See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Tuesday 11th of November 2025!
Convincing first-up winners Carlos Alcaraz and Taylor Fritz square off to seal an early ATP Finals semifinal berth.
Alcaraz broke down some early resistance from Alex de Minaur to win 7-6 6-2, while Fritz disposed of Lorenzo Musetti 6-3 6-4 yesterday. The American held serve throughout and sent down 13 aces.
This head-to-head stands 4-1 in Alcaraz’s favour. Fritz picked up his first win in the rivalry at the Laver Cup in September, but Alcaraz responded with a 6-4 6-4 victory in the Japan Open final a week later.
Alcaraz was upset by Cameron Norrie at the Paris Masters – his only match in the interim. The world No.2 is looking to atone for being bundled out in the round-robin stage of last year’s ATP Finals.
Fritz was the runner-up in Turin last year. His lead-in form has been patchy, going 3-3 following his final run in Tokyo.
Alcaraz, a $1.22 favourite, should take out this pivotal showdown – but expect Fritz to keep it relatively close.
Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti and Australian Alex de Minaur are striving to stay in ATP Finals semifinal contention after dropping their first matches.
De Minaur went down 7-6 6-2 to Carlos Alcaraz after blowing a 5-3 lead in the first-set tiebreak. Musetti struggled to handle Taylor Fritz’s serve in a 6-3 6-4 loss.
World No.7 de Minaur’s recent form has been solid, reaching semifinals in Beijing and Vienna – losing both to Jannik Sinner – and quarterfinals in Shanghai and Paris.
Musetti also got to the semis in Vienna and was the runner-up in Athens last week to Novak Djokovic, whose withdrawal from the ATP Finals gifted the 23-year-old his Turin debut.
De Minaur won their first encounter back at the 2022 Australian Open. But Musetti has won all three clashes since – including in the Monte-Carlo Masters semis and the Madrid Masters Round of 16 earlier this year.
Musetti has just one hard-court win over a top-10 opponent since 2022 (against Alexander Zverev in Vienna last year); the conditions suit de Minaur’s game and he is in a good position to pick up a maiden ATP Finals victory
Aussie Tristan Schoolkate is searching for his third Challenger title of 2025 in Lyon, where he meets Croatian tyro Matej Dodig in the first round.
World No.97 Schoolkate took out the Queensland International and the Ilkley Open earlier this season. Wins have been hard to come by since he beat Lorenzo Sonego in the first round of the US Open, however.
The 24-year-old went down to Dan Added in Moselle Open qualifying last week.
Dodig, 20, defeated Jakub Paul and Added in qualifying to grab a main draw spot here. The world No.242 is coming off an encouraging showing at the Tali Open, where he beat former top-25 player Dusan Lajovic.
Dodig won his first Challenger title on clay at the Internazionali di Tennis Città di Trieste in July, but the more experienced Schoolkate is an enticing pick as the narrowest of outsiders in this one.
One of the best credentialled players at the All In Open in Lyon, German veteran Jan-Lennard Struff gets underway against Kazakh Beibet Zhukayev.
Former top-25 player Struff, currently ranked 100th, made a surprise run to the US Open’s fourth round as a qualifier, upsetting seeds Holger Rune and Frances Tiafoe before running into Novak Djokovic.
The 35-year-old also rolled Karen Khachanov to reach the Almaty Open quarterfinals last month.
World No.282 Zhukayev won qualifiers against higher-ranked duo Edas Butvilas and George Loffhagen to get to the main draw here. He made his grand slam debut at Wimbledon this year.
Struff should have too much class for the 25-year-old and wrap this up in straight sets.