The Paris Masters 1000 ATP retains the six-time champion and world number one, the Serbian Novak Djokovicbut his victory over the Argentine Tomas Martín Etcheverry6-3 and 6-2, is an anomaly in the overall calculation of a tournament that hosts a scramble of favorites in just two rounds.
Many have made it home, others have to suffer through a combination of balls and courts that allow for long exchanges of blows, long and dramatic matches.
Three places are at stake for the ATP Finals in Turin, the masters tournament, which also adds spice to this ‘indoor’ hard court tournament. The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasthe German Alexander Zverev and the danish Holger Rune They are temporarily occupying the three tickets that remain to be distributed.
Tsitsipas went into the second round, as did Zverev who had to return against the Frenchman Ugo Humbert in a three-and-a-half-hour battle against an uncomfortable left-handed rival and a crowd trying to make the stage hell to protect its tennis player.
It’s still debuting runesreigning tournament champion and paired in the evening match with the Austrian Dominic Thiem.
The Pole keeps threatening to come in and leave one of them. Hubert Hurkaczrecent champion at the Shanghai Masters and has also reached the round of 16 in Paris, at the expense of the last Spaniard to bid farewell to the French capital, Roberto Bautista. By 6-3 and 6-2.
To the known victims, goodbye Tuesday Carlos AlcarazNo. 2, followed by No. 3, the Russian Daniel Medvedev, on Wednesday. Also in the premiere, in the second round. The Muscovite also had to face the French fans, with whom he has long had a relationship, both domestically and at Roland Garros.
Medvedev, somewhat bewildered, surrendered to the tireless Bulgarian Grigor DimitrovAlcaraz’s executioner in Shanghai.
Among the four top-10s that have already been eliminated, are Norwegian Holger Rune (8), who will lose that status in the next ranking, and the American Taylor Fritz (9), who also suffered an abdominal muscle injury that caused his retirement.
And the aforementioned Holger Rune and also the Italian remained in action Jannik Sinnerwho won the ATP 500 in Vienna on Sunday and had to close a long day, early on Thursday, in his duel with American Mackenzie McDonald.
At the top of the table he is still in charge Novak Djokovicwaiting for what will happen with Rune and Sinner and with De Miñaur and Andrey Rublev still in the competition.
The lower part is more damaged. Without Alcaraz and Medvedev, they remain Stefanos Tsitsipas (7) and Alexander Zverev (10)but they eliminate each other in the round of 16. Hurkacz (11) sees the most open path to the ATP Finals.
The round of 16 of Paris 2023
TOP PORTION OF PHOTO
Novak Djokovic (Srb/1)-Tallon Griekspoor (PB)
Daniel Altmaier (Ale)-Dominic Thiem (Aut/Q) or Holger Rune (Din/6)
Jannik Sinner (Ita/4) or Mackenzie McDonald (USA)-Alex de Miñaur (Aus/13)
Botic Van de Zandschulp (PB/Q)-Andrey Rublev (Rus/5)
LOWER PART OF THE FRAME
Francisco Cerúndolo (Arg)-Hubert Hurkacz (Pol/11)
Alexander Bublik (Kaz)-Grigor Dimitrov (Bul)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gre/7)-Alexanser Zverev (Ale/10)
Karen Khachanov (Rus/16)-Roman Safiullin (Rus/Q)
Source: La Verdad
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