for the first time in Rome, the Italians reached the semifinals. The defenders of the title are Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, who just won the Mutua Madrid Open.