A wild card by ricochet
Moïse Kouamé was supposed to face a scheduling headache. Invited to play qualifying at the Rolex Paris Masters from Saturday, he was still alive at the Brest Challenger, where a quarter-final against Francesco Maestrelli awaited him on Friday.
Then Jakub Mensik withdrew injured. That moved Quentin Halys, who held a main-draw wild card, into the field on ranking, and the last invitation passed to Kouamé. The 176th player in the world will now open his campaign in the main draw on Monday instead of grinding through qualifying, and he is guaranteed a career-high ranking of at least 168th on 2 November.
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Who else got in
The other wild cards went to Arthur Gea, Titouan Droguet and Kyrian Jacquet. Gea won his first ATP title in Los Cabos this summer, reached the fourth round at the US Open and made the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters in mid-October. Benjamin Bonzi, Hugo Gaston, Felix Balshaw and Grigor Dimitrov will play qualifying.
The tournament marks its 40th anniversary this year and is at La Defense for the second straight season. Gael Monfils, officially retired since 5 October, will not play but has confirmed a big show in his honour on the evening of 3 November.
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