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Fresh from an opening victory, Taylor Fritz braces for Carlos Alcaraz’s firepower on Tuesday, as Lorenzo Musetti draws on home support to counter Alex de Minaur’s speed in a rescheduled round-robin push.
Under the bright lights of Inalpi Arena, Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten transformed a springtime setback into a sharp-edged opener at the Nitto ATP Finals, their serves unyielding as they eye year-end glory amid rising pressure.
The Nitto ATP Finals intensifies Tuesday as Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz pursue perfect starts in the Jimmy Connors Group, their matchup laced with year-end ambitions, while Alex de Minaur and Lorenzo Musetti battle to escape early shadows in the evening.
Sebastian Korda pushed to the edge in Greece before a semifinal slip, but his offseason starts with a personal win that outshines the court’s final verdict.
Fresh from a late arrival and a season of breakthroughs, Lorenzo Musetti faced the Nitto ATP Finals’ glare only to meet Taylor Fritz’s unflinching baseline command, a matchup that turned home hopes into a lesson in composure under pressure.
Amid the Pala Alpitour’s charged air, Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski absorbed a season’s frustrations, saving every break point to outlast Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic in a tense Nitto ATP Finals debut.
Lorenzo Musetti steps into the Nitto ATP Finals with a season’s worth of grit behind him, poised to transform home-soil pressure into triumphant play on indoor hard courts.
Amid a season of scattered major titles and deepening talent, players turned personal pressures into triumphs on shifting surfaces, from Paris clay to Melbourne heat, etching moments that blended raw strategy with unyielding spirit.
Seventeen years after a bone infection threatened to end his dreams at 14, Christian Harrison, now 31, steps into the Nitto ATP Finals with Evan King, where doubles volleys carry the weight of eight surgeries and unbreakable resolve.
The opening day of the 2025 Nitto ATP Finals brought relief and resolve to Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev, whose straight-set triumphs over Alex de Minaur and Ben Shelton banished early ghosts and ignited hopes for a deep run on Turin’s fast indoor courts.
Carlos Alcaraz battled through a wild first set to overpower Alex de Minaur, launching his ATP Finals campaign with a straight-sets win that sharpens his edge in the year-end No. 1 race.
Alexander Zverev, nursing a fresh ankle twinge, confronts Ben Shelton’s raw power under the Nitto ATP Finals lights, clawing back from set-point peril to seize a vital opening win and rekindle his title chase.
