By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday October 25, 2024
The final Masters 1000 occasion of 2024 will happen in Paris subsequent week, and the draw has been launched with World No.1 Jannik Sinner and World No.2 Carlos Alcaraz anchoring the desk.
Novak Djokovic, seven-time and defending champion, has elected to not play this yr.
Sinner will face both Ben Shelton or Felix Auger-Aliassime after a first-round bye; Alcaraz will tackle Nicolas Jarry or a qualifier/ particular exempt.
Sinner would face the next path to the ultimate if the seeds maintain:Â
R2: Shelton/ Auger-Aliassime
R16: [13] RuneÂ
QF: [5] FritzÂ
SF: [3] ZverevÂ
Alcaraz would face the next, if the seeds maintain:Â
R2: JarryÂ
R16: [15] HumbertÂ
QF: [7] RuudÂ
SF: [4] MedvedevÂ
Neither Sinner (finest efficiency: Spherical of 16) or Alcaraz (finest efficiency: 2022 quarterfinal) have been to a semifinal or past in Paris.Â
The Race to Turin will conclude after the match, with a number of gamers nonetheless hoping to qualify with a giant run in Paris. Amongst them, Alex de Minaur, who’s at present closing in on the eighth spot as a semifinalist in Vienna, in addition to Grigor Dimitrov, who will want a giant push to leapfrog De Minaur and Andrey Rublev.
Eighth-seeded Dimitrov will face both Tomas Martin Etcheverry or Zhang Zhizhen after a bye. Ninth-seeded De Minaur will face Argentina’s Mariano Navone within the opening spherical, and is in Sinner’s prime quarter of the draw.
Casper Ruud, at present in seventh within the Race to Turin, will face both Jordan Thompson or a qualifier/ particular exempt. Tommy Paul, at present eleventh within the Race to Turin, faces Adrian Mannarino in spherical one. Paul is in Carlos Alcaraz’s backside quarter.
Cutoff for the primary draw is 44 – Italy’s Matteo Berrettini, who faces Alexei Popyrin in spherical one.
See the complete draw right here:
This is the draw for the final Masters 1000 occasion of 2024 — PARIS pic.twitter.com/7bAzQeZq5n
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