ATP Finals 2021: tight head-to-heads - and a premiere
Novak Djokovic is the favorite in the ATP Finals 2021 in Turin. If you look at the balance sheets of the other players among themselves, a close race is emerging.
by tennisnet.com
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Nov 12, 2021, 02:42 pm
Daniil Medvedev put it in a nutshell at his press conference at the Media Day before the start of the ATP Finals: Matches against the other great players naturally only arise if the top seeded at the tournaments go far. Medvedev only played twice against Alexander Zverev in 2021 (at the ATP Cup and Paris-Bercy), against Matteo Berrettini only once (at the ATP Cup).
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Which, by the way, is also a testament to the greatness of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal: The two legends have faced each other on 58 occasions on the ATP tour - and in most cases in the semifinals or the final.
Zverev with a good record against his group opponents
If you look at the matchups in the group phase of the ATP Finals, eight games are already the highest of emotions in Group A: Novak Djokovic has six wins against Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Greek won twice from the court. Tsitsipas against Rublev, that too has already been on the tour seven times (Stefanos leads 4: 3). Amazing, however: In Group A, Andrey Rublev will meet Novak Djokovic for the very first time in the course of the Turin days. He has nothing to lose, said Rublev on Friday. And that it was time to finally meet.
Alexander Zverev may have been drawn into the somewhat more difficult group - due to the allegedly fast hall floor in Turin. If it goes according to the individual balance sheets, the German number one can confidently go into the end of the season. Against Daniil Medvedev it is 5: 5, against both Matteo Berrettini and Hubert Hurkacz Zverev is ahead.
This is what the head-to-head balances of the Turin participants look like:
| Group A | Djokovic | Tsitsipas | Rublev | Ruud |
| Djokovic | x | 6: 2 | 0-0 | 1-0 |
| Tsitsipas | 2: 6 | x | 4: 3 | 1: 1 |
| Rublev | 0-0 | 3: 4 | x | 4-0 |
| Ruud | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | 0: 4 | x |
| Group B | Medvedev | Zverev | Berrettini | Hurkacz |
| Medvedev | x | 5: 5 | 2-0 | 1: 1 |
| Zverev | 5: 5 | x | 3: 1 | 1-0 |
| Berrettini | 0: 2 | 1: 3 | x | 1: 1 |
| Hurkacz | 1: 1 | 0: 1 | 1: 1 | x |
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