A.D today, Thursday 14 October, I tennis players arithmetically four qualify for the ATP Finals: the Serbian Novak Djoković, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the German Alexander Zverev, while only the benefit of mathematics is missing (which should arrive within the end of the month) for the Russian Andrey Rublev and for theblue Matteo Berrettini.

Considering that it Spanish Rafael Nadal, currently eighth (but with Hurkacz ready to overtake tonight) closed his 2021 prematurely, two places remain available, which are likely to come contested by four tennis players: the Norwegian Casper Ruud, the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, the blue Jannik Sinner and the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime.

ATP RACE AS OF OCTOBER 14, 2021

1 Novak Djoković SRB 8370
2 Daniil Medvedev RUS 6470
3 Stefano Tsitsipas GRE 5650
4 Alexander Zverev GER 5095
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5 Andrey Rublev RUS 4165
6 Matteo Berrettini ITA 4000
7 Casper Ruud NOR1 3015
8 Rafael Nadal ESP1 2985
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9 Hubert Hurkacz POL 2955
10 Jannik Sinner ITA 2595
11 Félix Coclea-Aliassime CAN1 2330

In the Race, on the eve of the quarter finals of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, a review that will tell a lot in this race, together with the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Paris-Bercy, you see Ruud (remove) in front with 3015 points, 60 in more than Hurkacz (to the quarters), 420 of margin on Sinner (remove) And 685 of advantage on Auger-Aliassime (remove).

In addition to the two tournaments already mentioned, they are missing from the call the ATP 500 tournament in Vienna at the end of October And four ATP 250 tournaments, namely Antwerp, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Stockholm. There are still many points on the plate that can change the situation from now to November 13: will there be two Azzurri in Turin?

ATP CALENDAR UNTIL END 2021

until October 17th ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells
18-24 October ATP 250 Antwerp
18-24 October ATP 250 Moscow
25-31 October ATP 500 Vienna
25-31 October ATP 250 St. Petersburg
01-07 November ATP Masters 1000 Paris-Bercy
07-13 November ATP 250 Stockholm
09-13 November Next Gen ATP Finals (in Milan)
November 14-21 ATP Finals (in Turin)
25 November-05 December Davis Cup Finals

At the moment Jannik Sinner would go to Turin as a reserve: blue will need excellent results ad Antwerp, Vienna and Paris-Bercy to be among the best eight of the calendar year 2021. Then a crossroads could appear: going to Milan to play the Next Gen ATP Finals or aiming for the ATP 250 in Stockholm to qualify for the ATP Finals?

To solve the busillis it could be the Serbian Novak Djoković: on his participation in the ATP Finals there are still doubts, and a lot could weigh the race to number 1 ATP at the end of the year. If the Serbian on the eve of the finals should already have the mathematical certainty of ending 2021 in the lead, could jump the appointment in Turin.

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