No blue-white-red final bouquet: Alexander Zverev (ATP 3) deprived Ugo Humbert (18th) and Bercy of a French coronation for the farewell of the Masters 1000 in Paris at the hall which forged its history.
There will have been no final blue-white-red bouquet: world No. 3 Alexander Zverev deprived Ugo Humbert (18th) and Bercy of a French coronation for the farewell of the Masters 1000 in Paris in the hall that forged his story on Sunday.
For the first final of his career in Masters 1000, Humbert (26 years old) came up against the ruthless version of Zverev: the big German with bulging biceps rocketed in just 75 minutes with a 6-2 double towards his seventh title in Masters 1000, his second in 2024 after Rome.
A glimpse of history: we will perhaps remember that the first and last winners in the Parisian room were German. After the first page written by Boris Becker in 1986, the last is written by Zverev.
But Bercy will not know a French successor to the three it has seen triumph in almost four decades: Guy Forget in 1991, Sébastien Grosjean in 2001 and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2008, sixteen years ago.
From 2025, the Parisian tournament, too cramped in its current configuration to meet the growing demands of the pro circuit, will cross the French capital from east to west to take up residence at La Défense Arena in Nanterre, in the largest hall versatile of Europe.
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