While the qualifications begin this Saturday in the capital, we finally know the table of Masters 1000 of Paris-Bercy which officially begins on Monday. The French public will perhaps quickly be entitled to a good poster since the world number 1 Novak Djokovic could cross the road of Gaël Monfils in the round of 16 and, in case of victory, that of the world number 5 Andrey Rublev.
Exempted from the first round, like the other seven top seeds, the Serbian who has not appeared on the circuit since his defeat in the final of the US Open in New York in mid-September, will face before that, in the second round, the winner of the match between the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (39th) and the Italian Fabio Fognini (36th).
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If we look even further for Djoko, he would have a lot to do in the semifinals, since the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (world number 3) as well as the young Canadian of 21 years Felix Auger-Aliassime are both in his game. table. There is also the Scotsman Andy Murray, who came down to 156th place in the world after several years marked by injuries, and who has received an invitation to participate in the Paris tournament.
The road is clearer for Rublev
In the other part of the table, all eyes will be on Daniil Medvedev, world number 2 and winner of the US Open in September. The Russian should enjoy an easy start to the tournament, before eventually returning to the phenomenon of the moment, the 18-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, in the quarter-finals. Quarter-finalist at Flushing Meadows, the student of Juan Carlos Ferrero never ceases to amaze, proof of this is his forceps victory over the Italian Matteo Berrettini on Friday in Vienna.
The road will be tough for Alcaraz, facing the French Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round before finding another hope of world tennis, the Italian Jannik Sinner (11th world). The world number 4, Alexander Zverev, also exempt from the first round, will start his tournament against the winner of the meeting between Dusan Lajovic and Mackenzie McDonald.