{"id":275262,"date":"2025-11-06T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275262\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:09:09","slug":"alcaraz-grouped-with-djokovic-sinner-with-zverev-at-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275262\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz grouped with Djokovic, Sinner with Zverev at ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

TURIN, Italy — Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was drawn in a group with Novak Djokovic<\/a> at the ATP Finals, while defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a> was grouped with Alexander Zverev<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Jimmy Connors group features Alcaraz, Djokovic, Taylor Fritz<\/a> and Alex de Minaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bjorn Borg group has Sinner, Zverev, Ben Shelton<\/a> and Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> or Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, who are battling for the final spot.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime occupies the eighth and final qualifying spot, but Musetti can leapfrog the Canadian if he wins a tournament in Athens this week.<\/p>\n

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The status of Djokovic, who is also playing in Athens, is questionable. Djokovic, a record seven-time ATP Finals champion, sat out the event last year and has said he will decide whether to play after the Athens tournament.<\/p>\n

The finals start Sunday with round-robin play. The top two finishers in each group advance to the semifinals. The final is scheduled for Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz will be playing in the event for the third time; his best result was the semifinals in 2023.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz and Sinner are still fighting for the year-end No. 1 ranking, which will be determined by their performances at the finals.<\/p>\n

Zverev won the ATP Finals in 2018 and 2021 while Fritz lost last year’s final to Sinner.<\/p>\n

De Minaur is making his second consecutive appearance, and Shelton is making his debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TURIN, Italy — Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz was drawn in a group with Novak Djokovic at the ATP Finals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-275262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}