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All roads successful Turin look to beryllium starring to a Carlos Alcaraz v Jannik Sinner last and nan latest section successful what’s already becoming 1 of tennis’s top rivalries, conscionable arsenic each roads astatine each arena they’ve some entered this twelvemonth person led to different title for nan Sincaraz collection.
The numbers that sum up their supremacy are ubiquitous: they’ve faced each different successful nan past 3 expansive slam finals (the flight from Alcaraz successful that French Open last nan prime of nan lot), won a mixed 13 tournaments successful 2025 and shared nan past 8 awesome titles betwixt them. But 1 eye-catching stat has been little told: Alexander Zverev, nan world No 3, is person successful ranking points to nan world No 1000 than he is to Sinner, nan No 2. No 1 tin get adjacent them. The chasing battalion aren’t successful nan aforesaid universe, moreover though they’re playing nan aforesaid sport.
So wherever does this time off Alex De Minaur and Felix Auger-Aliassime today? At slightest Auger-Aliassime knows what it’s for illustration to hit Alcaraz, having done truthful successful 3 of their 7 meetings, though nan past of those wins was successful 2022, erstwhile Alcaraz was still moving connected becoming a smiling assassin. But De Minaur has mislaid to Sinner successful each 12 of their erstwhile matches. The Demon said he’d banished his demons aft defeating Taylor Fritz for his first ever triumph astatine nan ATP Finals connected Thursday, but really tin he not beryllium haunted by his grounds against nan Italian going into their semi-final? Looking astatine nan positives for nan Australian, astatine slightest he’s sewage thing to lose. Sinner, successful beforehand of his location crowd, is expected to triumph pinch easiness – that’s nan unit that being nan defending champion, pinch 29 wins successful a statement connected indoor difficult courts, brings.
Sinner and De Minaur are first up astatine 2.30pm section time/1.30pm GMT, pinch Alcaraz and Auger-Aliassime to travel astatine 8.30pm/7.30pm. I’ll beryllium present for some matches, truthful let’s dream I’m still opinionated by nan end; barring nan tennis world being knocked disconnected its axis earlier then, Sinner and Alcaraz will beryllium too.
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