{"id":7596,"date":"2023-11-09T12:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/atp-finals-reigning-champion-novak-djokovic-drawn-to-face-home-favourite-jannik-sinner-in-turin-showpiece-tennis-news\/09\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:52:06","slug":"atp-finals-reigning-champion-novak-djokovic-drawn-to-face-home-favourite-jannik-sinner-in-turin-showpiece-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/atp-finals-reigning-champion-novak-djokovic-drawn-to-face-home-favourite-jannik-sinner-in-turin-showpiece-tennis-news\/09\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Finals: Reigning champion Novak Djokovic drawn to face home favourite Jannik Sinner in Turin showpiece | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic has been placed in a group with home favourite Jannik Sinner for the ATP Finals in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the season-ending, eight-player finals was made Thursday and saw Djokovic pitted against Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune in the Green Group for the round-robin stage.<\/p>\n<p>Second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz headlines the Red Group, which also includes Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-factbox\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text-wrapper\">\n<p><h4 class=\"sdc-article-factbox__title\">ATP Finals singles draw<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\"><b>Green Group:<\/b> Novak Djokovic (1), Jannik Sinner (4), Stefanos Tsitsipas (6), Holger Rune (8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\"><b>Red Group:<\/b> Carlos Alcaraz (2), Daniil Medvedev (3), Andrey Rublev (5), Alexander Zverev (7).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The top two from each group advance to the semi-finals. Djokovic needs to win just one match to end the year as the world No 1 men&#8217;s singles player.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-time Grand Slam winner is bidding to win the event for a seventh time and has not lost a match since his defeat to Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final in July.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic currently shares the record of six victories with Roger Federer. Zverev has won the tournament twice, while Medvedev and Tsitsipas have one victory apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament starts on Sunday and the final is scheduled for November 19.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/tennis\/news\/12040\/13004202\/atp-finals-reigning-champion-novak-djokovic-drawn-to-face-home-favourite-jannik-sinner-in-turin-showpiece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic has been placed in a group with home favourite Jannik Sinner for the ATP Finals in Turin. The<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/atp-finals-reigning-champion-novak-djokovic-drawn-to-face-home-favourite-jannik-sinner-in-turin-showpiece-tennis-news\/09\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[811,414,871,2212,1297,2883,46,1154,1244,33,865,2811,2285,1245,538,2884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}