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What time is the Paris final between Sinner & Auger-Aliassime?

Jannik Sinner and Felix Auger-Aliassime are set to face off in the 2025 Rolex Paris Masters final, which will take place Sunday, not before 3 p.m. CEST/9 a.m. EDT.

Sinner, the No. 2 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, is level with Auger-Aliassime at 2-2 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series. The 24-year-old won their past two meetings, in Cincinnati and the US Open earlier this year.

The Italian is on a 25-match winning streak on indoor hard courts and is aiming to clinch his first crown in Paris and 23rd overall. Should he win, he will reclaim the top spot in the PIF ATP Rankings from Carlos Alcaraz.

Auger-Aliassime will be competing in his second ATP Masters 1000 final and is aiming to win his fourth title of the season. The Canadian currently holds the eighth spot in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin and will qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals should he defeat Sinner in Sunday’s final.

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Scouting Report: Djokovic, Musetti lead Athens field, Turin hopeful Felix in Metz

An ATP 250 doubleheader brings the 2025 PIF ATP Live Race To Turin to a close this week, when Athens and Metz play host to high-stakes indoor hard-court action.

ATP Tour tennis returns to Athens for the first time since 1994 with the Vanda Pharmaceuticals Hellenic Championship, where former No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings Novak Djokovic headlines the field. Djokovic’s fellow Top 10 star Lorenzo Musetti seeks a deep run in Athens to try and claim the final open spot at the upcoming Nitto ATP Finals.

Meanwhile Musetti’s only rival for that Turin place, Felix Auger-Aliassime, is the top seed at the Moselle Open in Metz. ATPTour.com looks ahead at five things to watch at each event.

FIVE THINGS TO WATCH IN ATHENS
1) Djokovic Returns To Action: The 100-time tour-level champion Djokovic competes for the first time since reaching the Shanghai semi-finals last month. The 38-year-old is the top seed in Athens, where he will be aiming to settle quickly into his indoor groove ahead of the Nitto ATP Finals. Djokovic starts his title bid in Greece against Alejandro Tabilo or Adam Walton.

2) Musetti Plays For Turin Spot: After his early exit at the Rolex Paris Masters, Musetti will aim for a big finish to his 2025 PIF ATP Live Race To Turin in Athens. The Italian, who is ninth in the Live Race as he chases a Nitto ATP Finals debut on home soil, trails eighth-placed Auger-Aliassime by 160 points, although the Canadian could establish an unassailable lead as early as Sunday by winning the Paris final against Jannik Sinner.

3) Stars Eye Big Finish To 2025: A host of players will aim to cap their 2025 season in style in Athens. Third seed Luciano Darderi chases his fourth title of the year, and his first away from the clay, while fourth seed Brandon Nakashima seeks his first trophy of the season. Nakashima leads a strong squad of Americans in the draw that also includes Reilly Opelka and Sebastian Korda.

4) Wild Card Wawrinka: Still going strong at 40 years old, Stan Wawrinka will close his 24th season as a pro by competing as a wild card in Athens. The Swiss former World No. 3 takes on Botic van de Zandschulp in his opening match, with the winner to take on Musetti in the second round.

5) Doumbia/Reboul Lead Doubles Field: Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul seek their second ATP 250 title of the season in Athens. The French duo enters as the top seeds in the Greek capital, where its rivals include second seeds Francisco Cabral/Lucas Miedler and home wild cards Pavlos Tsitsipas/Petros Tsitsipas, brothers of Stefanos Tsitsipas.

FIVE THINGS TO WATCH IN METZ
1) In-form Felix: Long renowned for his prowess on indoor hard courts, Auger-Aliassime arrives in Metz in excellent form. The Canadian won his third title of 2025 under the roof in Brussels earlier this month, before reaching the quarter-finals in Basel and the final in Paris. If he defeats Sinner in the title match in the French capital, he will secure a return to the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time since 2022.

2) Can Bublik Cap Career-best Year?: Although Alexander Bublik’s hopes of reaching Turin ended with semi-final defeat to Auger-Aliassime in Paris, the Kazakhstani has enjoyed a standout year on Tour. The 28-year-old will chase his fifth title of the season in Metz, where he reached the final in 2022.

3) Rinderknech Leads Home Charge: Sixth seed Arthur Rinderknech leads a set of 10 Frenchmen (not including qualifiers) in the Metz draw. Corentin Moutet is seeded eighth, with Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, Terence Atmane, Arthur Cazaux and Adrian Mannarino among the others aiming to ensure a home champion for the third consecutive year after Ugo Humbert’s 2023 triumph and Benjamin Bonzi’s 2024 title run.

4) Blockx In The Jeddah Hunt: Alexander Blockx is seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah, and the Belgian has the chance to take a big step towards qualifying for the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF this week in Metz. Blockx is in the main draw in France via a Next Gen entry spot, part of the ATP’s Next Gen Accelerator pathway, which provides increased opportunities for players aged 20-and-under in the Top 250 of the PIF ATP Rankings.

5) Arends/Johnson Defend Doubles Crown: Sander Arends and Luke Johnson bid to complete a hat-trick of ATP Tour titles in 2025 by defending their title in Metz. The Hong Kong and Barcelona champions, seeded second, are joined in the draw in France by top seeds Andre Goransson and Jan Zielinski, while Quentin Halys and Pierre-Hugues Herbert are among the home favourites in the field.

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Ruthless Sinner beats Zverev to reach Paris final

A ruthless Jannik Sinner takes apart Alexander Zverev to reach the Paris Masters final and move within one win of regaining the world number one ranking.

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Swiatek dismantles Keys in 61 minutes at WTA Finals

Iga Swiatek produces a dominant start in her bid for a second WTA Finals title, dismantling Madison Keys in just 61 minutes in Riyadh.

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Sinner surges to Paris final, cusp of reclaiming World No. 1

Jannik Sinner advanced to his maiden final at the Rolex Paris Masters on Saturday after he surged past a physically hampered Alexander Zverev 6-0, 6-1.

The second-seeded Italian was ruthless from start to finish, hitting 23 winners to just 12 unforced errors as he improved to 5-4 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Zverev, who won the title in Paris last year. Zverev saved two match points to overcome Daniil Medvedev on Friday night, but he struggled with his movement and looked out of breath at various points during his semi-final clash with Sinner.

In top form from start to finish! 👏@janniksin knocks out Zverev 6-0 6-1 to reach his first final in Paris!@RolexPMasters | #RolexParisMasters pic.twitter.com/kw9qiJEu1p

— ATP Tour (@atptour) November 1, 2025

“When you drop the physicality like he did, you cannot find the full power on serve,” said Sinner, who won 13 of 16 second-serve return points, according to Infosys ATP Stats. “I’m happy to be in the final, but it’s not how you want to arrive. Playing against Sascha is always a special occasion, and today he was clearly not 100 per cent, we saw that.

“He was struggling physically. He won an incredible match yesterday, two match points down… Making the final in Vienna, coming here and making the semis again, it’s an incredible run, but we all hope that he gets better and fit for Turin.”

By extending his winning streak on indoor hard courts to 25 matches, Sinner set a championship-match meeting with Felix Auger-Aliassime. The 24-year-old Italian is into his ninth ATP Masters 1000 final, and third of the season after falling short to Carlos Alcaraz in Rome and Cincinnati.

Zverev now faces a quick turnaround to be fit for his campaign at the Nitto ATP Finals, where he is a two-time champion. He owns a 54-23 record this year, highlighted by his title in Munich and run to his third major final at the Australian Open.

Sinner is just 100 points behind Alcaraz in the PIF ATP Live Rankings and would reclaim the World No. 1 spot if he wins the title on Sunday. He is level with Auger-Aliassime at 2-2 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series, having won their two latest meetings in Cincinnati and the US Open this year.

“He plays incredible tennis at the moment, he has improved a lot,” Sinner said of Auger-Aliassime. “Especially in the past months, he has found his game again. I’m looking forward to it tomorrow, it’s a great occasion for both of us. I’m very happy for Felix, he is one of the nicest guys we have on Tour. It’s going to be a very difficult match.”

Sinner has reached the final in nine of the 11 tournaments in which he has competed in this year, including victories at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. It marks the second consecutive year he has reached nine finals, and he has now tied Alcaraz for the most Top-10 wins in 2025 (13).

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Rohan Bopanna announces retirement

Rohan Bopanna, the former No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings, announced his retirement on Saturday.

The Indian star amassed 26 tour-level doubles titles during his career, including the Australian Open in 2024 with Mattew Ebden. With that triumph, Bopanna rose to World No. 1 for the first time and became the oldest man to do so at 43 years.

