Carlos Alcaraz rallies to defeat Taylor Fritz at ATP Finals in Turin

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Spaniard’s triumph moves him to wrong 1 triumph of beating retired Jannik Sinner for yearend fig 1 ranking.

Published On 12 Nov 2025

World fig 1 Carlos Alcaraz came nether utmost unit earlier overcoming American Taylor Fritz 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 successful a thrilling round-robin lucifer astatine the ATP Finals, leaving the Spaniard connected 2 wins from two.

Last year’s finalist Fritz played the tennis of his beingness connected Tuesday arsenic some men served up the champion brushwood of the season-ending championships truthful far, but the American ran retired of steam arsenic Alcaraz turned connected the benignant and took the deciding acceptable with ease.

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Alcaraz and Fritz had won their opening Jimmy Connors Group matches, and the Spaniard looked successful existent occupation erstwhile the American took the opening acceptable successful a tiebreak. Alcaraz faced interruption points successful the 2nd acceptable but rallied backmost to gully level.

Fritz began to tire, and Alcaraz broke to pb 4-2 successful the last acceptable earlier wrapping up the triumph successful 2 hours and 48 minutes by serving retired to love.

“It was beauteous tight. I was struggling much than him successful the archetypal set,” Alcaraz said. “I wasn’t serving well, and I deliberation helium was beauteous comfy from the baseline, from everywhere.”

Alcaraz closes successful connected fig 1 ranking

Alcaraz volition beryllium assured of a semifinal spot if Alex de Minaur defeats Lorenzo Musetti successful the evening match. He besides needs 1 much triumph to warrant the year-ending satellite fig 1 spot and volition look Musetti connected Thursday.

“I effort not to deliberation astir it to beryllium honest,” Alcaraz said.

“Obviously, it’s going to beryllium a truly large lucifer for me. I’ll effort to power the emotions, to power myself.”

Tuesday’s clash was a conflict from the opening crippled arsenic Fritz took 9 minutes to clasp aft hitting 3 aces but besides faced 2 interruption points. The American forced 3 interruption points successful the adjacent crippled earlier the brace traded breaks.

Fritz raced into a 5-2 pb successful the tiebreak and smashed 2 aces to instrumentality the set. At 2-2 successful the second, Alcaraz was rattled. His driblet shots that earlier had beaten Fritz began to autumn short, but aft losing vantage 5 times, the Spaniard held on.

Alcaraz got fortunate with a changeable that deed the nett but crept implicit successful the last crippled of the 2nd acceptable and broke to instrumentality the lucifer to a third, wherever Alcaraz outclassed an exhausted Fritz.

“I was truly relieved aft the triumph due to the fact that of everything I went done during the match,” Alcaraz said.

“I wasn’t feeling the shot arsenic good arsenic I was successful the archetypal round, but I’m truly blessed that I recovered a mode to travel back.”