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Under the bright lights of La Défense Arena, Jannik Sinner and Felix Auger-Aliassime will step onto court chasing significant milestones when they battle for the Rolex Paris Masters title on Sunday.

For Sinner, victory would mark his first Paris crown and seal a triumphant return to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, reclaiming it from rival Carlos Alcaraz. Meanwhile, Auger-Aliassime — up to eighth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin — can book his spot at the prestigious Nitto ATP Finals if he emerges victorious. Their championship clash is slated for not before 3 p.m. CEST/9 a.m. EDT.

Paris Masters Final ⚔️Sinner vs Auger-Aliassime

Can @felixtennis stop @janniksin and take the title?❔

His serving will be key tomorrow as he looks to nullify Sinner's return exceptional shot qualities on the groundstrokes?#TennisInsights | @atptour | #RolexParisMasters pic.twitter.com/zhLTAUp2w3

The pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series stands at 2-2, though Sinner has claimed consecutive victories in Cincinnati and at the US Open this year. Their semi-final in New York was a gripping four-set encounter, with Auger-Aliassime briefly threatening to turn the tide before Sinner’s poise prevailed.

“At one point I saw him doubt and I actually nearly had a momentum shift where I could turn the match around in my favour,” Auger-Aliassime said of that match. “After different reasons, maybe he had a letdown, and the match turns around again. But it was encouraging to see that. These players are not unplayable. They are very strong, yes. Sometimes they're really unplayable, but there's a way to upset them.”

The 2025 Rolex Paris Masters concludes Sunday, when second seed Jannik Sinner and Felix Auger-Aliassime will clash in the final, which will take place not before 3 p.m. CEST.

Sinner is tied with Auger-Aliassime at 2-2 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series, with the Italian claiming victories in Cincinnati and at the US Open this year. The doubles final will take place before the singles final.

View Sunday's full schedule below…

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Day 6 of the 2025 Rolex Paris Masters saw Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev to reach the final on Saturday. Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Alexander Bublik in their semi-final clash.

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Results - Saturday, 01 November 2025

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.

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.

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

“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.”

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.

“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.”

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

“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.”

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.

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].”

Jannik Sinner powered past Ben Shelton on Friday at the Rolex Paris Masters to reach the semi-finals of the French ATP Masters 1000 event for the first time and continue his push to return to World No. 1.

The second seed delivered a statement in his 400th tour-level match, ousting the American 6-3, 6-3 to extend his indoor winning streak to 24, dating back to November 2023. Should Sinner claim his fifth trophy this season — and first ATP Masters 1000 title of 2025 — he would return to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings on Monday.

“It was a very tough match. At times against Ben you don’t have a lot of control because of his incredible serving, but today I felt like I was returning very well,” said Sinner, who won 71 per cent of his second-serve return points, according to Infosys ATP Stats. “Also from the back of the court, I played very solid and also very aggressive, so I’m very happy about today’s match.”

Sinner did not commit a single unforced error off his reliable two-handed backhand and finished with just 10 on his forehand. The Italian was aggressive on second-serve returns and showcased lightning-fast reflexes against Shelton’s hefty delivery.

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Felix Auger-Aliassime moved to within 90 points of Lorenzo Musetti in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin on Friday, when he ended the run of French wild card Valentin Vacherot to reach the semi-finals at the Rolex Paris Masters.

Vacherot had won his past 10 ATP Masters 1000 matches, highlighted by his fairytale victory in the Shanghai final earlier this month. However, he was unable to cope with Auger-Aliassime’s weight of shot and intensity in Paris, where the ninth seed earned a 6-2, 6-2 win to reach his fourth Masters 1000 semi-final.

“Every opponent is different. It was an interesting challenge coming onto court today and playing a player I knew from practice but had never played in a match. He is so confident and you are kind of scared to be honest," Auger-Aliassime said. "You are not sure if he has got some magic right now that nobody else has but he is playing unbelievably. But I had to be so focused from the start and this level of intensity from the first game I brought helped ease me into the match and I played some good tennis.”

Auger-Aliassime rallied from a set down in his first three matches in the French capital but was in control from early on in his first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting against Vacherot. The 25-year-old, who broke Vacherot’s serve in the opening game, has reached 10 tour-level semi-finals this season, lifting trophies in Adelaide, Montpellier and Brussels.

Auger-Aliassime will next meet Alexander Bublik. The eight-time tour-level titlist is 90 points behind Musetti in the Live Race To Turin and will leapfrog the Italian if he reaches the final. Auger-Aliassime is chasing his second appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals, having qualified in 2022.

Jannik Sinner advanced to the quarter-finals at the Rolex Paris Masters for the first time on Thursday, when he moved past Francisco Cerundolo 7-5, 6-1 to keep alive his hopes of returning to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings.

The Italian moved tentatively at times between points in the opening set and flexed out his right leg but never called for a medical timeout during the 86-minute clash. The second seed struck 12 winners to just two unforced errors in the opening set to lead and then won a 10-minute game at the start of the second set to break Cerundolo’s serve, striking a forehand winner on his second break point of the game. From that moment, Sinner raced to victory.

"I was up twice with the break in the first set and I could not convert," Sinner said. "I put myself in not an easy situation, but I am happy with how I ended the match and I felt much better. Hopefully, it will give me the confidence to start off in a good way tomorrow. Hopefully, I can recover physically, which is my main priority. Today was a great match and a great performance from my side."

With his win, Sinner became the first Italian to reach the quarter-finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 events. The 24-year-old has triumphed at Masters 1000s in Miami, Canada, Cincinnati and Shanghai.

Sinner, who leads Cerundolo 4-2 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series, has won his past 23 matches indoors and has kept alive his hopes of capitalising on Carlos Alcaraz’s early Paris loss in the battle for World No. 1: The Italian can return to top spot next Monday if he can lift his first Masters 1000 title of the season.

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