Novak Djokovic will be playing his first ATP tournament since the U.S. Open and Carlos Alcaraz will be back in action after missing Basel when they suit up for the Rolex Paris Masters next week. Djokovic and Alcaraz headline the draw along with every other one of the top 32 players in the world.
The top-ranked Serb, who has played one match since triumphing in New York (defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the Davis Cup Finals), will kick off his Paris campaign against either Tomas Martin Etcheverry or fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic. Ben Shelton is Djokovic’s nearest seed, while Turin hopefuls Holger Rune and Taylor Fritz are potential quarterfinal opponents.
Also in the top half of the bracket are Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev, who have already clinched their spots in the Nitto ATP Finals. Tommy Paul and Alex de Minaur are the other seeded players in the Sinner-Rublev section, with De Minaur to set to face Andy Murray in round one. Unseeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino has been in great form and could be able to do some damage in this quarter in front of the home crowd on an indoor hard.
The bottom half is similarly stacked, with Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev on a collision course for the semifinals. Just as he did at the current ATP 500 in Vienna, Medvedev awaits an opening match against the winner of Grigor Dimitrov vs. Lorenzo Musetti. Hubert Hurkacz is also a potential roadblock for the third-ranked Russian, while Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, and Ugo Humbert find themselves in Alcaraz’s quarter.
First-round matches to watch in Paris include De Minaur vs. Murray, Dimitrov vs. Musetti, Hurkacz vs. Sebastian Korda, Shelton vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, and Frances Tiafoe vs. Alexander Bublik.
Check out the full Paris draw on the ATP website
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