Spain's Carlos Alcaraz returns the ball to Australia's Alex de Minaur during their singles tennis match of the ATP World Tour Finals, in Turin, Italy on Sunday.

Top seed Carlos Alcaraz began his bid for his first ATP Finals trophy with a 7-6(5) 6-2 win over Alex de Minaur and two-time champion Alexander Zverev overpowered Ben Shelton in their round-robin openers at the season-ending championships on Sunday.

Alcaraz won his opening ATP Finals match for the first time despite De Minaur’s battling display where the Australian recovered from 4-1 down, and 0-40 on his own serve, to force a tiebreak in the opening set before the Spaniard came out on top.

The pair traded breaks at the start of the second set, but Alcaraz raced into another 4-1 lead and this time there was no comeback, despite

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