{"id":149202,"date":"2021-10-30T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=149202"},"modified":"2021-11-01T21:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:32:13","slug":"rolex-paris-masters-draw-revealed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rolex-paris-masters-draw-revealed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Paris: Novak to face Fucsovics in R2, victorious start in doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singles draw has been made for the 2021 Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Seven weeks after runner-up finish in the US Open final, world no.1 Novak Djokovic returns to action in Bercy.<\/p>\n

The final ATP Masters 1000 tournament of the season is taking place in Paris from November 1 to November 7. Eight seeds (1-8) get BYE in the first round.<\/p>\n

Record five-time former champion Novak is no.1 seed and will open his quest for a sixth title in the second round against world no.40 Marton Fucsovics (H2H 3-0) on Tuesday. The Hungarian defeated Fabio Fognini (ITA) 6-1, 6-7, 7-6.
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Novak\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the competition are:<\/p>\n

3rd round: <\/strong>Gael Monfils (FRA, 15), Adrian Mannarino (FRA)
\nQuarter-finals: <\/strong>Andrey Rublev (RUS, 5), Cameron Norrie (GBR, 10)
\nSemi-finals: <\/strong>Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 3), Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 7), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 9)
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\nFinals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 2), Alexander Zverev (GER, 4), Casper Ruud (NOR, 6), Jannik Sinner (ITA, 8), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 16)<\/p>\n

It will be Novak\u2019s 15th appearance at the Paris Masters. The 34-year-old Serbian star won the event in 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019. Last year he did not take part.<\/p>\n

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Djokovic also signed up for doubles duty in the capital of France. He teamed up with countryman Filip Krajinovic to beat Australians Alex De Minaur and Luke Saville 4-6, 6-4, 10-7 in the first round. For a place in the quarter-finals, the Serbian duo will challenge no.6 seeds John Peers (AUS) and Filip Polasek (SVK).<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can download Nole 2021 November desktop calendar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photos: Profimedia, Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour
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The final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season is taking place in Paris from November 1 to November 7. Novak is a record five-time champion and will open his quest for a sixth title in the second round against Marton Fucsovics (HUN, ATP #40, H2H 3-0) on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":149193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101011267,101013019],"class_list":["post-149202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149202"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149332,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149202\/revisions\/149332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}