Up to code, all the 38 best-ranked tennis players have been entered for the Rolex Paris Masters that will take place from 29th October to 4th November 2018. But there are many doubts about Roger Federer's appearance. The Swiss will compete at the Laver Cup this weekend, then at the Rolex Shanghai Masters, Swiss Indoors in Basel and at the ATP Finals in London.
But the question remains if Federer will want to play Basel and Paris back-to-back. Especially since he last competed in Bercy in 2015 losing to the American John Isner in the third round. Last year, Rafael Nadal withdrew from Paris before his quarter-final match against Filip Krajinovic due to a knee injury, while the four-time winner Novak Djokovic will make his comeback after skipping it in 2017 due to an elbow injury.
The 2016 champion Andy Murray and the Swiss Stan Wawrinka, who defeated Nadal in the quarter-finals in 2015, need a wildcard invitation to make it to the main draw. Jack Sock is the defending champion. In 2017, he won his maiden Masters 1000 title to qualify for his maiden ATP Finals.
Alex de Minaur is the last player to directly join the main draw entry list, the world no. 39 Gilles Simon is the first alternate. The full field is mentioned below:
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1 NADAL, Rafael ESP 1
2 FEDERER, Roger SUI 2
3 DJOKOVIC, Novak SRB 3
4 DEL POTRO, Juan Martin ARG 4
5 ZVEREV, Alexander GER 5
6 CILIC, Marin CRO 6
7 DIMITROV, Grigor BUL 7
8 THIEM, Dominic AUT 8
9 ANDERSON, Kevin RSA 9
10 ISNER, John USA 10
11 GOFFIN, David BEL 11
12 NISHIKORI, Kei JPN 12
13 FOGNINI, Fabio ITA 13
14 SCHWARTZMAN, Diego ARG 14
15 TSITSIPAS, Stefanos GRE 15
16 EDMUND, Kyle GBR 16
17 SOCK, Jack USA 17
18 CORIC, Borna CRO 18
19 POUILLE, Lucas FRA 19
20 RAONIC, Milos CAN 20
21 CARRENO BUSTA, Pablo ESP 21
22 CECCHINATO, Marco ITA 22
23 CHUNG, Hyeon KOR 23
24 KHACHANOV, Karen RUS 24
25 GASQUET, Richard FRA 25
26 BAUTISTA AGUT, Roberto ESP 26
27 KYRGIOS, Nick AUS 27
28 DZUMHUR, Damir BIH 28
29 VERDASCO, Fernando ESP 29
30 JOHNSON, Steve USA 30
31 BASILASHVILI, Nikoloz GEO 31
32 MANNARINO, Adrian FRA 32
33 KRAJINOVIC, Filip SRB 33
34 SHAPOVALOV, Denis CAN 34
35 MEDVEDEV, Daniil RUS 35
36 KOHLSCHREIBER, Philipp GER 36
37 MILLMAN, John AUS 37
38 DE MINAUR, Alex AUS 38
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ALTERNATES
1 SIMON, Gilles FRA 39
2 TIAFOE, Frances USA 40
3 CHARDY, Jeremy FRA 41
4 MONFILS, Gael FRA 42
5 FUCSOVICS, Marton HUN 43
6 HAASE, Robin NED 44
7 GOJOWCZYK, Peter GER 45
8 JARRY, Nicolas CHI 46
9 SEPPI, Andreas ITA 47
10 EBDEN, Matthew AUS 48
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