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Alcaraz knows his way in Paris

This Friday the draw for the last Masters 1000 of the year was drawn

October 25, 2024

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, the first seeds of the Rolex Paris Masters 1000, will have very tough debuts in the second round of the Parisian competition.

The No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings will clash against the winner of two members of the Top 25: the American Ben Shelton and the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime, who leads the Lexus ATP HeadToHead 1-0 between them. The Italian leads his history with the 22-year-old left-hander 4-1, but loses his history with the 24-year-old right-hander 0-2.

While Alcaraz, No. 2 in the PIF ATP Rankings, could start against the Chilean Nicolás Jarry, who will debut against a player from the qualifying phase. The Spaniard leads 2-1 head-to-head with the South American tennis player, No. 34 in the rankings.

Both players, multiple Masters 1000 champions (Alcaraz five times and Sinner four times), will seek to vindicate themselves this year in Paris after falling halfway in previous editions in the last tournament of the category of the season.

Sinner, a seven-time champion in 2024, has not made it past the round of 16 and has only won one match in his career in Paris, a tournament in which he debuted by losing precisely to Alcaraz in 2021, when the Lexus ATP HeadToHead rivalry between the two was born.

The Murcian, for his part, reached the quarterfinals in 2022 to mark his best result so far in the tournament, but a year ago he suffered one of the most surprising defeats of his career when he fell to Roman Safiullin in the premiere.

Other matches to follow, but in the first round, include that of the Italian Matteo Arnaldi against the Dane Holger Rune, while the American Frances Tiafoe will clash with the local Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.

In addition, the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo will face the Australian Álex de Miñaur, and the Portuguese Nuno Borges, and the Argentine Mariano Navone will play against the Australian Álex de Miñaur.