Heading into the Paris masters this week there are two spots still left for both the singles and doubles tournament in London. So here is a guide to explain all the permutations heading into the last masters 1000 tournament of the season.
Seven Players, Two Spots
In the singles tournament there are two spots left after Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem, Grigor Dimitrov and Marin Cilic have all booked their places at the season ending finale at London.
Seven players all have a mathematical possibility of making the season ending finale with one tournament remaining. David Goffin and Pablo Carreno Busta are in seventh and eighth place in the race to London, with the Belgian in a very strong position to make the ATP Nitto Finals.
The other five players chasing a spot in England’s capital are Sam Querrey, Kevin Anderson, Juan Martin Del Potro, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga and Lucas Pouille.
In summary Sam Querrey will need to finish one round further than Carreno Busta to make the season ending finale in London. While Kevin Anderson will need to finish two rounds further than the Spaniard to qualify for his first appearance at the season’s closing events.
Last week’s finalists in Basel and Vienna respectively, Juan Martin Del Potro and Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, will need to make the Semi-Finals in Paris to have any chance of making London. While Lucas Pouille will need to make the final for a potential outside chance of making London.
Here are the permutations in full as it is sure to be an exciting end to the ATP World Tour in Paris:
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Six Teams, Two Spots
Despite a very exciting singles race, it is the doubles race that is sure to set Paris on fire this week with six teams fighting for two spots.
Seventh placed Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers just need to win one match in Paris to qualify for the World Tour finals in London. Eighth placed team Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic can no longer make London after Marach injured his back in Vienna last week.
Ninth placed Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus will need to match Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram’s performance in Paris. This means that the Roland Garros champions will need to at least win their first round match against Nikola Mektic and Matwe Middelkoop.
Tenth placed team Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram need to better Harrison and Venus to qualify for London. For Colombian duo Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah they will need to make the final at least and hope teams above them underperform.
The same permutation applies to Marc and Feliciano Lopez who need to make the final if not win the title in Paris. While Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas will need to win the title and hope other teams lose their first match this week.
Despite the complicated permutations we will know who qualifies for London early in the tournament as the following matches could occur:
- Bopanna/Cuevas v Cabal/Farah – 1st Round
- Lopez/Lopez v Klaasen/Ram – 2nd Round
It is sure to be an exciting race to London, the two teams that qualify this week will join the other six teams that have qualified which are:
- Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo
- Henri Kontinen and John Peers
- Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau
- Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares
- Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
- Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hughes Herbert
