Two-time champion Novak Djokovic takes on World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz within the ultimate of the Cincinnati Open, an ATP Masters 1000 occasion, on Saturday.
The conflict is scheduled to be the second match on the Centre Court docket following the ladies’s ultimate between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova on the ultimate day of this yr’s version.
When and the place to look at?
The Cincinnati Open ultimate between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz can be streamed dwell on SonyLiv. The match will begin at 2AM IST on August 20.
Will probably be the primary time Djokovic and Alcaraz will come nose to nose since the 20-year-old Spaniard defeated four-time champion Djokovic 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in an exciting Wimbledon ultimate final month.
Djokovic, competing on US soil for the primary time in two years and in Cincinnati after 4 years, has had a fairly simple run to the summit conflict. The 36-year-old Serbian led Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4 within the first spherical when the Spaniard was compelled to retire on account of a again harm. Djokovic then knocked out Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-2, extending the win-loss document towards the Frenchman to 19-0.
Djokovic took down native favorite Taylor Fritz 6-0, 6-4 within the quarterfinals earlier than beating Germany’s Alexander Zverev 7-6(5), 7-5 within the semifinals, his hardest match thus far.
However, Alcaraz has needed to battle by means of each spherical. He started his marketing campaign with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over Australian qualifier Jordan Thompson. American Tommy Paul, who defeated Alcaraz within the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open, gave the Spaniard a scare within the spherical of 16 in Cincinnati however the prime seed managed to beat him 7-6(6), 6-7(0), 6-3.
Alcaraz confronted Max Purcell, one other Australian qualifier, within the quarterfinals and it once more took him three units to defeat him 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Nonetheless, like Djokovic, Alcaraz too had his greatest take a look at within the semifinals as he was compelled to save lots of a match level earlier than taking down Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3.
Alcaraz is the youngest Cincinnati Open finalist since Pete Sampras (19) in 1991 and aiming to change into the youngest champion since Boris Becker (17) in 1985.
Head-to-head document
Performed: 3 | Djokovic: 1 | Alcaraz: 2
Djokovic and Alcaraz have confronted one another thrice. Their first assembly occurred within the semifinal of the 2022 Madrid Masters the place Alcaraz got here from a set all the way down to beat the Serbian 6-7(5), 7-5, 7-6(5). Of their second duel, Djokovic emerged triumphant 6-4, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 on this yr’s French Open semifinals. Nonetheless, Alcaraz avenged that loss by upsetting the Serbian within the Wimbledon ultimate.