Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday, October 25, 2024
The final Masters 1000 tournament in 2024 will be held in Paris next week, and the draw for the world’s No. 1 has been revealed. Yannick Sinner And world No.2 Carlos Alcaraz Table fixation.
Novak DjokovicThe seven-time champion and defending champion has decided not to compete this year.
Sinner will face either Ben Shelton or Felix Auger-Aliassime after a first-round bye. Alcaraz will face either Nicolas Jarry or a qualifier/special exemption.
If the seed holds, Sinner will face the following path to the finals:
R2: Shelton/ Auger-Aliassime
R16: [13] rune
QF: [5] fritz
SF: [3] Zverev
Alcaraz will face the following situation if the seed is maintained:
R2: Jaeri
R16: [15] humbert
QF: [7] rood
SF: [4] Medvedev
Neither Sinner (best result: round of 16) nor Alcaraz (best result: quarterfinals, 2022) have ever advanced further than the semifinals in Paris.
The Race to Turin is scheduled to conclude after the tournament, with several riders still hoping to make it big in Paris. Among them are Alex de Minaur, who is currently a semi-finalist in Vienna and is closing in on eighth, and Grigor Dimitrov, who will need a big push to leapfrog De Minaur and Andrey Rublev.
Eighth-seeded Dimitrov will face either Tomas Martin Etcheverry or Zhang Zhizhen after a bye. Ninth-seeded De Minaur will face Argentina’s Mariano Navone in the opening match, placing him in the top quarter of Sinner’s draw.
Casper Ruud, currently ranked 7th in the Race to Turin, will face either Jordan Thompson or a qualifier/special exemption. Tommy Paul, currently 11th in the Race to Turin, will face Adrian Mannarino in the first round. Paul is in the bottom quarter of Carlos Alcaraz.
The cutoff for the main draw is 44. Italy’s Matteo Berrettini will face Alexei Popyrin in the first round.
Check out the full draw here.
The final Masters 1000 event draw for 2024 is as follows: — fly pic.twitter.com/7bAzQeZq5n
— Tennis Now (@Tennis_Now) October 25, 2024
