Rafael Nadal celebrated his first win in his last group game at the ATP finals. The Spaniard won in Turin against the Norwegian Casper Ruud 7: 5, 7: 5.
However, after his two opening defeats, Nadal had no chance of making it into the semi-finals and was eliminated after the preliminary round despite the success. After two victories, Ruud was already a semi-finalist at the end of the season of the eight best tennis professionals of the year before the new edition of the French Open final and meets either Andrej Rublew or Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece), both play against each other on Friday.
In the second game of the day, Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and Taylor Fritz (USA) met. The American prevailed in the third and decisive set 7: 6 (7: 4), 6: 7 (5: 7), 6: 2 over Auger-Aliassime. In the semifinals, Fritz now meets Novak Djokovic, who still plays against Daniil Medvedev on Friday.