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Rolex Paris Masters 2022 were played from October 29 to November 6 in Paris Accor Arena. Teenager Holger Rune stunned Novak Djokovic, winning 3-6 6-3 7-5. Paris Masters 2023, the world's biggest indoor tennis tournament, will be played from October 28 to November 5 2023. A great occasion to combine tennis and a visit to Paris. Sport in Paris.
Paris Masters, also named Rolex Paris Masters, are an annual tennis tournament for male players, played on indoor hard courts in Accor Arena. The Paris Masters belong to the Masters Series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP world tour). They are the second Paris ATP tennis tournament after clay court Roland-Garros tournament.
Paris Masters web site and tickets
Teenager Holger Rune stunned 21-time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic in the 2022 final, winning 3-6 6-3 7-5.
Daniil Medvedev won the Rolex Paris Masters 2020, played from October 31 to November 8p 2020 in Accor Arena. Novak Djokovic won the Rolex Paris Masters 2021, beating Daniil Mevedev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to win a sixth Rolex Paris Masters title.
The Masters are played in Accor Arena.
Locate the venue on Paris map
Paris metro: Metro station Bercy on line 6 and 14.
Buy Masters tickets through Ticketnet web site
Staying in Accor Arena district, you will enjoy the possibility of walking back to your hotel after the matches, taking a walk the next day in Bercy park nearby. All top sights in the city will be easyly accessible from the hotel.
Booking.comHotel Pullman Paris Bercy is a rare contemporary hotel 1000m from Accor Arena through Bercy Park. It is also a 5-minute walk from Cour Saint-Emilion, its metro station with easy connection to many sights, lovely shops and restaurants. Guests have free access to the sauna and fitness room. Free Wi-Fi is provided in the spacious guest rooms. Each room has a large bay window, an LCD TV, a desk, tea and coffee making facilities and mineral water.
The Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy (POPB) was inaugurated in February 1984 by cyclists from the Paris Six-Day event. It hosted an exhibition tennis match in 1985, and then the first ever Open de Paris-Bercy in 1986. The avowed aim of the event was for it to quickly become the biggest and most important indoor tournament in the world. The first winner was Germany’s Boris Becker, at the age of just 18 years and 11 months – by which time he already had two Wimbledon titles to his name.
From the beginning of the 1990s, the tournament began to step up a level, with the world’s top players consistently appearing. Guy Forget was the first Frenchman to take the title, in 1991, after an epic five-set tussle over Pete Sampras (USA).
In 2000, the tournament was renamed as the BNP Paribas Masters. Russia’s Marat Safin was the first winner under the new name. The following year there was a second French success, courtesy of Sébastien Grosjean. In 2007, Argentina’s David Nalbandian defeated Rafael Nadal. The following year, a third Frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, won the title.
The Rolex Paris Masters, as it is the final ATP Masters 1000 tournament of the season, invariably decides where the last remaining qualifying spots for the ATP World Tour Finals will go. It can also be a crucial stage in the race for the No.1 ranking in the world: Pete Sampras (1995), Marat Safin (2000), Andy Roddick (2003), Novak Djokovic (2012) and Andy Murray (2016) were crowned world number 1 during the tournament.
The Rolex Paris Masters is run by the French Tennis Federation, with Cedric Pioline acting as tournament director.
