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Today’s tennis mood rating: Exhilarated with a bit of a relief.
Let’s tennis!
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🎾 Day three: We’re into the third day of the ATP Tour Finals in Turin, and we’ve got our first intriguing match of the tournament with Taylor Fritz facing Carlos Alcaraz and his hope of pulling off a Laver Cup repeat win. Will he do it? The odds aren’t in his favor, but anything is possible. Still, we’ve got two singles matches and two doubles matches on tap today.
Turin - ATP Tour Finals (Hard)
Carlos Alcaraz vs. Taylor Fritz (Round Robin)
Lorenzo Musetti vs. Alex de Minaur (Round Robin)
Granollers/Zeballos vs. Bolelli/Vavassori (Round Robin)
Cash/Glasspool vs. Krawietz/Putz (Round Robin)
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🎾 Everything's fine: Felix Auger-Aliassime was playing a brilliant match against Jannik Sinner on Monday, until he came up a little gingerly with an apparent left calf tweak. FAA lost to the top Italian, 7-5, 6-1. After the match, he tried to put to rest any concerns that the injury could sideline him for the rest of the tournament.
What he said: “No, not dangerous. I'm not too concerned. He's an amazing player. You have to give credit when the guy is just better than you,” Auger-Aliassime said after the match. “Today he was better than me. I'll get ready for the next one.”
Next: Felix Auger-Aliassime faces Ben Shelton on Wednesday.
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