The competition that begins this Sunday, November 10, will miss Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal
Las ATP Finals 2024 of Turin (north), the ancient Masters Cup, last event of the year and in which the eight best rackets on the circuit meet, it will be the first edition since 2001 without a representative of the ‘Big Three’, formed by the swiss Roger Federer, the spanish Rafael Nadal and the Serbian Novak Djokovic.
An era of tennis is coming to an end. With the announcement of Rafael Nadal’s retirement after the Davis Cup, Only Djokovic will remain active on the circuit as the last bastion of the golden generation of this sport.
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And the Serb will not defend his ‘Master’ crown in Turin for a injury, leaving the competition without a member of the ‘Big Three’ for the first time in 23 years, since 2001 in which no one participated.
In that edition, as in the present one, there was only one Spaniard among the eight best in the ranking and it was, curiously, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the coach of the only Spaniard in the current team, Carlos Alcaraz.
The American Andre Agassi, the Croatian Goran Ivanisevic, the Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean, the Australians Lleyton Hewitt and Patrick Rafter, the Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and the Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten They completed the poster for a tournament that was held in Sydney.
In this one the Italian will do it Jannik Sinner, to German Alexander Zverev, to Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, the russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, el Norwegian Casper Ruud, the American Taylor Fritz and the Australian Alex de Minaur. The Bulgarian will attend as reserves Grigor Dimitrov and the greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who will miss the final event of the year for the first time in 5 years.
In 2003 began the reign of ‘Nole’ and Federer, the players with the most titles. The Serbian has seven, the Swiss has six. None Rafa Nadal, in the only major individual tournament that has eluded him his entire career.
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Already in 2003, a 22-year-old Federer It began with his reign. He also won in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011.
Djokovic responded for the first time in 2008, but he had to wait 4 years to win it again in 2012. Afterwards, he chained another 3 in a row with his victories in 2013, 2014 y 2015. He completed his record with successes in 2022 and 2023, also becoming the oldest tennis player to lift the coveted title.
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