Four rivals hold on in the pursuit of Jódar and the ATP Finals and another remains by the way

In it Paris Masters 1000, Rafa Jódar He is the only one of the players fighting for a ticket to the ATP Finals in Turin who will play its first two rounds on Monday and Tuesdayrespectively. He rest of the candidates for ‘teachers’ have distributed their meetings first round between this Monday and this Tuesday and the survivors will take to the court to play the second round on Wednesday.

Of the eight pursuers with mathematical options of passing Jódar, no matter how complicated they were, three have been left out of the game before starting it. Jakub Mensik, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alejandro Davidovich They have finally been lost in Paris and have been definitively ruled out of that fight.

This reduces the list of candidates to move to Jódar to five. The Spaniard surpassed the first round this Monday to have the pass in his hand, but four of his five rivals continue to pressure him from behind, who have also reached the second round: Alex de Minaur, Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul have wonwhile Jiri Lehecka has been eliminated.

With De Minaur directly into the second round as eighth seed, this Tuesday they accompanied him Novak Djokovic after winning 6-7(5), 7-5 and 6-1 against Valentin Vacherot, Tommy Paul after beating Holger Rune 7-5 and 6-4 and Taylor Fritz after coming back to beat Benjamin Bonzi 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4. All four, therefore, are still alive in that fight.

Lehecka has definitely fallen off her. The Czech He lost against Alex Michelsen 6-7(5), 6-2 and 6-4 in his first round match and is left without any option to be ‘master’ of the season. Michelsen will be Carlos Alcaraz’s rival in the second round this Wednesday.

It should be noted that the Jódar post is the closest for the pursuers, but that only four men (Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Ben Shelton and Daniil Medvedevwith Jannik Sinner out of the equation due to injury) They already have the safe ticket to Turin. This also leaves the passes of Flavio Cobolli, Arthur Fils and Frances Tiafoe. Cobolli, who has a good cushion to achieve this, is out in Paris due to a muscle injury. Fils and Tiafoe, like De Mñaur, were directly qualified for the second round because they were among the top eight seeds.