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Winner to face Carlos Alcaraz in Turin semi-finals
The occupational hazards of round-robin tennis mean by this stage of the ATP Finals we’re often left scratching our heads, scrambling about for a calculator and trying to work out the brain-busting permutations of qualification. But tonight’s match between Alexander Zverev and Felix Auger-Aliassime, mercifully, is easy. It’s a straight shootout: the winner sets up a semi-final against Carlos Alcaraz at this season-ending event; the loser goes home (or, if it’s Auger-Aliassime, perhaps he’ll finally head off on honeymoon, having been unable to step off the tennis treadmill for long enough after he got married a couple of months ago).
Zverev is the favourite for this: the world No 3 is the more accomplished player, has been the champion at this tournament twice before and leads their head-to-head 6-3, winning both their previous matches on an indoor hard court. But … this is the surface on which Auger-Aliassime has claimed the majority of his titles, he’s riding a high after his compelling comeback against Ben Shelton on Wednesday (when Zverev was surprisingly flat in his straight-sets defeat by Jannik Sinner), and he took out Zverev in the US Open third round in August. Plus, conditions are faster in Turin than at Flushing Meadows, which works even more in AA’s favour.
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