By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, October 25, 2025
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Nicolas Mahut will bid farewell to home fans in Paris next week.
The 43-year-old Frenchman will play his final professional tour at the Rolex Paris Masters armed with a familiar ally: Grigor Dimitrov.
Wild cards Mahut and Dimitrov will play Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys in their Rolex Paris Masters doubleheader.
The farewell of former doubles world number 1, Mahut, coincides with the return of Dimitrov.
The 37th-ranked Bulgarian has been sidelined for more than three months since tearing a pectoral muscle at Wimbledon as he hosted Jannik Sinner 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 in the round of 16.
Former world No.3 Dimitrov is also involved in the Paris Masters draw, where he will play deadly Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in the first round. The winner of that match will face former world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev or Spain’s Jaume Munar in the second round.
The owner of 37 career doubles titles, Mahut teamed up with one of his opponents, Roger-Vasselin, to win his last 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 the final.
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.
