Félix Auger-Aliassime will not be back to defend the final he reached in Paris a year ago. The Canadian has withdrawn from the Rolex Paris Masters with the left-knee injury he picked up in Shanghai, which had already kept him out of Brussels and Basel. Alexander Bublik and João Fonseca have also come off the entry list.
Their places go to Luca Van Assche, Matteo Berrettini and Mariano Navone, who move up from the alternates’ list into the main draw without having to qualify. Fonseca had already ended his season.
The wild cards. The French federation and tournament director Cédric Pioline handed all four main-draw wild cards to Frenchmen on Tuesday: Arthur Gea, Quentin Halys, Titouan Droguet and Kyrian Jacquet. Only Halys has played the main draw in Paris before, in 2022 and 2024.
Gea, 21 and No. 44 in the rankings published on Monday, is the form player of the group. He came through qualifying to reach the fourth round of the US Open, then made the last 16 in Beijing and the quarterfinals in Shanghai, beating Ben Shelton and Jakub Mensik on the way. Halys, 30 and No. 45, won the first tour-level title of his career at Kitzbühel this summer. Droguet, 25 and No. 72, won Challenger titles in Cassis and Saint-Tropez in September after reaching the third round in Montreal in August. Jacquet, 25 and No. 79, broke into the top 100 for the first time this year and has since reached the semifinals in Hangzhou and the quarterfinals in Tokyo, where he beat Holger Rune and Luciano Darderi.
They join Arthur Fils, Ugo Humbert, Arthur Rinderknech and Van Assche, giving France eight players in the 56-man main draw. No Frenchman has won the title since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2008. Guy Forget, in 1991, and Sébastien Grosjean, in 2001, are the only others.
Four more wild cards went into qualifying: Félix Balshaw, 20; Benjamin Bonzi, 30; Hugo Gaston, 26; and Moïse Kouame, who is 17. They join Corentin Moutet and Adrian Mannarino in the qualifying draw.
What it means. Auger-Aliassime’s withdrawal costs him the points from last year’s final, which will take him out of the top 10, and he can no longer qualify for the ATP Finals in Turin, where he played in 2022 and 2025. Paris is the last event before the eight-man Turin field is settled; GTN’s ATP Finals guide sets out how the places are decided. Defending champion Jannik Sinner is out for the rest of the season.
The entry list still includes Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, and Holger Rune is the only player entered on a protected ranking. Alcaraz has never gone past the quarterfinals in Paris.
The schedule. The draw is made on Friday, 30 October, at 6:30 p.m. Paris time (1:30 p.m. ET) and is streamed on the tournament’s YouTube channel. Qualifying runs on Saturday and Sunday, and the main draw from Monday, 2 November, to the final on Sunday, 8 November, at the Plenitude Arena, which is staging the tournament for the second time. A men’s wheelchair event is played alongside it from 6 to 8 November. Our Rolex Paris Masters guide covers the venue, points and past champions.
