Djokovic Withdraws from Paris Masters 2024 | Tennis News

So with the end of season fast approaching and the A2B finals not too far away, next week there's a 1000 event in Paris, but Novak Djokovic has decided not to play that event and withdraw from the event. He's not qualified yet for the A2B finals. Let's go look at the A2B finals race to the finals and see what this all means for Novak Djokovic's campaign. All right so you can see there that we've got Cina, Alkares and Zverev all qualified for Turin and Medvedev is also just within qualification as well. Taylor Fritz, Novak Djokovic, Kasper Brud and Andrei Rublev are all in the spots to take the last four spots for that A2B finals. So Djokovic is in the running, but after pulling out of Paris he really leaves it up to chance because he isn't yet qualified, which is a little sketchy and he's still a long way away from qualification. As you can see there around 4800 points is the qualification cut and he's a thousand points or about 900 points away from that. So if the players behind him such as Diminor, Paul, Dimitrov or even Sintipass have a massive finish to the season, Djokovic could miss out on the race to the finals or miss out on the finals altogether. So Djokovic withdrawing from Paris leaving it up to chance to qualify for Turin. He has said in the past couple of months that he doesn't really care about these kind of events anymore. He's already won so many of them, especially in Paris. He's won everything in Paris at the Paris Indoors. He's got every record there. He's won the most matches. He's won the most titles. He's done everything that has to be done there. He's done everything in the ATV finals as well. He's won so many of those more than anybody else. So I guess those kind of things don't matter anymore. He did say that Davis Cup, playing for Serbia and also the Grand Slams are the priority and none of those things are coming up in the next couple of weeks. So fair enough, he's true to his word, but he can still qualify because usually if we go back to last year, if you get around 4000 points or last year the guys who finished seventh and eighth in the race to finals got about 3500 points, you were to qualify anyway. So I guess Djokovic is comfortable with his near 4000 points that he'll qualify either seventh or eighth anyway and that it's going to be a miracle for the guys behind him to actually take over and kick him out. But he's not too bothered if he gets kicked out, otherwise he would be playing Paris to kind of solidify that spot. But let me know in the comments below, what do you think about all of this? It's very interesting to see how Djokovic is taking this approach at the last minute or at least at the end of his career. We know Raf has gone and he has said things about that and how it kind of is affecting him and we've seen him get a lot more injuries this year than we're used to seeing. He's not had the best season and I guess you know he doesn't want to waste time and waste energy on events that he doesn't need to prove himself at anymore. But Novak Djokovic, not playing Paris next week and his ATP finals campaign is up in the air.