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Buonasera! And welcome to our coverage of the ATP Finals group match between Jannik Sinner and Taylor Fritz, which wraps up the action on day three after a transformed Daniil Medvedev defeated Alex de Minaur earlier. Sinner and Fritz both opened with straight-sets victories on Sunday – Sinner against De Minaur and Fritz against a self-combusting Medvedev – so the winner tonight will take pole position in the Ilie Nastase group, with one more set of round-robin matches to come.
What marks this evening’s contest out is that it’s a repeat of September’s US Open final. Sinner surged past the American 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 in New York despite having most of the 23,000 spectators against him; this time the Italian will have the best part of 15,000 fans in Turin on his side – not that the world No 1 and winner of seven titles this season needs any extra help. He’s very much the leading man at the first ATP Finals in 23 years not to feature Federer, Nadal or Djokovic, and he’s the strong favourite to win the season-ending event for the first time, especially with an ailing Carlos Alcaraz reportedly ending his practice session after only 10 minutes earlier because of illness.