​Novak Djokovic and Holger Rune showed a spectacular match, the match between them lasted for three hours and 5 minutes. The ATP leader won, the Serbian debuted with the right to the 2023 Tournament of Champions (7-6(4), 6-7(1), 6-3).

Nole and Roon were inseparable in the first two sets, needing two tie-breaks. The Serb won the first (7-4), and the Dane won the second (7-1).

It came down to the deciding set, where Joker was better overall: he served once, but recovered from the return (he broke twice, which turned out to be enough).

The result of the match Novak Djokovic – Holger Rune

Also on Sunday, a match between Yannick Sinner and Stefanos Tsitsipas took place in the Green Group. It was 6-4, 6-4 for the Darren Cahill-coached Italian.

How the groups of the Tournament of Champions 2023 look like

A simple table

• Green group

(1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – champion title

(4) Yannick Sinner (Italy)

(6) Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)

(8) Holger Rune (Denmark)

• Red group

(2) Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)

(3) Daniil Medvedev (Russia)

(5) Andriy Rublev (Russia)

(7) Oleksandr Zverev (Germany).

Who won the Tournament of Champions over time

Novak Djokovic 6 (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2022)

Roger Federer 6 (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011)

Ivan Lendl 5 (1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987)

Pete Sampras 5 (1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999)

Ilye Nastase 4 (1971, 1972, 1973, 1975)

Boris Becker 3 (1988, 1992, 1995)

John McEnroe (1978, 1983, 1984)

Bjorn Borg 2 (1979, 1980)

Leighton Hewitt 2 (2001, 2002)

Oleksandr Zverev 2 (2018, 2021)

Andy Murray (2016)

Grigor Dimitrov (2017)

Stefanos Tsitsipas (2019)

Daniil Medvedev (2020)

Andre Agassi (1990)

Stan Smith (1970)

Mykola Davydenko (2009)

Stefan Edberg (1989)

Jimmy Connors (1977)

Alex Corretha (1998)

Gustavo Kuerten (2000)

David Nalbandyan (2005)

Manuel Orantes (1976)

Michael Stitch (1993)

Guillermo Vilas (1974).