Key occasions
We’ve already had a repeat of this yr’s Wimbledon males’s doubles last immediately – and the end result was the identical too, with Britain’s Henry Patten and his Finnish companion Harri Heliovaara defeating Australia’s Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson 7-6 (3), 7-5.
Patten and Heliovaara are by way of to the semi-finals with a match to spare, as a result of Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic have simply crushed Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, saving a match level within the second set earlier than profitable a match tie-break 10-8, with the late drama warming the gang up properly for Sinner v Fritz.
Whereas we’re ready: listed below are the highlights from their US Open last.
Preamble
Buonasera! And welcome to our protection of the ATP Finals group match between Jannik Sinner and Taylor Fritz, which wraps up the motion on day three after a reworked Daniil Medvedev defeated Alex de Minaur earlier. Sinner and Fritz each opened with straight-sets victories on Sunday – Sinner in opposition to De Minaur and Fritz in opposition to a self-combusting Medvedev – so the winner tonight will take pole place within the Ilie Nastase group, with yet another set of round-robin matches to come back.
What marks this night’s contest out is that it’s a repeat of September’s US Open last. Sinner surged previous the American 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 in New York regardless of having many of the 23,000 spectators in opposition to him; this time the Italian could have the very best a part of 15,000 followers in Turin on his facet – not that the world No 1 and winner of seven titles this season wants any additional assist. He’s very a lot the main man on the first ATP Finals in 23 years to not function Federer, Nadal or Djokovic, and he’s the sturdy favorite to win the season-ending occasion for the primary time, particularly with an ailing Carlos Alcaraz reportedly ending his follow session after solely 10 minutes earlier due to sickness.
There’s discuss in Turin about whether or not the Spaniard will have the ability to face Andrey Rublev in his second match tomorrow – even when he does play, the most certainly challenger to Sinner for the title is now Alex Zverev, for my cash – however first issues first, we’ve obtained Sinner v Fritz to deal with tonight. The gamers are because of get going at about 8.30pm native time/7.30pm GMT. And do ship me an e mail with any predictions or predilections; it’s good to have you ever for firm.
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