2023-10-30 07:28:56
Criticized by players in 2022, the evening sessions of the Rolex Paris Masters will indeed take place this year. Ten matches, two per day from Monday to Friday, will therefore be played in the evening, not before 7:30 p.m. To attend, specific tickets are required. Depending on the duration of previous matches, they could even start later, which led to extended nights last year.
Corentin Moutet had been one of the “victims” of these night sessions, and had not hesitated to complain about it. On Wednesday November 2, the Frenchman had to show a lot of patience before entering the court. While Gilles Simon and Taylor Fritz had just fought a battle lasting more than three hours, and Rafael Nadal had been eliminated by Tommy Paul in 2h32 of play, the Ile-de-France native began his match shortly after midnight. Nearly three hours later, he qualified for the round of 16 by beating Briton Cameron Norrie.
“I fell asleep at 5:30 a.m., well I wasn’t even sleeping, I was just thinking about the match, I had coffee to keep me awake so I couldn’t sleep, it was more like micronap after micronap” , he explained the next day, very annoyed at having to play again only 16 hours later. A match then won by Stefanos Tsitsipas, who had greatly frustrated Corentin Moutet.
Despite these criticisms, heard during all tournaments on the circuit, not just the Masters 1000 at the Accor Arena, the organizers have decided to continue in this vein. All matches from these evening sessions will be broadcast on Eurosport. The posters are not yet known, they will be known the day before each time. However, they are regularly beautiful posters. In 2022, spectators were able to witness Novak Djokovic-Lorenzo Musetti and Holger Rune-Stanislas Wawrinka.
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