Scheduled for Friday evening, the final meeting of the group stage between the German Alexander Zverev, who beat Alcaraz on Monday, and the Russian Andrey Rublev presented no sporting interest. And it was the German who won in two sets 6-4, 6-4, thus pocketing the 200 points in the ATP rankings and the $390,000 awarded to the winner.
The two best players on the planet, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, will face each other on Saturday evening in the semi-finals of the ATP Masters for the fourth time this season, after the Spaniard’s authoritative qualification on Friday.
He dominated the Russian Daniil Medvedev, already qualified for Saturday’s duels, in two sets 6-4, 6-4, with an almost identical scenario in both sets.