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It’s been a long trip and it showed. Jack Sock, looking a little fatigued and distracted, went out of the first round of the BNP Paribas Masters here 6-2, 6-3 to the experienced Serb, Victor Troicki.
Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares stepped up their bid to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Tuesday when they defeated Colin Fleming and Andy Murray 6-2, 6-2 in the BNP Paribas Masters first round.
Stan Wawrinka started his bid Tuesday to become the first Roland Garros-BNP Paribas Masters titlist in the same season since Andre Agassi in 1999.
Benoit Paire fought back from a set and a double break down to stun countryman and two-time finalist Gael Monfils on Monday at the BNP Paribas Masters, moving into the second round with a 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-4 comeback in two hours and three minutes.
Two of the ATP World Tour’s rising stars reached the second round of the BNP Paribas Masters on Monday in Paris as Dominic Thiem and Bernard Tomic both enjoyed victories.
This is a rare occasion in which the elite eight-man field at the World Tour Finals is already set a stone before the BNP Paribas Masters even begins. As such, the upcoming week can be all about this tournament, itself.
Click here to see the latest draws and schedule from the men's BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament held in Paris, France.
Apart from a strange, brief and eventually irrelevant period midway through the first set when his opponent won eight consecutive points, Novak Djokovic was rarely troubled as he retained his BNP Paribas Masters title here at Bercy with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Milos Raonic.
Check out these EPA photos from the final match between Novak Djokovic & Milos Raonic at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris, France.
Check out the latest photos from the 2014 BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament in Paris, France.
Novak Djokovic, looking like the world No 1 and Milos Roanic, who is starting to look as if he wants to challenge for that position, will face off in the final of the BNP Paribas Masters here on Sunday.
Andy Murray's recent results show that he is getting back toward the game's elite, but perhaps he's still just "getting," not "gotten." This means he won't be returning to #4 this week -- he'll be no better than #6. Novak Djokovic will stay at #1; indeed, in light of the next result, his chances of being the year-end #1 are getting a lot better.
Milos Raonic, clinging on to the possibility of making the top eight for the ATP Finals in London, finally worked out a way to beat Roger Federer in the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Masters here, winning a tight struggle 7-6, 7-5.
Novak Djokovic hasn't clinched the #1 ranking yet, but he's doing his best. Gael Monfils will probably end the year at #19 -- although there is just a chance that he could improve that in the Davis Cup final.
Andy Murray's late-season surge officially has him in the World Tour Finals after the Scot rolled over Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-3 in the third round of the BNP Paribas Masters on Thursday afternoon. Murray, who is 20-2 since the U.S. Open with all three of his 2014 titles coming this fall, cruised into the Paris quarterfinals and set up a showdown with world No. 1 Novak Djokovic.
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