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Who will accompany Sinner, Alcaraz, Zverev and Medvedev in Turin?

Paris will be decisive on the road to the Nitto ATP Finals

October 27, 2024

Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev have qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals. This week’s Rolex Paris Masters will play a decisive role in deciding who will join them.

Taylor Fritz is in pole position to return to the season-ending tournament, which will be played Nov. 10-17. In 2022, in his debut, the American reached the semifinals in Turin.

Fritz, ranked fifth, has 4,290 points and can guarantee his place in Turin if he reaches the quarterfinals in the last ATP Masters 1000 event of the season. There are also other scenarios where he would qualify earlier based on the performance of players below him in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin.

PIF ATP Live Race To Turin (before Paris)

Novak Djokovic, ranked sixth, will not compete in Paris. As the Serbian is 380 points behind the American, Fritz is guaranteed to finish the regular season ahead of him in the Live Race.

Only 290 points separate seventh-placed Casper Ruud (3,845 points) and ninth-placed Álex de Miñaur (3,555 points). Ruud (2) and Rublev (4) have participated in multiple Nitto ATP Finals in the past, while De Minaur is trying to make his tournament debut.

“I’m looking over my shoulder because there are a lot of guys who can do very well here and even next week counts too,” Ruud said. “So there will still be a few more days or weeks of nerves sleeping and thinking about it. But it’s okay.”

“I’m in a position where if I do well it looks like I could qualify, especially if I do well this week. So I’m just going to think about myself, I’m not going to think about things that I can’t control in terms of what other players do. But it’s getting tense. It is becoming a very, very interesting and close race. “A lot can still happen this week.”

Grigor Dimitrov, tenth-placed and 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion, as well as Tommy Paul, eleventh-placed, and Stefanos Tsitsipas, twelfth-placed and winner of the season-ending event in 2019, need to go far in Paris to keep their ATP dreams alive. qualify.

Three possible Rolex Paris Masters third round matches are Fritz against De Miñaur, Ruud against Paul and Rublev against Tsitsipas. Each would be instrumental not only in the tournament, but also in the live race.

The Belgrade Open and Moselle Open, two ATP 250 events taking place the week after Paris, also count towards the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin.