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Norrie stuns Alcaraz in Paris, snaps Spaniard's 17-match Masters 1000 winning streak

  • Posted: Oct 28, 2025

Cameron Norrie earned his first win against a World No. 1 on Tuesday at the Rolex Paris Masters, where he shocked a below-par Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round in the French capital.

Alcaraz was competing for the first time since he won his Tour-leading eighth title of the season in Tokyo in late September and was far from his best in his eighth Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Norrie (5-3 in Alcaraz’s favour). The top seed committed 54 unforced errors and uncharacteristically struggled with his timing and footwork for large periods.

Despite winning the first set, Alcaraz was continuously searching for a level that never arrived and he had a lively conversation with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero courtside after he dropped the second set. The defeat ends Alcaraz’s 17-match winning streak at ATP Masters 1000 events, dating back to Miami in March, when he also fell in his opening match. The Spaniard lifted trophies in Monte-Carlo, Rome and Cincinnati.

“Massive, so big for me,” Norrie said on what the victory means to him. “I have been coming back from my injury. Last year, I lost first round of qualies here. I have just tried to enjoy my tennis in the second half of the year and I was able to do that and to get a win like this, the biggest of my career, my first over a World No. 1 and especially against the most confident player in the world right now, with Sinner combined. I am just so pleased with the way I did it. I had a lot of chances and had to keep pushing and going for more and I was able to stay tough and get the win, so I am really pleased.”

Alcaraz could now cede top spot in the PIF ATP Rankings this week after losing just his eighth match of the season. If Jannik Sinner wins the title in Paris, he will return to World No. 1 for the first time since the US Open.

In the battle for ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours, Alcaraz remains in a strong position, though. He currently leads the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, a key indicator of the year-end rankings, by 2,040 points.

With his upset win, Norrie defeated a World No. 1 for the first time in his fifth attempt. The British lefty is into the round of 16 at a Masters 1000 event for the first time since Rome in 2023 and has equalled his best result in Paris (R3, 2021). The 30-year-old, who won his lone Masters 1000 crown in Indian Wells in 2021, raised his fist into the air after sealing victory on his second match point before he turned to his box to celebrate.

“I played a really, really good first set. I thought it was close. He just took his chances and I didn’t,” Norrie said. “I wanted to keep pushing and honestly, it was such a physical match. I have been doing some workouts with my fitness coach Vasek and I was telling my team that this is even tougher than the conditioning sessions with Vasek and he makes them tough sessions. So I think I felt quite comfortable with that and I just wanted to keep pushing him and I saw him talking with his team a lot and that gave me some confidence.”

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While Alcaraz is known for being one of the game’s best shotmakers, it was Norrie who stole the early spotlight, nailing a backhand flick passing shot on the fourth point of the match.

With both players looking to move forward and dictate play, a crucial moment came at 2-2 in the opening set. Norrie double faulted at deuce, opening the door for Alcaraz, who then converted his first break point by hammering a forehand crosscourt into the Briton’s backhand. After winning the opening set, Alcaraz struggled in the second set. The Spaniard was unable to find any rhythm in the baseline exchanges and could not deal with the British lefty’s heavy topspin forehand, with Norrie forcing a decider.

The Spaniard had a chat with Ferrero ahead of the third set, with both seemingly voicing their thoughts about the performance. Alcaraz’s timing was off in the third set and he lost his serve in the seventh game of the set when a pumped-up Norrie fired a backhand pass crosscourt. With the pressure on, Norrie fended off two break points in the following game, according to ATP Infosys Stats, and held his nerve to triumph after two hours and 22 minutes.

“That 4-3 game was crucial,” World No. 31 Norrie said. “I saved a couple of break points there and then when I went to serve for the match, I actually went for a walk with my coach this morning and we talked through serving for a match and what I need to tell myself because I was so, so tight serving for the match against Baez yesterday. I was 0/40 on my serve but managed to get it. I told myself I deserved to be in this moment and want to be here, so I felt quite relaxed with that and it was a nice walk and a very important walk.”

Norrie will next face a wild card, Valentin Vacherot or Arthur Rinderknech, who are cousins. Vacherot capped his fairytale run at this month’s Rolex Shanghai Masters with a championship victory against Rinderknech, a fitting finish for the Hollywood-worthy story. Vacherot, then World No. 204, became the lowest-ranked ATP Masters 1000 champion in history (since 1990).

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Norrie is the third player in tournament history to upset the top seed in the opening round in Paris. Julien Benneteau beat Roger Federer in 2009 and Marc Rosset upset Pete Sampras in 1996.

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Alcaraz, De Minaur, Zverev finish atop ATP 500 Bonus Pool standings

  • Posted: Oct 28, 2025

A dramatic week of action in Vienna and Basel shaped the final standings in the 2025 ATP 500 Bonus Pool, with six players claiming a share of the $3 million on offer.

Carlos Alcaraz had already clinched first place and at least $1 million in bonus money after winning the Tokyo title in September. The Spaniard earned a total of 1,930 PIF ATP Rankings points at the ATP 500 level, also lifting trophies at Rotterdam and Queen’s Club.

But the race for the rest of the top six places went down to the wire, with Alex de Minaur, Alexander Zverev, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Jannik Sinner all making deep runs last week to strengthen their positions in the standings. Andrey Rublev rounded out the top six, fuelled by his title in Doha and runner-up finish in Hamburg.

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ATP 500 Bonus Pool Standings

Player Points
1) Carlos Alcaraz  1,930
2) Alex de Minaur  1,430
3) Alexander Zverev  1,330
4) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina  1,240
5) Jannik Sinner  1,050
6) Andrey Rublev  1,030

De Minaur’s run to the Vienna semi-finals helped him hold off Zverev, who reached the final at the same event. Both players fell to Sinner, who surged into the top six with his title run. Sinner also won the Beijing title in October, with his two trophy runs accounting for 1,000 of his 1,050 points. The other 50 points came from his opening-round win in Halle in June.

Basel finalist Davidovich Fokina stayed ahead of Sinner and vaulted past Rublev with his run, which came to an end against Joao Fonseca. The Brazilian claimed his biggest career title on Sunday, his first at the ATP 500 level.

The ATP 500 Bonus Pool more than doubled for 2025. Last year, $1.34 million was distributed to five players with the most points earned in the ATP 500 category.

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Nicolas Mahut: A career built on heart, spirit & lasting memories

  • Posted: Oct 28, 2025

Across 25 years on the ATP Tour, Nicolas Mahut crafted a career that any player would envy. Five Grand Slam doubles titles, reaching No. 1 in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings, and a Davis Cup victory for France.

Among the countless memories, one match still stands out — not for a trophy, but for its place in tennis history. Fifteen years on, Mahut can still smile when people ask if he beat John Isner in their record-breaking 2010 Wimbledon epic, which stretched over three days and lasted 11 hours and five minutes.

“It will stay somehow in both categories and that’s not a bad thing. It was both a painful moment and a moment that felt quite suspended,” said Mahut. “It is one of my biggest memories, inevitably. At the start, it did bother me a lot because I was tired of being the handsome loser.”

The Frenchman’s 70-68 fifth-set loss to Isner once felt like a burden. A reminder of coming so close, but ending up on the losing side of one of tennis’ most talked-about matches. But time and perspective have given Mahut peace. He even wrote a book about that extraordinary experience, one that helped him turn heartbreak into strength.

<img alt=”Nicolas Mahut, John Isner” style=”width:100%;” src=”/-/media/images/news/2025/10/28/11/35/mahut-isner-retirement-tribute-2025.jpg?w=100%25″ />John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut in the longest match in history. Photo: Glyn Kirk/Getty Images. 

“I now enjoy talking about that match because it was a crazy experience,” Mahut said. “It brought me a lot as a player and as a man. But I can be associated with that match and I can talk about it easily because I know that after that… I managed to win.”

And win he did. Mahut went on to capture 37 tour-level doubles titles, including two Nitto ATP Finals crowns and five major titles with longtime partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert, ascending to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings.

“That’s a source of pride. I perhaps wasn’t strong enough to leave my mark on the tennis world through my record, but I found a way to be associated, for eternity, with Wimbledon, which for me is the greatest [tournament] in the world,” Mahut, who won Wimbledon in 2016, humbly said.

“When I went this year with my son, walking through the aisles, he saw his name after all, because it’s also his. It gives me a little pride and ultimately there’s nothing more beautiful for me.”

That sense of pride and completion surrounded Mahut’s farewell this week at the Rolex Paris Masters, where he played his final match alongside good friend Grigor Dimitrov — a 6-4, 5-7, 10-4 defeat to Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin on Tuesday afternoon.

“We always wanted to do a few double sessions together throughout the last years, but I was honestly never really able to commit,” Dimitrov said of Mahut. “It was the right time. It was the last tournament for him and it made sense. I have a very sentimental relationship with him.

“For so many years, we played against each other. We competed more than once on such a big occasion. So it’s safe to say that it’s a good ending for him.”

Although his doubles achievements stand tall, Mahut was also a formidable singles player. He earned 181 tour-level wins and lifted four ATP Tour trophies, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, triumphing in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (2013, ‘15, ‘16) and Newport (2013).

Armed with a precise serve and slick volleys, Mahut’s attacking instincts made him a threat on fast courts. That translated seamlessly to his later doubles success. Alongside Herbert, he built one of the most accomplished partnerships of the modern era, becoming one of only eight teams to complete the career Grand Slam in men’s doubles.

<img alt=”Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Nicolas Mahut” style=”width:100%;” src=”/-/media/images/news/2025/10/28/11/47/herbert-mahut-retirement-tribute-2025.jpg” />Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert triumph at the Nitto ATP Finals in 2021. Photo: Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour

“Being able to win Grand Slams was for me one of the best memories,” Mahut said. “That’s what I will remember. Beyond the titles, the trophies that I may have, it’s also ultimately everything that happened in order for me to achieve those trophies and victories.

“It’s all the doubts, the questioning, the mistakes I made. That is ultimately what makes a career rich, and mine is very rich in that regard.”

This richness was celebrated in moving fashion in Paris, when his longtime sponsor, Lacoste, surprised him at dawn on the new centre court at La Défense Arena. Over the years, Mahut had saved each polo shirt from every collection since the second year of his partnership with the brand — around 60 in total.

“On Saturday, Lacoste surprised me. I wasn’t aware. I came in the morning, and on the centre court at 6 a.m. there was no one there,” Mahut said. “When I arrived, they had set them [the polos] up on mannequins around the court. Already the fact of experiencing this, to see again some polos that I wore during certain victories, reminded me of memories.”

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Mahut’s love affair with tennis began long before his first ATP Tour match. It started in 1991, when a nine-year-old boy in France watched his country lift the Davis Cup trophy. More than two decades later, his dream of replicating that feat became a reality.

In 2017, Mahut won all three of his doubles rubbers during France’s title run and finally held the Davis Cup trophy in his hands.

“It has guided my entire career,” Mahut said of the Davis Cup. “That’s why I wanted to play, because it made me dream. I wanted to be a tennis player after watching the Davis Cup in 1991. That’s what made me want to do it, and I didn’t know what I would have to do.

“However, when I saw them win in ’91 in Lyon, I thought, ‘This is what I want to do, this is what I want to win’, without understanding the effort I would have to put in to make it happen. And in the end, I ended up having the cup at home.”

From the boy who fell in love with tennis watching France win the Davis Cup, to the man who stood atop the world in doubles, Nicolas Mahut’s journey has come full circle. His career — rich in perseverance, humility and joy — is one of both inspiration and heart.

As the curtain falls at the Rolex Paris Masters, Mahut bids farewell not defined by any scoreline, but by a lifetime of grace, grit, and the quiet satisfaction of a dream fulfilled.

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Norrie eager for Alcaraz test: 'I'm going to take it to him'

  • Posted: Oct 28, 2025

Cameron Norrie is looking to end his season on a high for the second straight year, and there’s no greater test than facing the No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, Carlos Alcaraz.

The 30-year-old Briton will take on Alcaraz in the second round of the Rolex Paris Masters on Tuesday, four months after falling to the Spaniard in straight sets in their Wimbledon quarter-final. This time, under the bright lights of La Defense Arena, Norrie is hoping for a rather different outcome.

“It’s a match to enjoy. He’s one of the two best players in the world, between him and Jannik [Sinner],” Norrie told ATPTour.com. “I’m going to take it to him… I always have battles with him, so I’m looking forward to that.”

Norrie arrives in the second round after grinding through a nervy opener against Sebastian Baez on Monday. His 6-3, 6-4 win featured six breaks of serve, using the match as valuable court time to settle into the new conditions at the ATP Masters 1000 event’s new home.

“I was a little bit nervous, but it’s a nice new feeling to be playing here in La Défense,” said Norrie, the current World No. 31. “I think those are the exact matches you want to be playing — when you’re a bit nervous and then you come through it — so that’s nice.

“It’s good to work on [the nerves] in a real-life match scenario when you are the favourite to win and you have to perform. I was able to do that in some big moments, so I enjoyed that.”

After dismantling Norrie at SW19, Alcaraz currently leads their Lexus ATP Head2Head series 5-2, but the Briton has reason to believe this time around. Players have noted a noticeable change in court speed — a factor Norrie believes could bring his heavy topspin forehand into play.

“For sure I like it. I remember last year it was so quick I couldn’t make too many balls,” Norrie said of the conditions. “It suits my game well and the ball’s bouncing up a little bit more than I remember. It was always pretty low here before, so that’s really good for my forehand and I can get some good revs on it.”

Still, facing Alcaraz is rarely simple. The 22-year-old boasts a Tour-leading eight titles this year, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, and arrives refreshed for his first ATP Tour event since winning the Tokyo title.

“Especially on this court, where the ball is bouncing a lot, I’m going to have to vary it a lot and be ready for anything,” Norrie said. “He’s got a very complete game and is also one of the most confident guys at the moment, so I’m going to have to play my best to have a chance.

“I’m going to leave that all behind and go on and play. For sure [time for some revenge], he chopped me pretty easily at Wimbledon so I’m going to have to step up my level to have a chance with him.”

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Norrie’s 2024 season was disrupted by a forearm injury that forced him to miss the Paris Olympics and the US Open, but he found form in the final event of the year to reach the final of the ATP 250 in Metz.

Now, after a 2025 campaign that has featured a Top 10 win over Lorenzo Musetti in Washington, Norrie will put his grit and adaptability against the very best. A win for the former World No. 8 would be a statement.

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How Sinner can retake World No. 1 from Alcaraz in Paris

  • Posted: Oct 28, 2025

Jannik Sinner has an opportunity to reclaim World No. 1 from Carlos Alcaraz this week at the Rolex Paris Masters.

Alcaraz took the spot from his rival after winning the US Open and has held it since. The Italian can return the favour at the final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season… at least for now.

Sinner must win the title to have a chance of returning to World No. 1 next Monday. If the 24-year-old lifts the trophy and Alcaraz does not reach the semi-finals, No. 1 will change hands.

PIF ATP Live Rankings (entering Paris)

 Paris Result  Carlos Alcaraz  Jannik Sinner
 R32  11,250  10,510
 R16  11,340  10,600
 QF  11,440  10,700
 SF  11,640  10,900
 Finalist  11,890  11,150
 Champion  12,240  11,500

If Sinner does not claim his first Masters 1000 title of the season, he does not have a chance of returning to No. 1. Alcaraz can guarantee he will retain No. 1 by advancing to the semi-finals.

No matter what happens this week, Alcaraz remains in firm control of the battle for ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours. The Spaniard currently leads the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, a barometer for the year-end No. 1 battle, by 2,040 points.

Sinner, whose opening opponent in France will be Zizou Bergs, must move to within 1,750 points by the end of the Rolex Paris Masters to have any chance of claiming a second year-end No. 1 finish. There are ATP 250 events in Athens and Metz, which Alcaraz and Sinner have not entered, and then the Nitto ATP Finals, where an undefeated champion would earn 1,500 points.

Alcaraz begins his tournament on Tuesday when he takes on Cameron Norrie in the second round.

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What were the Paris tennis results?

  • Posted: Oct 28, 2025

Day 1 of the 2025 Rolex Paris Masters saw 2018 champion Karen Khachanov, Andrey Rublev, Alexander Bublik and Grigor Dimitrov win their first-round matches on Monday.

Khachanov eased past Ethan Quinn and Rublev defeated Jacob Fearnley. Bublik moved past Alexei Popyrin. 2023 finalist Dimitrov, competing in his first match since Wimbledon, defeated home favourite Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.

View all the results from Monday below.

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Results – Monday, 27 October 2025

Men’s Singles – Round of 56

[WC] Arthur Cazaux (FRA) d Luciano Darderi (ITA) 76(5) 76(4)
[WC] Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) d Fabian Marozsan (HUN) 76(5) 76(4)
[12] Andrey Rublev d [Q] Jacob Fearnley (GBR) 61 64
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) d Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) 76(5) 61
[10] Karen Khachanov d [Q] Ethan Quinn (USA) 61 61
Flavio Cobolli (ITA) d Tomas Machac (CZE) 61 64
Cameron Norrie (GBR) d Sebastian Baez (ARG) 63 64
[Q] Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) d [WC] Terence Atmane (FRA) 64 26 64
[13] Alexander Bublik (KAZ) d Alexei Popyrin (AUS) 64 63
Alexandre Muller (FRA) d Brandon Nakashima (USA) 62 75
Daniel Altmaier (GER) d Marcos Giron (USA) 62 76(5)
Learner Tien (USA) d Nuno Borges (POR) 62 76(7)
Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) d [Q] Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 63 63
Zizou Bergs (BEL) d Alex Michelsen (USA) 63 26 62
Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) d [LL] Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) 64 16 76(2)
Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) d [Q] Sebastian Korda (USA) 62 63

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