Alcaraz-Zverev is a match valid for the group phase of the 2023 ATP Finals: timetable, news, predictions, live TV and streaming.
He had to wait a year to play them. Due to a bad abdominal injury Carlos Alcaraz, despite finishing in the top eight of the Race, was forced to skip the 2022 edition of the Atp Finals, showing up in Turin only in plain clothes to receive the prize that accrues to those who finish the season at the top of the Atp ranking.
This time in the Piedmontese capital, however, he will also wear a T-shirt and shorts. And he is one of the most expected along with the favorite Djokovic – the Serb after yesterday’s victory over Dane Rune has secured the first place in the ranking, unreachable even in case of a victory of the Spaniard – and the host Sinner, drawn in the other group, the green one. In the red, along with the Murcia native, are the two Russians Medvedev and Rublev and Germany’s Alexander Zverev. The latter will be the Wimbledon 2023 champion’s first opponent. This will be the seventh confrontation between the two, who faced each other only a few months ago at the US Open. In New York it was a match without history, with Zverev surrendering in three sets exhausted by the marathon two days earlier against Sinner. Alcaraz had also come out on top in 2022 in Madrid, and even then the Hamburg player was low on energy from playing late into the night the previous day.
Parity in the head-to-head
Perfect parity, at any rate, in the head-to-heads: three wins for Alcaraz and three for Zverev. The German has not won since the memorable quarterfinal at Roland Garros 2022, a few days before the semifinal with Nadal, the one in which he seriously injured his ankle.
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Zverev has already won the Finals, winning the 2021 edition – the first one held in Turin – beating Medvedev in the final. His 2023 has been on the rise – he took home two titles, Hamburg and Chengdu – but he is still not at pre-injury levels. Alcaraz’s last triumph, on the other hand, was just at the London Championships. Two weeks ago, in Paris-Bercy, also came a resounding and unexpected elimination in the first round against Safiullin.
