By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Picture credit score: Garrett Ellwood/USTA/US Open
French shotmakers will carry dwelling type to the Rolex Paris Masters.
4 Frenchmen—Richard Gasquet, Gael Monfils, Adrian Mannarino and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard—have obtained main-draw wild playing cards for the Rolex Paris Masters.
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The Rolex Paris Masters is about for October 28-November third in Bercy.
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The wild card bulletins come a day after reigning Paris Indoors champion Novak Djokovic withdrew from Paris. Djokovic defeated rival Rafael Nadal to take third place eventually weekend’s Six Kings Slam exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
A two-time finalist in 2009 and 2010, Monfils will make his twelfth profession look on the Rolex Paris Masters, 20 years after his event debut as an adolescent.
Former world No. 7 Gasquet, who introduced he’ll retire after the 2025 Roland Garros, will play Bercy for the seventeenth time.