Carlos Alcaraz has candidly expressed his feelings on facing Lorenzo Musetti instead of Novak Djokovic at the 2025 ATP Finals after the latter pulled out of the event.<\/p>\n
The world No 1 was drawn with Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur in the Jimmy Connors Group at this year\u2019s ATP Finals in Turin.<\/p>\n
Djokovic announced he would not compete at the ATP Finals due to a shoulder injury after he defeated Musetti in a pulsating final at the ATP 250 event in Athens the day before the season-ending championships was due to begin.<\/p>\n
A showdown between Alcaraz<\/a> and Djokovic would arguably have been the pick of the round robin matches, but the Spaniard will instead play Musetti, who took the Serbian\u2019s place in the group.<\/p>\n Alcaraz began his campaign in Turin with a 7-6(6), 6-2 victory over seventh-ranked de Minaur, and he will face Fritz in his second match before concluding his round robin campaign against Musetti.<\/p>\n The six-time major champion is chasing a maiden ATP Finals crown, while he can also clinch the ATP year-end No 1 ranking ahead of Jannik Sinner by winning three matches in Turin.<\/p>\n After beating de Minaur, Alcaraz was asked about the difference between having Djokovic and Musetti in his group in Turin.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, obviously someone like Novak being in the group is always tough,\u201d said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n What Lorenzo Musetti said about Novak Djokovic\u2019s last-minute ATP Finals withdrawal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic season review: How will star reflect on his 2025 campaign?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe experience he has in this tournament, the level he has on indoor court, it\u2019s quite good. I lost to him in 2023, and I played great. He killed me (smiling).<\/p>\n \u201cTo be honest, I prefer Lorenzo. I\u2019m not going to lie (laughs). If he\u2019s there, he deserves it because of the level he has put on the matches, the tournaments he has done this year, and the level he showed this year. It was really, really high.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s see how he\u2019s going to be, how he\u2019s going to adapt. He\u2019s coming from Athens, and he couldn\u2019t feel the court at all. But I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to do great and let\u2019s see how it\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n Musetti, the world No 9, fell 3-6, 4-6 to sixth-ranked Fritz on his ATP Finals debut on Monday.<\/p>\n Alcaraz, who holds a 4-5 record against Djokovic, referenced his loss to the 24-time Grand Slam champion at the 2023 ATP Finals.<\/p>\n In that match, Djokovic delivered an outstanding display to dismantle Alcaraz 6-3, 6-2 in the semi-finals in Turin.<\/p>\n The Serbian went on to claim a record seventh ATP Finals crown that year as he saw off Sinner 6-3, 6-3 in the final.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Carlos Alcaraz makes \u2018kinda weird\u2019 confession as he responds to Andy Roddick\u2019s \u2018darkness\u2019 claim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post What did Carlos Alcaraz say about impact of Novak Djokovic\u2019s controversial ATP Finals decision?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz has candidly expressed his feelings on facing Lorenzo Musetti instead of Novak Djokovic at the 2025 ATP Finals after the latter pulled out of the event. The world No 1 was drawn with Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur in the Jimmy Connors Group at this year\u2019s ATP Finals in Turin. Djokovic […]<\/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-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What Carlos Alcaraz said about Novak Djokovic\u2019s ATP Finals withdrawal<\/h2>\n
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