By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, October 25, 2025
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Nicolas Mahut will bid farewell to home fans in Paris next week.
The 43-year-old Frenchman will play his final professional tournament at the Rolex Paris Masters armed with a familiar ally: Grigor Dimitrov.
Wild cards Mahut and Dimitrov will play Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys in their Rolex Paris Masters doubles opener.
Former doubles world No. 1 Mahut’s farewell coincides with Dimitrov’s return.
The 37th-ranked Bulgarian has been sidelined more than three months since tearing his pectoral muscle at Wimbledon while leading Jannik Sinner 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 in the round of 16.
Former world No. 3 Dimitrov is also entered in the Paris Masters singles draw where he will play lethal-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in round one. The winner of that match will face either former world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev or Spain’s Jaume Munar in the second round.
The owner of 37 career doubles titles, Mahut partnered one of his opponents, Roger-Vasselin, to win his last doubles championship at the 2022 Florence.Mahut and long-time partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert won the Rolex Paris Masters doubles championship in 2019 defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev in the final.
Mahut, who began playing tennis at the age of 5, is famous for playing the longest match in tennis history. At the 2010 Wimbledon, Mahut bowed to John Isner 70-68 in the fifth set in an epic 11 hour, 5-minute encounter. Later, Mahut wrote a book about that marathon titled The Match of My Life.