Health crisis requires, the draw for the Rolex Paris Masters took place entirely virtual this Saturday noon.
The matches, on the other hand, will be real from Monday on the courts of the Accor Arena.
Still looking for a first coronation in the east of the capital, Rafael Nadal, 13 times winner of Roland Garros, will be the No. 1 attraction of the tournament, which will be played entirely behind closed doors after beating his record for attendance last year (151,000 spectators).
The world n ° 2, who will start against the winner of the match Krajinovic-Lopez (Krajinovic was finalist, three years ago), benefits from a rather lenient table until the semi-final where he could find the German Zverev or the Russian Rublev, the man in (great) form at the end of the season.
The French will have a lot to do.
The draw is out!
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Starting with the guest Hugo Gaston, 20 years old, revelation of the last Roland-Garros and 162nd in the world, entry opponent to the Spaniard Carreno Busta, seeded n ° 9. After his recent victory in Antwerp, Ugo Humbert ( n ° 32 at ATP) will face the Norwegian Ruud (n ° 27) before perhaps challenging the Greek Tsitsipas, seeded n ° 2 of the Parisian Masters 1000.
Among the shocks of the first round, an attractive Auger-Aliassime - Cilic and two Franco-American duels between Gilles Simon and Tommy Paul and Richard Gasquet and Taylor Fritz…
Note the absences of world n ° 1 Novak Djokovic, title holder and five-time winner, Gaël Monfils or Benoît Paire, who preferred to ignore it.
Injured in the foot in Vienna on Friday, Dominic Thiem, n ° 3 at the ATP, was forced to give up.
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This particular edition is placed under the sign of austerity and solidarity, with a prize money down by more than 25% compared to last year and a different redistribution.
Thus, the winner will receive a check for 301,975 euros, less than a third of what Djokovic had pocketed in 2019.
The finalist will have to settle for 227,000 euros instead of 503,730 a year ago.
Conversely, the endowment has been revalued for the most "modest" players.
Thus a defeat in qualifying brings in 6,160 euros, against 3,725 last season.
The first round of the French:
Carreno-Busta (Esp / n ° 9) - GASTON, MANNARINO - Dimitrov (Bul / n ° 13), SIMON - Paul (EU), GASQUET - Fritz (EU), BONZI- qualified, Sandgren (EU) - HERBERT, MOUTET - qualified, HUMBERT - Ruud.