{"id":248264,"date":"2025-11-06T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248264\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:34:08","slug":"what-happened-when-carlos-alcaraz-played-a-practice-match-against-taylor-fritz-ahead-of-the-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248264\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened when Carlos Alcaraz played a practice match against Taylor Fritz ahead of the ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carlos Alcaraz is already stepping up his preparation ahead of his final singles tournament of the year at the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz suffered a shock defeat to Cameron Norrie<\/a> at the Paris Masters<\/a> last week, in his earliest defeat at any tournament since March.<\/p>\n

Not only did he lose his opening match, but Jannik Sinner also dethroned Alcaraz as world number one<\/a> after going on to win the Paris Masters title.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has a relatively poor record on indoor hard courts<\/a>, and he is already trying to improve that after playing a practice set against Taylor Fritz<\/a> in Turin.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Glenn Gervot\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesCarlos Alcaraz wins practice set against Taylor Fritz before the ATP Finals<\/p>\n

Alcaraz<\/a> and Fritz are two of the seven players who have already confirmed their qualification for the tournament in Turin, despite Novak Djokovic\u2019s ATP Finals participation still being in doubt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having arrived early ahead of the ATP Finals<\/a>, Alcaraz and Fritz have been training with one another and even played a practice match.<\/p>\n

Fritz has struggled to close the gap against Alcaraz<\/a>, and that is proving to be the case even in a practice match that he lost, 6-3 4-2.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz is set to continue training against his fellow competitors in Turin, as he has another scheduled practice session with world number three Alexander Zverev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Zverev is not in Alcaraz\u2019s group, Fritz is alongside Alex de Minaur<\/a> and Djokovic, who has been given an encouraging sign for his ATP Finals participation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz will be hoping to improve his record at the ATP Finals<\/p>\n

Alcaraz\u2019s poor record on indoor hard courts is also represented by his previous appearances at the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n

The world number two has qualified for the ATP Finals three times, but was forced to miss the 2022 tournament due to injury.<\/p>\n

In his two on-court appearances at the ATP Finals, Alcaraz has only won three of his seven matches and has never made it past the semifinals.<\/p>\n

This included last year, where Alcaraz exited at the round-robin stage of the ATP Finals<\/a> after losing to Zverev and Casper Ruud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

YearCarlos Alcaraz\u2019s Win-loss Record at the ATP FinalsCarlos Alcaraz\u2019s Result at the ATP Finals20232-2 (50%)Lost in the semifinals to Novak Djokovic20241-2 (33%)Knocked out a the Round-robin stage (Lost to Casper Ruud & Alexander Zverev)<\/p>\n

What Alcaraz does have in his favour is that he has a winning head-to-head against all the other players except Djokovic<\/a> and Zverev.<\/p>\n

As well as having the goal to improve his record at the ATP Finals, Alcaraz also knows that three wins will secure his return back to world number one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Carlos Alcaraz is already stepping up his preparation ahead of his final singles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1308,30245,870,101,11310,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-248264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-atp-finals","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-sports","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}