Turin

TURIN - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis, defeated Pole Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (7-1), 4-6, 6-1 in an ATP Finals Green group third round match in Turin on Thursday but now needs a Jannik Sinner victory over Dane Holger Rune to qualify for the semi-finals.

TURIN - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis, lost to Italian Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 in the second round of the ATP Finals Green group in Turin on Tuesday evening.

Sinner registered his first-ever win against Djokovic after over three hours of play and is now 1-3 head-to-head against the Serbian.

Stefanos Tsitsipas withdrew from the ATP Finals with a back injury on Tuesday after playing only three games of his second match in Turin, handing Holger Rune the victory.

Tsitsipas, the 2019 champion, was trailing 2-1 in the opening set when he had a lengthy conversation with his trainer before slowly getting to his feet, shaking his head and walking over to shake Rune's hand.

From 9:00 p.m., Djokovic is expected to have a duel with the Italian Jannik Sinner, the fourth ranked tennis player in the world.
For the Italian, it is the best ranking on the ATP ranking in his career, and the 22-year-old has won four titles this year, for a total of ten.
At the opening of the tournament, Sinner defeated Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6:4, 6:4 in two sets.

TURIN - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis, beat Dane Holger Rune 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (1-7), 6-3 in the first round of the ATP Finals Green group in Turin on Sunday evening, securing his eighth career end-year number one spot in the ATP rankings.

TURIN - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic was on Thursday drawn to play Jannik Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune in the Green group of the ATP Masters in Turin, the final Masters tournament of the season.

Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Alexander Zverev are in the Red group.

The top two players from each group will advance to the semi-finals.

Stefanos Tsitsipas maintained his stunning form at the Paris Masters with a 6-3 6-4 defeat of Russia's Karen Khachanov to reach the semi-finals on Friday.

The Greek, who a day earlier secured his place as one of the eight qualifiers for the ATP Finals in Turin, was at his shot-making best to dominate the contest.

World no.1 kept that epithet despite not playing in the tournaments in Vienna and Basel in the previous weeks.
Djokovic remained at 11,045 points, 2,420 more than second-placed Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz (8,625), who also did not play in the aforementioned tournaments due to injury.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis, will play at the Paris Masters, the ATP Finals in Turin and the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga until the end of the season, according to his official website.

Djokovic will skip the Astana ATP tournament and the Shanghai Masters.

As the unions reported, a million people are expected on the streets in French cities.
Workers staged protest marches across France today, May 1, International Labor Day, unhappy that President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age and police fired tear gas in Paris and Nantes in the west of the country.