Alcaraz’s shock US Open exit leaves Sinner with big opportunity in Live Race

p a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz/a0e2/overview'Carlos Alcaraz/a’s unexpected second-round defeat at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a has presented a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a with a big opportunity to extend his advantage in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin. /pp Sinner (7,100 points) holds a healthy 1,090-point lead over second-placed Alcaraz in the Live Race, which is also an indicator of who is in the running to finish as ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF. After Alcaraz fell to a shock second-round defeat to a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/botic-van-de-zandschulp/v812/overview'Botic van de Zandschulp/a on Thursday night, the World No. 1 Sinner knows he could extend his Live Race lead from Alcaraz to 2,990 points by lifting the trophy at the hard-court major. /pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"Pure SINNER-MA ????br /br /

World No. 1 a href="https://twitter.com/janniksin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@janniksin/a notches his 50th win of the season with a scintillating 6-4 6-0 6-2 demolition job over Michelsen! a href="https://twitter.com/usopen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@usopen/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USOpen?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#USOpen/a a href="https://t.co/kEEpyCCSs4"pic.twitter.com/kEEpyCCSs4/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1829215646007341313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"August 29, 2024/a/blockquotescript async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/scriptp With a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-zverev/z355/overview'Alexander Zverev/a still alive in the New York draw, Sinner must still reach his maiden a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a semi-final to guarantee he remains in top spot once the hard-court major is done. If Sinner loses in the fourth round or at the quarter-final stage, the third-placed Zverev could claim the Live Race lead by claiming his maiden major title. The German will jump above Alcaraz into second if he reaches at least the quarter-finals. /ppstrongPIF ATP Live Race To Turin/strong/ptable style="width: 100%;" tbody tr tdnbsp;strongPlayer/strong/td tdnbsp;strongPoints/strong/td /tr tr tdnbsp;1) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a/td tdnbsp;7,100/td /tr tr tdnbsp;2) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz/a0e2/overview'Carlos Alcaraz/anbsp;/td tdnbsp;6,010/td /tr tr tdnbsp;3) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-zverev/z355/overview'Alexander Zverev/a/td tdnbsp;5,815/td /tr tr tdnbsp;4) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/daniil-medvedev/mm58/overview'Daniil Medvedev/a/td tdnbsp;4,120/td /tr tr tdnbsp;5) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/casper-ruud/rh16/overview'Casper Ruud/a/td tdnbsp;3,695/td /tr tr tdnbsp;6) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andrey-rublev/re44/overview'Andrey Rublev/a/td tdnbsp;3,380/td /tr tr tdnbsp;7) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/novak-djokovic/d643/overview'Novak Djokovic/a/td tdnbsp;3,260/td /tr tr tdnbsp;8) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-de-minaur/dh58/overview'Alex de Minaur/a/td tdnbsp;3,005/td /tr /tbody/tablep The five players behind Sinner, Alcaraz and Zverev in the Live Race all remain in contention at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a. They include seventh-placed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/novak-djokovic/d643/overview'Novak Djokovic/a, who has eased into the third round at Flushing Meadows as he chases his record-extending 25th Grand Slam men’s singles title. Should the Serbian achieve that feat, it would also boost his standing in the Live Race: the seven-time a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/nitto-atp-finals/605/overview'Nitto ATP Finals/a champion could rise as high as fourth by clinching the title in New York. /pp a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-de-minaur/dh58/overview'Alex de Minaur/a (3,005 points) consolidated eighth place by beating a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/otto-virtanen/v0am/overview'Otto Virtanen/a to reach the third round. Ninth-placed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stefanos-tsitsipas/te51/overview'Stefanos Tsitsipas/a made a first-round exit in New York, but there are three players within 500 points of De Minaur still alive at Flushing Meadows. /pp Home favourites a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/taylor-fritz/fb98/overview'Taylor Fritz/a (2,690 points) and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tommy-paul/pl56/overview'Tommy Paul/a (2,635 points), as well as a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/grigor-dimitrov/d875/overview'Grigor Dimitrov/a (2,535 points) will all be eying deeper runs to ramp up the pressure on the Australian, who currently holds the final qualification spot for the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/nitto-atp-finals/605/overview'Nitto ATP Finals/a. In 14th, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/lorenzo-musetti/m0ej/overview'Lorenzo Musetti/a is also in contention. The Italian is on 2,225 points, 780 behind De Minaur. /pp [NEWSLETTER FORM] /p