The Rolex Paris Masters is the last ATP Masters 1000 of the season and the final big ranking stop before the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin. Since 2025 it has been played at the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, west of the city, after 39 editions at Bercy. This guide covers the 2026 dates, the venue, the draw, the points on offer, the recent champions and the records that come with it.
Paris Masters at a glance
- 2026 dates: qualifying from Saturday 31 October, main draw Monday 2 November to Sunday 8 November
- Category: ATP Masters 1000
- Surface: indoor hard court
- Venue: Paris La Défense Arena, Nanterre (renamed Plenitude Arena in July 2026)
- Singles winner: 1,000 ranking points
- Defending champion: Jannik Sinner (2025)
- Most titles: Novak Djokovic, 7
Dates and schedule
The ATP calendar lists the 2026 main draw for the week of 2 to 8 November, with the singles final on Sunday 8 November. The tournament counts the event from Saturday 31 October, when qualifying begins. [UNVERIFIED: qualifying days. The tournament’s ticketing page gives qualifying as “Saturday 30 to Sunday 31 October”, which does not match the 2026 calendar, where 31 October is a Saturday. Check the first qualifying order of play.]
Unlike the two-week Masters 1000 events earlier in the year, such as the Shanghai Masters, Paris is played over a single week. The 2026 final times have not been published. In 2025 the doubles final was scheduled for 12:30 and the singles final for not before 15:00, according to the ATP Tour.
The venue
The ATP announced in January 2024 that the tournament would leave the Accor Arena at Bercy for the Paris La Défense Arena from 2025. The ATP called the 2024 edition the 39th and final one at Bercy. The new arena holds 23,000 spectators across the centre court and the outside courts, up from 16,800 at Bercy, according to the ATP’s announcement. The tournament says the arena was renamed Plenitude Arena on 1 July 2026, and its 2026 materials use that name.
Paris is an indoor hard-court event. It was played on carpet until 2006 and moved to hard courts in 2007, according to the ATP Tour.
Draw and format
In 2025 the singles draw had 56 players on 64 lines, with 16 seeds and first-round byes for the top eight. The doubles draw had 28 teams and eight seeds, with byes for the top four. The 2026 draw sizes have not been published, but the ATP has not announced any change. Matches are best of three sets. For how qualifying feeds the main draw, see GTN’s tour-level qualifying explainer.
Points and prize money
Paris carries the standard Masters 1000 points, according to the ATP’s 2025 media notes:
- Winner: 1,000
- Finalist: 650
- Semifinalist: 400
- Quarterfinalist: 200
- Round of 16: 100
- Round of 32: 50
- Round of 64: 10
A seed who has a first-round bye and then loses his opening match receives 10 points. In 2025 total prize money was €6,128,940, and the singles champion received €946,610, according to the ATP. The 2026 figures have not been published.
Recent champions
- 2025: Jannik Sinner d. Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 7-6(4)
- 2024: Alexander Zverev d. Ugo Humbert 6-2, 6-2
- 2023: Novak Djokovic d. Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-3
- 2022: Holger Rune d. Novak Djokovic 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
- 2021: Novak Djokovic d. Daniil Medvedev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- 2020: Daniil Medvedev d. Alexander Zverev 5-7, 6-4, 6-1
- 2019: Novak Djokovic d. Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4
- 2018: Karen Khachanov d. Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-4
- 2017: Jack Sock d. Filip Krajinovic 5-7, 6-4, 6-1
- 2016: Andy Murray d. John Isner 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-4
- 2015: Novak Djokovic d. Andy Murray 6-2, 6-4
Sinner won the first final at the new arena without dropping a set all week, and the title returned him to world No. 1, according to the ATP Tour. Djokovic’s 2023 win over Dimitrov was his seventh Paris title and his 40th at Masters 1000 level. Rune’s 2022 title came against Djokovic in the final, and Khachanov’s 2018 title also came at Djokovic’s expense.
Records
- Most titles: Novak Djokovic, 7 (2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)
- Three titles: Boris Becker (1986, 1989, 1992) and Marat Safin (2000, 2002, 2004)
- Youngest champion: Boris Becker, 18, in 1986
- Oldest champion: Novak Djokovic, 36, in 2023
- Lowest-ranked champion: Tomas Berdych, No. 50, in 2005
- Last French champion: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 2008
The youngest, oldest and lowest-ranked champion records come from the ATP’s 2025 tournament media notes.
Paris and the race to Turin
Paris is the last Masters 1000 before the Nitto ATP Finals, which run from 15 to 22 November in Turin. That makes it the last 1,000-point chance for players still chasing one of the eight places. The week after Paris, 8 to 14 November, has Stockholm and a second ATP 250 on the calendar. How the places are decided is covered in GTN’s explainers on the ATP Race and ATP Finals alternates. For the indoor weeks before Paris, see the Basel and Vienna guides.
Season Snapshot (as of 11 October 2026)
The tournament’s 8 October entry-list announcement named Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe, Arthur Fils, Daniil Medvedev, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Jakub Mensik, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Rafael Jodar, Holger Rune, Ugo Humbert and Arthur Rinderknech in the field. The ATP has not yet published its own Paris entry-list article.
The defending champion will not be there. Sinner’s 2026 season is over because of knee inflammation, which rules him out of Paris and Turin. Djokovic said in Shanghai that Paris is his plan before Turin. “I am planning on only playing in Paris, so let’s see. Hopefully I can have a good result there,” he said, according to the ATP Tour. Entries can change up to the start of the event.
This snapshot is dated and will change. The tournament record above does not.
