Paris Master also attracts the best doubles players in the world, many hoping to score points before the tour finals. However, last year’s event was won by an invasion of two singles players in Hubert Hurkacz and Felix Auger-Alliassime. Those two aren’t playing the doubles this year, but these favourites will still be keen to make sure something like that doesn’t occur again.
Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic (1)
-Croatia
-32 and 28 years old respectively
-World number one and two respectively
-Mektic has one men’s doubles Wimbledon title in 2021, Pavic has three men’s doubles grand slams (2018 AUS, 2021 Wim, 2020 US), both have olympic gold from Tokyo
-Mektic has one Paris Masters quarterfinal in 2020, Pavic has one final in 2020
-Both out in the first round of the US Open
-Quarterfinalists at Indian Wells
-Decent form
-Great season
-Favourites
Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram (2)
-Great Britain and USA
-29 and 37 respectively
-World number three and four respectively
-Together they have two men’s doubles grand slam titles (AUS 2020, US 2021)
-Salisbury has one Paris Masters quarterfinal in 2019, Ram has one Paris Masters victory in 2018
-Recently won the US Open
-Out in the second round of the Indian Wells
-Decent form
-Great season
-Favourites
Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert (3)
-France
-39 and 30 years old respectively
-World number five and six respectively
-Five grand slam titles together (AUS 2019, RG 2018, 2021, Wim 2016, US 2015)
-One Paris Masters victory in 2019
-Made the quarterfinal at the US Open
-Missed Indian Wells
-Good form
-Great season
-Favourites
Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers (4)
-Argentina and Spain
-36 and 35 years old respectively
-World number seven and eight respectively
-Two grand slam men’s doubles finals together at Wimbledon 2021 and the US Open 2019, Granollers has a further two grand slam men’s doubles finals at the 2014 French Open and at the 2014 US Open
-Granollers has one Paris Masters victory in 2018, Zeballos has never gone beyond the second round
-Made the quarterfinal at the US Open together
-Out in the first round of Indian Wells
-Average form
-Reasonable season
-Outsider favourites
Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah (5)
-Columbia
-35 and 34 years old respectively
-World number ten and 11 respectively
-Two grand slam men’s doubles titles together at Wimbledon 2019 and US Open 2019
-Neither has been beyond round 2 of Paris Masters
-Out in the first round of US Open 2021
-Out in the first round of Indian Wells
-Poor form
-Average Season
-Unlikely to turn it around
Filip Polasek and John Peers (6)
-Slovakia and Australia
-36 and 33 years old respectively
-World number nine and 16 respectively
-Polasek has an Australian Open Men’s doubles title in 2021, Peers has an Australian Open Men’s doubles title in 2017
-Polasek has one Paris Masters semifinal in 2019, Peers has one Paris Masters victory in 2016
-Made the semifinal at the US Open together
-Won Indian Wells together
-Good form
-Good season
-Outsider Favourites
