The men’s game saw Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors do battle with each other in the 1980s, while Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras dueled through the 90s. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal then established themselves as the dominant forces,

Taylor Fritz, the U.S. Open finalist who lost to Sinner in New York, was also drawn in the Italian’s group alongside Australian Alex De Minaur, making his ATP Tour Finals debut; Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev, who qualified as world No. 9 after Novak Djokovic withdrew, rounded out the second group.

Former world number 1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov has attacked current World No.1 Jannik Sinner. And the former Russian tennis player does not go down easy on it saying that the Italian is a tennis player "stupidly designed to hit" and that only Carlos Alcaraz can be placed on par with the Big 3.