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“How do you bid farewell to something that gave your life its meaning? After 20 unforgettable years on tour, however, it’s my time… I’m officially hanging up my racquet,” the 45-year-old Bopanna wrote on Instagram.

“Tennis hasn’t been just a game for me – It has given me purpose when I was lost, strength when I was broken and belief when the world doubted me.”

Bopanna won doubles titles with 15 different players across his career, which began in 2003. He won his first crown with Eric Butorac in 2008 in Los Angeles and went on to accumulate 539 tour-level wins, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

In 2010, he reached his first major final at the US Open with Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and then fell short at the same stage in New York in 2023 with Ebden. However, at the following Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, Bopanna and Ebden turned heartbreak into glory by winning their first major title.

Bopanna was also a runner-up at the Nitto ATP Finals in 2012 and 2015 with Mahesh Bhupathi and Florin Mergea, respectively. The Indian won his lone mixed doubles Grand Slam title at Roland Garros in 2017 with Gabriela Dabrowski.

He most recently competed at the Rolex Paris Masters, where he partnered Alexander Bublik in a 5-7, 6-2, 8-10 first-round defeat to John Peers and JJ Tracy.

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Auger-Aliassime blunts Bublik in Paris, charges into Turin qualifying spot

One of the ATP Tour’s most prolific indoor performers is showing no sign of slowing down at the Rolex Paris Masters.

Felix Auger-Aliassime on Saturday continued his late-2025 purple patch with an impressive 7-6(3), 6-4 semi-final victory against Alexander Bublik in the French capital. The ninth-seeded Canadian was clinical with his chances in his 96-minute victory to secure a spot in his second ATP Masters 1000 final and simultaneously replace Lorenzo Musetti in the final qualification spot for the Nitto ATP Finals.

Got the job done 💼@felixtennis | @RolexPMasters | #RolexParisMasters pic.twitter.com/wdxg5SrqIN

— ATP Tour (@atptour) November 1, 2025

“I’m so happy. A Masters 1000 final sounds really good,” said Auger-Aliassime after reaching his second championship match at that level after Madrid 2024. “You don’t play those finals every week. Hopefully I can go all the way and get the title. In terms of today and even the past matches… You get into a Masters, and every match is tough.

“It’s a 56-draw and it is stacked. You wake up on a day and feel, ‘This guy is playing good, everybody is playing good’. So you’re always curious and bit nervous to see how your game is going to match up. I have deep self confidence in my game. I know what I can do against the best players in the world, but you still have to go and execute. Today I did really well and I’m happy with the result.”

As well as setting a championship-match clash with second seed Jannik Sinner or third seed Alexander Zverev in Paris, Auger-Aliassime also made a significant move in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin with his semi-final triumph. The 25-year-old has leapfrogged Musetti into eighth place, and he can wrap up the one remaining qualification spot at the Nitto ATP Finals by lifting the trophy in France on Sunday.

If Auger-Aliassime does not lift the Paris trophy, he will nonetheless head to next week’s Moselle Open in Metz with a 90-point lead over Musetti in the Live Race. Italy’s Musetti will also be in ATP 250 action next week in Athens.

“These are the matches you train for and play for,” said Auger-Aliassime, when asked how he would approach Sunday’s final against Sinner or Zverev in Paris. “It’s always great to play these guys and see how my game matches with theirs. I’ve played tennis for a long time. You are training all these years to improve.

“I’ve played some great opponents and tomorrow I have the chance to showcase it in front of everyone. I’m going to wake up ready. At the same time, with these guys, you have to be so sharp. Tactically, and with discipline. They don’t give you anything, so you have to be ready to play you’re A-game.”

Against Bublik, Auger-Aliassime clinched a tight first set that did not feature a break point by winning six of the final seven points in the tie-break. In contrast to the opener, the second set featured five breaks of serve: Bublik appeared to have responded well to the disappointment of dropping the first set and the Kazakhstani forged a 4-1 lead, but Auger-Aliassime stormed back with five straight games to prevail.

The Canadian finished the match having struck 31 winners, 17 of which came from his forehand wing. Against the big-serving Bublik, who was competing in his maiden Masters 1000 semi-final, Auger-Aliassime also clinically converted three of the four break points he earned, according to Infosys ATP Stats.

