The Serbian Novak Djokovic, world number one, will start as the top favorite in the 2023 Masters that will be held starting tomorrow in Turin, Italy, in an event that will bring together the eight best tennis players of the year and that will have in the doubles draw to the Argentines Horacio Zeballos, Andrés Molteni and Máximo González.
Djokovic, owner of the Grand Slam tournament record with 24 trophies and six-time Masters champion, in the editions of 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2022, will be the great attraction at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, the sports hall largest indoor venue in Italy that will host the tournament that closes the season.
The 36-year-old Serbian will compete in the Green Group with the Italian Jannik Sinner (4), the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (6) and the Danish Holger Rune (10) under a round robin format in which they will face each other and the first two will advance to the semifinals.
For his part, in the Red Group there will be the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (2); the Russians Daniil Medvedev (3) and Andrey Rublev (5), and the German Alexander Zverev (8).
The order of play for Sunday determined that Djokovic will face Rune starting at 5 p.m. (Argentina time), while Sinner and Tsitsipas will open the group at 10:30 a.m., both matches televised on the ESPN signal and the Star + platform.
The Red Group will begin playing on Monday with the match that Alcaraz and Zverev from Murcia will host from 10:30 a.m., and then at 5 p.m. the match between the Russians Medvedev and Rublev.
In the doubles table, the Green Group will be made up of Zeballos from Mar del Plata, 11th in the world in the doubles ranking, and the Catalan Granollers (12), the entirely Argentine couple of Molteni from Buenos Aires (13) and “Machi” González from Tandil. (13), and then the Croatian Ivan Dodig with the American Austin Krajicek, the top favorites for the title, and the French Edouard Roger Vasselin with the Mexican Santiago González.
In the Red Group there will be the Dutch Wesley Koolhof and the British Neal Skupski; the Indian Rohan Bopanna and the Australian Matthew Ebden; the American Rajeev Ram and the British Joe Salisbury and the Australians Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler.
The action for the Argentines will begin this Sunday with Molteni and “Machi” González facing the favorites Dodig and Krajicek from 8:30 a.m., while from 2:30 p.m. the Mar del Plata Zeballos and the Catalan Granollers will debut against the Mexican González and the Frenchman Roger Vasselin .
Source: Ambito
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