Without Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Men’s Tennis Looks for New Faces

In mid-September, only two weeks after Jannik Sinner won the US Open. To ensure a 2-2 record loss victories with Carlos Alcaraz in the main championships in 2024, Alcaraz was asked if he imagined his federal rivalry and responded carefully.

“Well, many people talk about that,” Alcaraz said during the Laver Cup in Berlin. “I like listening to it, I am not going to lie. I hope our rivalry is or almost like the 3 greats had a duration of their career. This is the first year we shared all the Grand Slams. With luck, sharing great, combining how, lighting going going away going going going to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to Go to go to go to go to go go to go and go to go and go and go to go to go to go go to go go to go go to go go to go to go and go Tournament

SINNER, the world number 1 and the third Ranked Alcaraz have played three times this year in Indian wells, in the semifinals of the France Open and in the Beijing final in September with Alcaraz winning the three games. They could meet again at the ATP finals, which begin Sunday in Turin, Italy. The two have not yet faced at the ATP finals.

Sinner and Alcaraz will join in Turin by Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz, Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur and Andrey Rublev.

Zverev, runner -up of Alcaraz at this year’s France Open, is twice champion of the ATP finals, in 2018 and 2021. Medvedev, who reached the final of the Australian Open in January before falling against Sinner, won the ATP finals in 2020 and was a finalist to Zverev in 2021.

This is the first time in 23 years that Neith Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal will compete in the eight -year -old men’s championships. Federer, who won the championships six times from 2003 to 2011, retired in 2022 and Nadal, who retires after representing Spain at the Davis Cup finals in Malaga at the end of this month, did not play enough tournaments this year to qualify.

Djokovic, who was disputed by the finals with a second place for Sinner at the Shanghai Open last month, does not have to play either. After recently retiring from the Masters in Paris, Djokovic published a photo of himself on vacation in the Maldives.

After having captured seven titles in 2023, including his tenth Open of Australia, the France Open and the United States Open for its Major, Djokovic fell a game of The Grand Slam which lost Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final: he has done he has played.

The seven -time winner of the ATP finals, Djokovic, 37, won last year on Sinner and Tok the title in 2022 about Casper Ruud. But Djokovic has played only seven games from the United States Open in September, and is not scheduled to play again this year. He has said he plans to go to Malaga to witness Nadal’s departure.

This is the first year in more than two decades than any of the so -called 3 won Wimbledon or the Australian, French or American opens, and the tennis universe finally accepts the transition. Even Andy Murray retired earlier this season.

“I feel that we have discussed this for some years, answering the question of what happened with Big 3,” said Stefanos Tsitsipas, who won the ATP finals in 2019, but fell just outside the classification field this year, in September. “These things continue to change all the time. At this time they are Carlos and Jannik who are the greatest amount of damage and win the greatest number of titles. Therefore, it depends on us to try to obtain some titles too.”

This year, Sinner won the Australian and the United States, while Alcaraz captured the open of France and Wimbledon. Sinner beat Djokovic in the semifinals at the Australian Open, and Alcaraz defeated him in the Wimbledon final. Djokovic beat Alcaraz to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games, a title that said he coveted more than any other.

Medvedev knows that no tournament, and no tour depends totally on his past stars, even if they are among the best in history.

“They will still be the eight players who obtained the most points of the season, so it will continue to be eight incredible strong players,” said Medvedev, the champion of the United States Open 2021, in September. “It is our only tournament in which the first game you play is against a player of the 10 best, so I think the feeling will be the same and let the best win.”

Sinner and Alcaraz can be main attractions in Turin, but Sinner, after beating Djokovic in Shanghai, was forced to retire from Paris teachers due to a virus. Alcaraz, who beat Medvedev and Sinner to win the Beijing Open last month, was upset by Tomas Machac in 33rd place in the quarterfinals of Shanghai and then Ugo Humbert in the 16 round in the Masters of Paris.

Fritz, who reached the final of the United States Open before falling against Sinner, appears in the ATP finals for the second time in three years. In 2022, he beat Nadal and went to the semifinals where he lost to Djokovic.

“I want to enter every year since 2022, it has been my goal to be in the top eight and qualify for the ATP finals,” said Fritz in an interview in September. “I am one who plays better when I play better players. It’s good for me because I can get directly in it. I love playing the best and game better tennis when I am in those situations.”

While Sinner, Alcaraz, Zverev, Medvedev and Fritz were early qualifiers for the finals, the last places were at stake until the end. In Paris Masters, Alcaraz, Fritz, Ruud and Rublev lost early. With the withdrawal of Sinner, there was a fight for the coveted points granted in the event.

Ruud, who occupies the number 2 in the world in 2022, the same year he reached the finals in French and the USA. He won tournaments in Geneva and Barcelona, ​​was runner -up in Monte Carlo and was Zverev’s semifinalist at the France Open. Recognize that the hard courts covered are not necessarily their strong.

“Inside it does not have the historical leg where I have produced my best results,” said Ruud, Djokovic runner -up in Turin in 2022. “But I have reached the finals and the semifinals here, so I have somehow saved the best for the last.”

In the end, the ATP finals can reach Sinner and Alcaraz, the two who have produced more this year. As there was with Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, there is mutual respect between them.

“It pushes me to be better,” Sinner told ATP Media last month. “I wake up in the morning trying to understand the ways in which it expires.”

“We are different,” Sinner added. “He is the one who brings the power of fire, the hotitshots, involves the crowd,” and added that it is like “fire and ice.”

As for Alcaraz, enjoy the competition with Sinner.

“Let’s see what it will be like in the future,” Alcaraz said. “I hope to have it here on the tour for a long time because it pushes me to be a better player every day. It pushes me to practice 100 percent just to try to try in the next matches. So it is a rival home that has a lot of Caat to have Caat