{"id":26535,"date":"2025-11-11T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/alcaraz-overtakes-fritz-one-win-away-from-first-place-in-ranking\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:28:35","slug":"alcaraz-overtakes-fritz-one-win-away-from-first-place-in-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/alcaraz-overtakes-fritz-one-win-away-from-first-place-in-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz overtakes Fritz, one win away from first place in ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TURIN, Italy &#8212; Carlos Alcaraz is one win away from claiming number one in the year-end rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz defeated Taylor Fritz 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 at the ATP Finals on Tuesday and needs a win in the final group match against Lorenzo Musetti or in the final semi-final to finish No. 1 for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1109%2Fr1573329_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1109%2Fr1573329_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1109%2Fr1573329_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1109%2Fr1573329_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Alcaraz improved to 2-0 in the final match of the season between the top eight players and could clinch a spot in the semi-finals if Alex de Minaur defeats Musetti.<\/p>\n<p>If Alcaraz does not win his next match and Jannik Sinner defends his title undefeated, Sinner will finish in first place.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz produced 47 winners to Fritz&#8217;s 38 and managed to claw his way back from a set down despite hitting 14 aces from his American opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz currently sits atop the Jimmy Connors Group ahead of Fritz, who is 1-1. De Minaur and Musetti both have 0 wins and 1 loss.<\/p>\n<p>The top two from each group advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner leads the group after defeating Felix Auger-Aliassime in Monday&#8217;s opening match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TURIN, Italy &#8212; Carlos Alcaraz is one win away from claiming number one in the year-end rankings. Alcaraz defeated Taylor Fritz 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-3 at the ATP Finals on Tuesday and needs a win in the final group match against Lorenzo Musetti or in the final semi-final to finish No. 1 for the second time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,2619,721,1221,625,24,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-26535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-fritz","10":"tag-overtakes","11":"tag-place","12":"tag-ranking","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}