The 2025 ATP Finals draw is done and dusted with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner headlining the two groups, but there are still several question marks on the eve of the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s lucrative season-ending event will be staged from November 9 to 16 at the Inalpi Arena in Turin and Alcaraz<\/a> is the top seed and sits at No 1 in Group Jimmy Connors while second seed Sinner takes top spot in Group Bjorn Borg, with the seedings based on the November 10 ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n Six-time Grand Slam winner Alcaraz has been handed a tough task as he has been paired with seven-time ATP Finals champion Novak Djokovic<\/a>, with American No 1 Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur also in the group.<\/p>\n Defending champion Sinner will face third seed Alexander Zverev and they will be joined by Ben Shelton, and \u2014 as things stand \u2014 Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n The full schedule and order of play are yet to be confirmed, but the first singles match is set to start at 14:00 local time on Sunday with the second match scheduled to get underway at 20:30.<\/p>\n 24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic went into Thursday\u2019s draw as the fourth seed, but he is yet to confirm if he will actually play as he told the media earlier this week that \u201cI will decide at the end of this tournament\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n But here is the tricky part, if Djokovic reaches the final at the ongoing Hellenic Championship, then he will play on Saturday November 8 before dashing off to Turin for the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n Of course, that is not such a big deal in modern tennis as the players use private jets and both tournaments are in Europe.<\/p>\n There is also the small matter of Lorenzo Musetti still being in with a chance of qualifying<\/a> for the season-ending tournament, which could add another twist.<\/p>\n Should Novak Djokovic play the 2025 ATP Finals? Here\u2019s our verdict<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner: Who is in pole position to seal year-end No 1 ranking?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The Italian is currently ninth in the Race To Turin with Auger-Aliassime occupying the eighth and final spot, but if Musetti wins the Hellenic Championship then he will replace the Canadian in the draw and will go into Group Bjorn Borg.<\/p>\n Now, to add further confusion, should Djokovic decide not to play in Turin, both Auger-Aliassime and Musetti will then play at the year-end tournament.<\/p>\n If Musetti wins the Hellenic Championship title, he will get an automatic entry and will thus go into Group Bjorn Borg while Auger-Aliassime will be the alternate for Djokovic and take the Serb\u2019s place in Group Jimmy Connors.<\/p>\n If, however, Musetti fails to overtake Auger-Aliassime in the rankings, then he will be the alternate to replace Djokovic with the Canadian remaining in Sinner\u2019s group.<\/p>\n The post ATP Finals draw chaos: Novak Djokovic\u2019s decision and Lorenzo Musetti\u2019s late push cause uncertainty<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2025 ATP Finals draw is done and dusted with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner headlining the two groups, but there are still several question marks on the eve of the start of the tournament. This year\u2019s lucrative season-ending event will be staged from November 9 to 16 at the Inalpi Arena in Turin and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why The Confusion?<\/h2>\n
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