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Casper Ruud (25) is the other favorite against Jannik Sinner (23).
Gazetta Dello Sport’s commentator, Paolo Bertolucci, does not live the Norwegian’s big chances in the ATP playoffs semifinals on Saturday. The former player is happy that the Italian, who is number 1 in the world ranking, will not have to face Carlos Alcaraz or Alexander Zverev.
– I think this was welcomed in the Sinner clan with some satisfaction. Without a doubt, meeting the Norwegian Casper Ruud instead of the Spaniard – even if he is injured – can only give a sigh of relief, writes Bertolucci in Gazette.
Paolo Bertolucci
Tennis expert in Gazetta Dello Sport
After a problematic harvest, Ruud has impressed during the end of the season in Torino.
But 73-year-old Paolo Bertolucci believes the Norwegian has a limited register to play on.
– In the semi-finals Jannik meets Ruud, a solid and prepared player. Very strong physically and mentally, but monotonous, who has no imagination and technical quality to be able to think of excluding a player like Sinner from the fight for the title for which he is the favorite. Jannik must simply be himself, believes Bertolucci, who himself was ranked number 12 in the world at best.
Jannik Sinner won both the Australian Open and the US Open this season. The last time has given the star from South Tyrol huge incomes. If Sinner wins at home in Torino, he will have earned 10 million euros – almost 117 million kroner – in just 29 days.
There is also big money in the pot for Casper Ruud.
With the semi-final place, he has secured 1.1 million US dollars in prize money, which at today’s rate is almost 12.4 million Norwegian kroner. If he wins the semi-final, the prize pool will increase to almost NOK 25 million.
Casper Ruud has not met Jannik Sinner in the last three years. But lost to him in Vienna both in 2021 and 2020. Both fights were played on «hardcourt» indoors.
As in Inalpi Arena on Saturday night. Battle start at 8:30 p.m.
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