He can always pull out of something. I may be wrong, but I have a feeling he won't play Davis Cup, for example.
Paris he has traditionally not cared too much about either (or been screwed over by the schedule).

Also, he had 3 months off earlier in the year and indoor HC is his best surface, so he might want to go all in.

 

He doesn't need Vienna entry,can get WC to any tournament on the planet

 

Shameless vulturing of the indoor HC season for the gingerbot.

 

Go out and touch some grass. It should stimulate your brainless trolling-hating cells.

 

Top players almost always withdraw from Paris in preparation for the year-end championship, but they are entered automatically (as for all M1000 tournaments). I don't think Sinner has any intention of playing.

Six Kings is not real.

 

No fit top player outside Fed was skipping Paris on regular basis.
Six kings matches against top players right after b2b China swing.
The point is huge amount of matches in less than two months in the end of season.

 

He's playing for year end No. 1. Achievable.

 

His only chance if Carlos injured(maybe he is after today match)

 

My best guess is that he will pull out from Vienna. Everything else he will play, although I would be for him deciding to f*ck that Six Kings nonsense. Pointless tournament anyway.

 

Again why doing this stupid thing,people bying tickets.
You alienating potential fans,plus official entry denying low ranking player entry.
He can get WC wherever he wants.

 

Skinner copying prime Dull playbook of stacking up tournaments on fav surface

 

However in this case what Binner is doing is arguably even more shameless because points at the end of the year means more vultured weeks at n.1 for the year after. Binner needs to be stopped. Maybe peak FAA is the answer.

 

So that’s 4500 points that are achievable…it was mentioned the difference is about 2500. He’s gonna have to pretty much win all and hope Alcaraz falls in like quarters / semis of his remaining

 

The real #1 coming to reclaim what is his.

 

real #1? Alcaraz has won the same number of slams, but he has won 3 masters compared to Sinner’s 0. I’d agree sinner had a better 2024, but alcaraz for sure has been better this year

 

He'll either swat away Vienna or Paris... or both.

No chance he's playing all of them.

 

'Five Kings and Tsitsipas'

This should get into the MTF's Hall of Fame of quotes. Golden stuff 🤣

 

Update Sinner not sure about Davis cup.

 

'Five Kings and tsistsipas'

This should get into the MTF's Hall of Fame of quotes. Golden stuff 🤣

Yes! Every time I see it I have to laugh again 😂 Poor old Tsitsi!

 

Really, it's mostly six kings that's weird here, although I agree that he should remove Vienna as well. Shanghai, Paris and Turin are all mandatory and at his age he should play all. It would've looked better if Shanghai were a 56 draw instead of 96 draw. I was surprised to see Zverev is also playing Vienna as well.

I assume that realistically, decisions will probably be made after Shanghai depending on Alcaraz and Sinner's results until then. There are quite a few possibilities for Sinner to retake #1 by Turin, especially as Alcaraz is not playing Vienna/Basel and Sinner not protecting points from Paris. I have my doubts, though, that Sinner will keep #1 after Turin.

 

Paris/London points used to be dropping on same day,not anymore?

 

It's really not that extreme. Last two seasons he played 79 and 84 matches.

So far he's on 43. If he were to make the final of Beijing, Shanghai, 6 Kings, Vienna, Paris and WTF, he would have played an extra 28 matches, so 71 in total.
Davis Cup is another 3 singles max, plus max 3 doubles.

It's a lot of matches in two months, but doable at his age, no 5 setters either and you'd expect him to win many/most comfortably - his next 3 will be something like Atmane/Muller/ADM, for example.
For context, Alcaraz played 23 matches in two months on clay this spring (but 7 of them were best of 5) and won all but 1.

 

Sinner thought Alcaraz will tank the whole indoor season like before. Hence he is stacking up.

 

My guess is he'll skip Paris & Davis Cup.

 

If you are fighting for number 1 why do you skip a masters event like Paris? Djokovic has won that double Paris - ATP finals a few times even when there was not a week rest between the two - pretty hard to do! He didn't play too much though between US Open and the end of the year - usually only Shanghai and Paris - ATP finals - Sinner is playing ATP 500 Beijing - 1000 Shanghai and then ATP 500 Vienna - I can see that he is aiming at ATP 500 where the number of matches is less and the possibility of all top players playing it are also less than a masters event but these are travellings around the world - not very pragmatic.

 

Hopefully Novak executes a Shanghai surprise to the Closteboller 🤞🤞