Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will headline the Paris Rolex Masters which starts on Monday on Monday 30 October at the Accor Holel Arena in Paris Bercy.
Djokovic will chase a record-extending seventh title in the French capital. The Serbian player will start his campaign against either Miomir Kecmanovic or Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the second round and could face a third round against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who beat this year’s Tokyo ATP 500 champion Ben Shelton in the first round.
Djokovic will be playing in his first tournament since the US Open.
Djokovic is on a collision course for a potential semifinal against Jannik Sinner, who won four titles in Montpellier, at the Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto and two ATP 500 events in Beijing and Vienna and has climbed to fourth in the ATP Ranking. Sinner will take on either Mackenzie McDonald or JJ Wolf in the second round before potential clashes against Alex De Minaur in the fourth round and either Andrey Rublev or Tommy Paul in the quarter final. Sinner beat Rublev in the semifinal of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.
The Italian player lost to Ben Shelton in the Round of 16 in Shanghai after winning the China Open final against Medvedev.
Djokovic leads Alcaraz by 500 points before the Paris Bercy Masters 1000 tournament and is defending 600 points after finishing runner-up to Holger Rune in the Paris Bercy championship match.
Alcaraz and Stefanos Tsitsipas are the top seeds in the fourth quarter. Alcaraz will play his opening round match against either Cameron Norrie or Alexandre Muller. Alcaraz could face Karen Khachanov in the third round and either Stefanos Tsitsipas or Alexander Zverev in the quarter final.
Alcaraz has been drawn in the same half as last week’s Vienna finalist Danil Medvedev, who will open his campaign against the winner of the match between Grigor Dimitrov and Lorenzo Musetti.
Tsitsipas will face against either last week’s Swiss Indoors champion Felix Auger Aliassime or Jan-Lennard Struff before a potential clash against Zverev.
Zverev will play against either last week’s Swiss Indoors semifinalist Ugo Humbert or a qualifier.
Defending champion Holger Rune will face either Stan Wawrinka or Matteo Arnaldi. The Danish player beat Wawrinka in three sets en route to his first Masters 1000 title in Paris Bercy last year. Rune lost to Auger Aliassime in the semifinal in Basel last week. Rune is seeded to meet Taylor Fritz in the third set. Fritz is currently ninth in the ATP Race to Turin on 3055 points, 105 points behind Rune.
Hubert Hurkacz showed his recent good form by winning his second Masters 1000 title in Shanghai and reaching the final in Basel last week. The Polish player is seeded to face last year’a Nitto ATP Final runner-up Casper Ruud, who will start his campaign against either this year’s Stockholm champion Gael Monfils or Francisco Cerundolo.
