 Novak Djokovic vs Holger Runa is a second match of the AWP finals for 2023. Both these guys are coming into the tournament with confidence. Holger Runa comes into this tournament as a number eight in the world. We'll be making his debut after last year missing out by one spot finishing number nine. His win-loss record this year is the worst out of anybody with only 43 wins and 22 losses but he has won a title this year and has made two big finals in both Monte Carlo and Rome along the way. His best win coming against Djokovic in Rome and his worst loss was against Nakashima a couple of weeks ago at the Shanghai Masters. His form lately has been a little better though making it to the quarter finals of Paris and the semi-finals of Basel in recent times and of course pushing Djokovic last week in Paris to nearly a three-hour match so he's starting to get into form just at the right time. Novak Djokovic comes into the AWP finals as the number one in the world and only needs one win to wrap up the year-end number one ranking for another time. His AWP finals record, his best results here have been winning the title on multiple occasions in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and we're coming in as the defending champion from last year's event winning it back in 2022. His record 51 wins five losses of course not playing that much due to not being allowed to play in America and also taking some time off after the US Open and his record has been six titles in one final with the only loss that he's had in a final being at Wimbledon two Elcaraz. His best win was beating Elcaraz in Cincinnati and of course beating Elcaraz at the French Open and his worst loss was against Lijewicz who was 70 in the world at the time in Bosnia during the clay court swing but he's got the best form of anybody coming in with no losses in his last 10 matches. In fact his last loss came at Wimbledon back in July. These guys have played four times or four with the head-head split down the middle 2-2 and of course who can forget the match they played last week in Paris being a three-set epic going to Djokovic but Runa had won their previous two matches and he's probably one of the only guys besides Elcaraz that consistently pushes Djokovic to the brink. Runa's going to win this one he needs to get off to a good start and be aggressive he got off to a good start against Djokovic in some respects he didn't win the first set but he needs to win the first set you feel like in this one if he is going to get Djokovic and catch him off guard a little bit if Djokovic is going to win this one he's going to have to get off to a good start as well. We know Djokovic for some reason last week in Paris in the first set he just felt like he was a little bit off in pretty much every match except for the first one and maybe the final as well so hopefully that stomach bug's gone and he can get off to a better start in this tournament in this match in particular what a great match just start off day one of the adb finals of course certified banger you know we've had this match played a few times and it's always guaranteed a banger but i'm going to have Djokovic in this one i think Runa playing his first adb finals might be a little nervous and i think Djokovic is over the troubles that he had last week and i think he's out to prove a point as well but let me know down the comments below who's going to win this first match