With his triumph at La Défense Arena, Auger-Aliassime improved to 4-2 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Bublik. He has now won a Tour-leading 82 indoor matches this decade.

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Musetti chases Turin dream in Athens, Djokovic may face bogeyman

The ATP 250 in Athens next week could decide Lorenzo Musetti’s Nitto ATP Finals fate and feature an early test for 100-time tour-level titlist Novak Djokovic, providing several intriguing storylines for fans to follow at the Vanda Pharmaceuticals Hellenic Championship.

With one Nitto ATP Finals spot still up for grabs, Musetti is fighting to keep his hopes alive in a tight PIF ATP Live Race To Turin that could be decided in the final week of the season. Meanwhile, top-seeded Djokovic could open his campaign against a familiar foe — Alejandro Tabilo, one of three players to have faced the Serbian at least twice and not lost.

Musetti, eighth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, is aiming to make his Nitto ATP Finals debut and join countryman Jannik Sinner at the season finale on home soil.

Should ninth-placed Felix Auger-Aliassime win his semi-final match Saturday at the Rolex Paris Masters, the Canadian will move ahead of Musetti, adding weight to the 23-year-old’s Athens appearance. Musetti will begin against former No. 3 Stan Wawrinka or Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp.

Djokovic, competing for the first time since Shanghai, will face either Tabilo or Australian Adam Walton in his opening match. Tabilo beat the 100-time tour-level titlist Djokovic earlier this year in Monte-Carlo and last season in Rome. Djokovic holds a 35-11 season record, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

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Zverev saves 2 MPs to escape 'kryptonite' Medvedev in Paris

Alexander Zverev earned a memorable victory Friday when he saved two match points to oust rival Daniil Medvedev and keep his title defence hopes alive at the Rolex Paris Masters.

Zverev’s 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) victory ends his five-match skid against Medvedev and earns him a semi-final showdown against second seed Jannik Sinner, a rematch of last week’s Vienna final won by the Italian. Meanwhile, Medvedev’s chances of a Nitto ATP Finals bid are done.

“The thing I’m most pleased with is the match points saved, the way I continued being brave and in the important moments, winning the match myself,” Zverev said in his on-court interview.

From the start, a dialled-in Medvedev stuck to his trademark deep return position, which Zverev tried to counter early with serve-and-volleys or by using drop shots. Zverev, who fell in the eighth game and briefly held his left hamstring, switched his strategy to rely more on his firepower. He lifted the ante and began to test Medvedev from the baseline.

“I felt like in the beginning I was playing well, but I was playing very stupid tactically,” Zverev said. “I felt my shots, I felt like I could turn the match around because I was feeling really well with my shots, but again, I was playing very, very dumb. I changed a few things in my tactics and broke back. He helped me with a break break [at 1-0 in the second set].”

Facing two match points on serve at 4-5 in the decider, Zverev kept his cool, even when faced with a nervy sitting overhead that he put away. He would later miss a similar shot at 5/3 in the tie-break.

In the same game he twice saved match point, the 28-year-old won a crucial Deuce point with a 27-shot rally that ended with a net cord winner. Eventually sealing the win in a back-and-forth tie-break, Zverev laid on the court in relief after the two-hour, thirty-minute victory.

Pure power 💥@AlexZverev battles back from a set down v. Medvedev to set up a semi-final against Sinner 🍿@RolexPMasters | #RolexParisMasters pic.twitter.com/b2yptYboPv

— ATP Tour (@atptour) October 31, 2025

Zverev is now 8-14 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Medvedev and will next look to break his 4-4 tie with Sinner.

“Daniil is kind of my kryptonite, I don’t like playing him,” Zverev said with a laugh. “He’s somebody who has had my number for the last couple of years. I’m very pleased with the win for sure. Against Jannik, we had a fantastic match last Sunday. I’m happy to be on court with him again. Hopefully we share another great match.”

Zverev committed nine backhand unforced errors for the match, compared to Medvedev’s 23. But Medvedev held the advantage off the forehand side, crushing 19 winners to 12 unforced errors. Zverev hit 14 forehand winners and 21 unforced errors.

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Sinner beats Shelton to reach Paris semi-finals

Jannik Sinner moves a step closer to regaining world number one status with victory over Ben Shelton at the Paris Masters, while there are also wins for Alexander Bublik and Felix Auger-Aliassime.

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