By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Photo: Rolex Paris Masters Instagram
The tennis marathon took its final lap on the tennis court today with cheers ringing in its ears.
Former world number 1 in doubles Nicolas Mahut played his last match at the Rolex Paris Masters.
43-year-old Mahut and his partner Grigor Dimitrov lost to Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys 6-4, 5-7, 10-4 in front of a cheering and supportive French crowd on Court No. 2.
Before the French doubles legend rose to serve his final match point, partner Dimitrov asked the crowd to give him a standing ovation. Mahuti, wiping sweat and perhaps tears from his face with his shirt sleeve, served one last ball. Roger-Vasselin passed Mahut, ending a brilliant career.
French fans and several current and former players, including Richard Gasquet, Benjamin Bonzi, Paul-Henri Mathieu and Ivan Ljubicic, stood in unison embracing Mahut in a final standing ovation.
Five double titles in the Grand Slam ✅
39 weeks at No. 1 ✅
37 doubles titles ✅
2017 Davis Cup ✅
And countless emotional memories ✅@GrigorDimitrov it is there as a legend @nmahut bid him farewell #RolexParisMasters 🙏 pic.twitter.com/oPRCIP6tJm— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) October 28, 2025
The owner of 37 career doubles titles, Mahut teamed up with one of his opponents, Roger-Vasselin, to win his final doubles championship in Florence 2022. Mahut and long-time partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert won the 2019 Rolex Paris Masters doubles championship by defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev in final.
In a touching move, Mahut and Dimitrov, sitting side by side after the match, exchanged Lacoste T-shirts like soccer stars. After signing autographs for fans, Mahut made one last touching gesture as a pro by placing his hoops on the baseline.
Mahut, who started playing tennis at the age of 5, is famous for the longest match in tennis history. At Wimbledon 2010, Mahut bowed out to John Isner 70-68 in the fifth set in an epic 11 hour and 5 minute encounter. Later, Mahuti wrote a book about that marathon titled The match of my life.
