LAST TANGO IN PARIS - Rolex Paris Masters - Paris, France

ROLEX PARIS MASTERS 1000

Paris, France

November 1-7, 2021

The last big show for the men is here, Paris in Autumn on the banks of the Seine. A perfect setting to the end of the Masters this season with all but one of the ATP Top 10 men (no Rafael Nadal) and most of the Top 20 (no Roger Federer) contending. World #1 Novak Djokovic and World #2 Daniil Medvedev head the top and bottom of the draw - the 2019 and the 2020 defending Champions.

As much as the ATP has changed with teens and younger players bullying their way up the ladder to the top of the rankings, some top-ranked veterans are stubbornly holding their positions, while other veterans have burst with renewed vitality. This very well may change in Paris, we shall see, so let's get to it!💃

OCTOBERFINALE: ATP 500 Austria, 250 Russia - WTA 250s Romania, Italy

 Erste Bank Open ATP 500
St. Petersburg Open ATP 250
Transylvania Open WTA 250
Courmayeur Ladies Open WTA 250

We're winding down the 2021 Tennis Season for the last four tournaments in October in Europe - two  ATP and two WTA events. 

In November the men vie for the last Masters 1000 - the Rolex Paris Masters 1000, a 250 in Stockholm and the Women will be in Linz, Austria for the last WTA 250 of the season (the women do have five WTA 125s this week through December 19, 2021).

And then, November 7th through the 24th, we're into the Finals: the NextGen Finals Milan, WTA Finals Guadalajara and the Nitto ATP Finals Turin.  And that's a wrap for the 2021 Season! 

One thing most will agree upon is that Year 2021 was much better than the Year 2020. So let's get to it!👇

OCTOBERFEST - WTA 500 Moscow, 250 Tenerife, Spain - ATP 250s Moscow & Antwerp, Belgium

Kremlin Cup WTA 500
Tenerife Ladies Open WTA 250
Kremlin Cup ATP 250
Antwerp Belgium European Open ATP 250

 

Indian Wells is finis and what a two weeks this was! The tournament this year may have been a Sportsbooks' Dream, unless there were a slew of risk takers betting on Underdogs, Longshots, Dark Horses. The Top seeds fell like dominos beginning Week 1. 

And congratulations in order: Women's Champion Spaniard Paula Badosa and RUP Belarusian Victoria Azarenka; Men's Champion Brit Cameron Norrie and RUP Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili. Both Finals were down to the wire - 3 sets - multiple changes in momentum, exciting, and well worth the Finals for a Masters 1000, especially in "Tennis Paradise" in the desert of Indian Wells, California!

But, there's no crying in Tennis and "no rest for the wicked." We're traveling well across the Pond to Europe for four Fall tournaments 2021 - October 17 - 24th in Moscow, Antwerp and the Canary Islands, so let's get to it!

2021 BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells - Week 2

BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells Tennis Garden,
Indian Wells, California USA
ATP1000, WTA 1000

Do you know that there is an Angel naturally carved into the San Jacinto mountains above Palm Springs?  The black and white image is below

  

2021 BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells - Week 1

 

BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells Tennis Garden, 

Indian Wells,  California USA 

ATP1000, WTA 1000