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Stan Wawrinka and Jannik Sinner will play doubles collectively for the primary time.
Dodig/Krajicek prime seeds, Koolhof/Skupski defending champs
Jannik Sinner and Stan Wawrinka will play Novak Djokovic and Miomir Kecmanovic in a blockbuster first-round doubles match on the Rolex Paris Masters.
Neither workforce has competed collectively prior to now, however there shall be loads of starpower on the court docket. Djokovic, Sinner and Wawrinka have all cracked the High 4 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings. The successful duo will within the second spherical face third seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden, who’ve certified for the Nitto ATP Finals.
Djokovic is competing for the primary time since Davis Cup motion the week after he received the US Open in September. He’s 0-3 in doubles this yr. Wawrinka received a doubles title earlier this season in Gstaad with fellow Swiss Dominic Stricker.
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Different notable first-round matchups within the doubles draw embody Jiri Lehecka/Ben Shelton enjoying Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz, and Marcelo Melo/Alexander Zverev dealing with Nathaniel Lammons/Jackson Withrow.
It’s a essential week within the chase for one of many 4 remaining slots on the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin. Lammons and Withrow are eighth within the Pepperstone ATP Dwell Doubles Groups Rankings, however will not be at present projected to qualify for the season finale as a result of Seventeenth-placed Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler received this yr’s Australian Open and as Grand Slam champions between eighth and twentieth, would earn a spot.
Lammons and Withrow are 445 factors behind seventh-placed Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni. Different groups at present in a qualifying spot are fourth-placed Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos and fifth-placed Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, who triumphed Sunday in Basel.
The highest seeds in Paris are Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek and the second seeds are Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski, the defending champions.
There are two weeks remaining within the common season. The week after the Rolex Paris Masters, there shall be ATP 250 occasions in Marseille and Sofia.
