Rolex Paris Masters Tournament Information

About the Rolex Paris Masters

The final Masters 1000 Series event of the season takes place on indoor hard courts at the AccorHotels Arena as the Rolex Paris Masters is played in early November.

In addition to being the last regular ATP tournament of the season for many players – the only events which follow are the Next Gen ATP Finals, the ATP Finals and the Davis Cup – the Rolex Paris Masters is usually the battleground on which the last few places in the eight-man ATP Finals field are decided. It’s also been the tournament where the year-end world no. 1 ranking has been decided on more than one occasion.

The Paris Masters had its beginnings as the French Covered Court Championships, which was played at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin from 1968-1982, during which period it numbered Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith and Ilie Nastase among its champions.

In 1986 the tournament moved to the venue now known as the AccorHotels Arena in Bercy, a suburb of Paris. It was known as the Paris Open until the Masters system began in 2000. When the Masters 1000 Series systen was inaugurated in 2009, Paris became the only one of nine Masters events to be played indoors. It is the second-biggest indoor event of the men’s season, behind the Nitto ATP Finals, the season-ending championships.

This means that Paris is the site of two of the biggest tournaments of the year: The French Open and the Paris Masters. There are four players who have won both the French Open and the Paris Masters, a particularly impressive feat because they are played on such different surfaces: Ilie Nastase won both in 1973; Andre Agassi won both in 1999; Roger Federer won the French Open in 2009 and the Paris Masters in 2011; and Novak Djokovic had won the Paris Masters four times before winning the French Open in 2016.

Djokovic holds the record for most Paris Masters titles with five to his credit, as well as for most matches won and most finals reached (six). He won the tournament three years in a row from 2013-15, compiling a 17-match winning streak before losing to Marin Cilic in the quarterfinals in 2016.

Only three editions of the Paris Masters has been won by a French player. Guy Forget beat Pete Sampras to win in 1991, and Sebastian Grosjean defeated Yevgeny Kafelnikov in 2001. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the Paris Masters in 2008 and also finished runner-up to Federer in 2011; Gael Monfils made consecutive finals in 2009-10.

In recent years, Andy Murray, Jack Sock and Russians Karen Khachanov and Daniil Medvedev have all claimed the title at the Rolex Paris Masters.

ATP Paris Masters Ranking Points

Rolex Paris Masters Champions

Here is a complete list of players who have won singles titles at the Rolex Paris Masters in the Open Era.

Rolex Paris Masters tennis is live from the AccorHotels Arena from 1-7 November 2021, with play starting around 10am local/9am GMT. Bookmaker bet365 are offering customers the opportunity to watch a live stream of the matches alongside in-play betting.

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