Alexander Zverev V Felix Auger-aliassime: Atp Finals Tennis – Live

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The occupational hazards of round-robin tennis mean by this shape of nan ATP Finals we’re often near scratching our heads, scrambling astir for a calculator and trying to activity retired nan brain-busting permutations of qualification. But tonight’s lucifer betwixt Alexander Zverev and Felix Auger-Aliassime, mercifully, is easy. It’s a consecutive shootout: nan victor sets up a semi-final against Carlos Alcaraz astatine this season-ending event; nan loser goes location (or, if it’s Auger-Aliassime, possibly he’ll yet caput disconnected connected honeymoon, having been incapable to measurement disconnected nan tennis treadmill for agelong capable aft he sewage joined a mates of months ago).

Zverev is nan favourite for this: nan world No 3 is nan much accomplished player, has been nan champion astatine this tourney doubly earlier and leads their head-to-head 6-3, winning some their erstwhile matches connected an indoor difficult court. But … this is nan aboveground connected which Auger-Aliassime has claimed nan mostly of his titles, he’s riding a precocious aft his compelling comeback against Ben Shelton connected Wednesday (when Zverev was amazingly level in his straight-sets conclusion by Jannik Sinner), and he took retired Zverev successful nan US Open 3rd information successful August. Plus, conditions are faster successful Turin than astatine Flushing Meadows, which useful moreover much successful AA’s favour.

If Zverev holds back, arsenic he did against Sinner, and Auger-Aliassime takes it to nan German pinch his stinging serves and fearhands, it could good beryllium nan 25-year-old Canadian – nan erstwhile prodigy who was erstwhile successful statement up of Alcaraz and Sinner to return complete from nan Big Three – who earns nan dubious honour of facing nan world No 1 tomorrow.

Play begins: astatine astir 8.30pm section time, 7.30pm GMT.

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