By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday October 25, 2024
The last Masters 1000 event of 2024 will take place in Paris next week, and the draw has been released with World No.1 Jannik Sinner and World No.2 Carlos Alcaraz anchoring the table.
Novak Djokovic, seven-time and defending champion, has elected not to play this year.
Sinner will face either Ben Shelton or Felix Auger-Aliassime after a first-round bye; Alcaraz will take on Nicolas Jarry or a qualifier/ special exempt.
Sinner would face the following path to the final if the seeds hold:
R2: Shelton/ Auger-Aliassime
R16: [13] Rune
QF: [5] Fritz
SF: [3] Zverev
Alcaraz would face the following, if the seeds hold:
R2: Jarry
R16: [15] Humbert
QF: [7] Ruud
SF: [4] Medvedev
Neither Sinner (best performance: Round of 16) or Alcaraz (best performance: 2022 quarterfinal) have been to a semifinal or beyond in Paris.
The Race to Turin will conclude after the tournament, with several players still hoping to qualify with a big run in Paris. Among them, Alex de Minaur, who is currently closing in on the eighth spot as a semifinalist in Vienna, as well as 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 round, and is in Sinner’s top quarter of the draw.
Casper Ruud, currently in seventh in the Race to Turin, will face either Jordan Thompson or a qualifier/ special exempt. Tommy Paul, currently 11th in the Race to Turin, faces Adrian Mannarino in round one. Paul is in Carlos Alcaraz’s bottom quarter.
Cutoff for the main draw is 44 – Italy’s Matteo Berrettini, who faces Alexei Popyrin in round one.
See the full draw here: