After a frantic week of contentious decisions, episodes of crowd booing and athlete outbursts, the final of the Paris Masters is finally upon us.
The hotly contested tournament in the French captial has not passed by without event, and now tennis icon Novak Djokovic will battle for the crown against the unseeded Grigor Dimitrov.
Djokovic booked his place in the last two following an arduous victory over Andrey Rublev, during which medics were called onto the court when it appeared the Serbian ace could no longer go on.
Rublev was gracious in defeat as he took time out for some fans just minutes after losing to Novak Djokovic on a double fault. The pair met in the second semi-final at the Rolex Paris Masters with the match going down to the wire as the top seed just edged out the 26-year-old 5-7 7-6(3) 7-5.
Djokovic himself later said that he had “never faced Rublev playing so well” and it seemed that the 14-time title winner agreed as he reflected on his week in Bercy. “I feel like, I don’t know, it’s been a great week,” Rublev said just minutes after walking off court.
“I was playing really great level, I was controlling really good emotions so looks like I’m moving in the right direction and the most important thing is to just keep going this way.”
