The competition, which after having played for 12 years at the O2 Arena in London, moved until 2025 to the Pala Alpitour in northern Turin, receives the best rackets of the season.
Djokovic, who is part of the Green Group, appeared before the Norwegian Casper Ruud (8), with a solid performance and a clear victory in the first game in the zone, which was only even in the first set and which was defined after 1 hour and 33 minutes of confrontation.
Serbian Novak Djokovic, owner of three of the four Grand Slam of 2021, is the great favorite of the tournament that brings together the eight best of the year.
Later, by the same group, the Russian Andrey Rublev (5) defeated the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (4) by 6-4 and 6-4, in 1 hour and 32 minutes, in the match that closed the day on Monday in Turin.
While the Mar del Plata Horacio Zeballos, who yesterday in a pair with the Catalan Marcel Granollers debuted with a victory against the Croatian Ivan Dodig and the Slovak Filip Polasek by 4-6 7-6 (12-10) and 10-6, in a match of the Green Group of the Masters doubles tournament, this Tuesday they will play against the number one in the ranking, the Croats Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.
Mektic and Pavic they beat yesterday in the debut to the pair composed by the German Kevin Krawietz and romanian Horia Tecau by 6-4 and 6-4.
In turn, in the same area, tomorrow they will face the double composed of the Croatian Dodig and the Slovak Polasek against the German Krawietz and the Romanian Tecau.
Today, for the Red Group, the binomial made up of the American Rajeev Ram and the British Joe Salisbury beat the duo formed by the Scotsman Jamie Murray and the Brazilian Bruno Soares by 6-1 and 7-6 (7-1), at after 1 hour and 28 minutes of play.
While the pair made up of the French Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolás Mahut later beat the pair made up of the Colombians Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah by 7-6 (7-1) and 6-4, in 1 hour and 33 game minutes.
In the Nitto ATP Finals (Masters) singles tournament tomorrow they will play for the Red Group, the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2) against the German Alexander Zverev (3), who debuted with triumphs the day before.
Medvedev beat Polish Hubert Hurkacz (9) by 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 and 6-4, while Zverev beat Italian Matteo Berrettini (7) by 7-6 (9-7), 1 -0 and withdrawal of the Roman player due to physical discomfort in the left external oblique abdominal, which could leave him out of the tournament.
If Berrettini cannot continue, in the match against the Polish Hurkacz he will be replaced by his compatriot Jannik Sinner (10), in the other match by the Red Group.
The tournament will take place from Sunday to Sunday, with the semifinals scheduled for Saturday the 20th, while the final of the last competition of the year will be on the 21st of this month.
Source From: Ambito
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