By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, October 25, 2025Photo credit: Carine/Wikimedia Commons
Nicolas Mahut will bid farewell to house followers in Paris subsequent week.
The 43-year-old Frenchman will play his ultimate skilled event on the Rolex Paris Masters armed with a well-known ally: Grigor Dimitrov.
Wild playing cards Mahut and Dimitrov will play Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys of their Rolex Paris Masters doubles opener.
Former doubles world No. 1 Mahut’s farewell coincides with Dimitrov’s return.
The Thirty seventh-ranked Bulgarian has been sidelined greater than three months since tearing his pectoral muscle at Wimbledon whereas main Jannik Sinner 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 within the spherical of 16.
Former world No. 3 Dimitrov can be entered within the Paris Masters singles draw the place he’ll play lethal-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in spherical one. The winner of that match will face both former world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev or Spain’s Jaume Munar within the second spherical.
The proprietor of 37 profession doubles titles, Mahut partnered one in all his opponents, Roger-Vasselin, to win his final doubles championship on the 2022 Florence.Mahut and long-time associate Pierre-Hugues Herbert gained the Rolex Paris Masters doubles championship in 2019 defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev within the ultimate.
Mahut, who started enjoying tennis on the age of 5, is known for enjoying the longest match in tennis historical past. On the 2010 Wimbledon, Mahut bowed to John Isner 70-68 within the fifth set in an epic 11 hour, 5-minute encounter. Later, Mahut wrote a ebook about that marathon titled The Match of My Life.
