(Tennis news) The final Masters 1000 Rolex Paris event will be held from 1st November and all the top players will be playing to end the year with some valuable points in their pocket. This is the 8th Master 1000 event since the Shanghai tournament was cancelled due to the pandemic. 

Novak Djokovic is expected to play in the event since his defeat to Daniil Medevedev at the US Open final. The Serbian will be leading the field along with Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev. The Paris Masters has seen five different winners in the last five editions, Medevedev is the defending champion and had defeated Zverev in the final. 

Zverev has already won two Masters 1000 titles this year and will aim to win a third one to reach the top three of the rankings. Medvedev has a chance to inch closer to the number 1 rankings if Djokovic is out early, Matteo Berrettini can enter the top five if he can reach deep in the event. Andrey Rublev is still looking for a Masters 1000 title as he has reached two finals this year.

Djokovic has won the most titles here with five wins including a hat trick of titles from 2013- 2015. He won his last title in 2019 defeating Denis Shapovalov in the final and will be looking to win a 6th title in his comeback. Since 1986, only three left handers have won the event and Greg Rusedski was the last one to win it in 1998. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was the last Frenchman to win it as he had lifted the title in 2008 and was also the last one to reach the final in 2011.

Jannik Sinner now has chances of qualifying in the year end championships if he performs well in France. Sinner and Casper Ruud are now level in points as Hubert Hurkacz is just behind them both. The event has a history of players jumping up the rankings to qualify for the season ending championship with the most memorable one coming in 2017 when Jack Sock won the event which saw his rankings jump from 24 to 9 and qualified for the Nitto ATP finals.

Cameron Norrie had won in Indian Wells and will be looking to win here as Rusedski was also a left handed player from Britain. Norrie is just behind Hubert in the race to the season finals and both of them fell early at Vienna. This year there are a handful of players who can spring a surprise and climb up the rankings to enter the top eight.

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