{"id":505165,"date":"2026-03-31T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:34:08","slug":"jannik-sinner-nears-parity-with-carlos-alcaraz-in-race-to-turin-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505165\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner nears parity with Carlos Alcaraz in Race To Turin | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        PIF ATP Live Race To Turin<br \/>\n    Sinner moves within 50 points of Alcaraz in Live Race after Miami title<\/p>\n<p>Fils, Lehecka make big moves following South Florida ATP Masters 1000<\/p>\n<p>March 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sinner-miami-2026-live-race-update.jpg\" alt=\"Jannik Sinner is the two-time defending champion at the Nitto ATP Finals.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Jannik Sinner is the two-time defending champion at the Nitto ATP Finals.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Three months into the 2026 season and just 50 points separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/carlos-alcaraz\/a0e2\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jannik-sinner\/s0ag\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlcaraz began the year with title runs at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> and at the ATP 500 in Doha, building a 16-match winning streak that ended in the Indian Wells semi-finals. Sinner has since caught momentum, triumphing in Indian Wells and Miami to complete the &#8216;Sunshine Double&#8217;, hauling himself close to parity with his great rival in the Live Race.<\/p>\n<p>It is still early in the season, but Alcaraz and Sinner are once again in control of the battle for ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF, for which the Live Race is a good barometer. No other player is within 1,000 points of the pair, with third-placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniil-medvedev\/mm58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> currently 1,200 points behind Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>While Alcaraz and Sinner spearhead the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/arthur-fils\/f0f1\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Fils<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jiri-lehecka\/l0bv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jiri Lehecka<\/a> earned career milestones in Miami to continue their pursuit of a maiden qualification for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PIF ATP Live Race To Turin (after Miami)<\/p>\n<p>Fils, 21, reached his biggest ATP Tour semi-final in south Florida, helping him rise to eighth in the Live Race. The Frenchman was also a finalist in Doha and a quarter-finalist in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n<p>\nLehecka has surged 54 places to 10th following his first ATP Masters 1000 final appearance. The Czech arrived in Miami with a modest 6-5 season record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, yet found his best form at the hard-court event, where he went unbroken until the championship match against Sinner. Lehecka was a quarter-finalist at the ATP 500 events in Doha and Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-zverev\/z355\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a>, a semi-finalist in both Indian Wells and Miami, leapfrogged 101-time tour-level titlist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> for fourth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alex-de-minaur\/dh58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex de Minaur<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/ben-shelton\/s0s1\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shelton<\/a>, both former competitors in Turin, are also currently in the top eight.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> will be held from 15-22 November at Inalpi Arena in Turin. The home favourite Sinner has won the season finale for two consecutive years. Last season, he beat Alcaraz in the final to improve to 6-10 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head rivalry with the Spaniard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PIF ATP Live Race To Turin Sinner moves within 50 points of Alcaraz in Live Race after Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-505165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505165","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=505165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}