By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday October 25, 2024
The final Masters 1000 event of 2024 takes place in Paris next week and the draw has been released with world no.1 Jannik the Sinner and No. 2 of the World Carlos Alcaraz anchoring the table.
Novak Djokovicseven times and defending champion, has chosen not to play this year.
Sinner will face either Ben Shelton or Felix Auger-Aliassime after a first-round bye; Alcaraz will face Nicolas Jarry or a special qualifier/elimination.
The Sinner would face the following path to the finals if the seeds hold:
R2: Shelton/ Auger-Aliassime
R16: (13) Runes
QF: (5) Fritz
SF: (3) Zverev
Alcaraz would face the following, if the seeds stand:
R2: Jarry
R16: (15) Humbert
QF: (7) Ruud
SF: (4) Medvedev
Neither Sinner (best performance: Round of 16) nor Alcaraz (best performance: quarter-finals 2022) have been to a semi-final or beyond in Paris.
The race to Turin will be over after the tournament, with several players still hoping to qualify with a big run in Paris. Among them, Alex de Minaur, who is currently tied for eighth as a semi-finalist in Vienna, as well as Grigor Dimitrov, who will need a big push to overtake De Minaur and Andrey Rublev.
Eighth seed Dimitrov will face Tomas Martin Etcheverry or Zhang Zhizhen after a bye. Ninth seed De Minaur will face Argentina’s Mariano Navone in the opening round and is in the Sinner’s first quarter of the draw.
Casper Ruud, currently seventh in the Race to Turin, will face either Jordan Thompson or a special qualifier/disqualifier. Tommy Paul, currently 11th in the Race to Turin, faces Adrian Mannarino in the first round. Paul is in the last quarter of Carlos Alcaraz.
The cutoff for the main draw is 44 – Italy’s Matteo Berrettini, who faces Alexei Popyrin in the first round.
See the full draw here:
Here is the draw for the final Masters 1000 event of 2024 – PARIS pic.twitter.com/7bAzQeZq5n
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