The figures are our own count. We rebuilt every edition from the singles draws published on Wikipedia and checked each final, the champion's seed and the No. 1 seed's result against the ATP results archive, one year at a time, and the finals since 2006 against the tournament's own lists; they all agree.
Paris Masters winners list: every champion since 1986
Boris Becker won the first edition at Bercy in 1986 as the top seed, beating the qualifier Sergio Casal. The ATP called 2024 the 39th and final edition at the Accor Arena, the Bercy arena's current name.
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Champion's seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jannik Sinner | Felix Auger-Aliassime | 2 |
| 2024 | Alexander Zverev | Ugo Humbert | 3 |
| 2023 | Novak Djokovic | Grigor Dimitrov | 1 |
| 2022 | Holger Rune | Novak Djokovic | Unseeded |
| 2021 | Novak Djokovic | Daniil Medvedev | 1 |
| 2020 | Daniil Medvedev | Alexander Zverev | 3 |
| 2019 | Novak Djokovic | Denis Shapovalov | 1 |
| 2018 | Karen Khachanov | Novak Djokovic | Unseeded |
| 2017 | Jack Sock | Filip Krajinovic | 16 |
| 2016 | Andy Murray | John Isner | 2 |
| 2015 | Novak Djokovic | Andy Murray | 1 |
| 2014 | Novak Djokovic | Milos Raonic | 1 |
| 2013 | Novak Djokovic | David Ferrer | 2 |
| 2012 | David Ferrer | Jerzy Janowicz | 4 |
| 2011 | Roger Federer | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 3 |
| 2010 | Robin Soderling | Gael Monfils | 4 |
| 2009 | Novak Djokovic | Gael Monfils | 3 |
| 2008 | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | David Nalbandian | 13 |
| 2007 | David Nalbandian | Rafael Nadal | Unseeded |
| 2006 | Nikolay Davydenko | Dominik Hrbaty | 4 |
| 2005 | Tomas Berdych | Ivan Ljubicic | Unseeded |
| 2004 | Marat Safin | Radek Stepanek | 6 |
| 2003 | Tim Henman | Andrei Pavel | Unseeded |
| 2002 | Marat Safin | Lleyton Hewitt | 3 |
| 2001 | Sebastien Grosjean | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 6 |
| 2000 | Marat Safin | Mark Philippoussis | 2 |
| 1999 | Andre Agassi | Marat Safin | 1 |
| 1998 | Greg Rusedski | Pete Sampras | 13 |
| 1997 | Pete Sampras | Jonas Bjorkman | 1 |
| 1996 | Thomas Enqvist | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 12 |
| 1995 | Pete Sampras | Boris Becker | 1 |
| 1994 | Andre Agassi | Marc Rosset | 8 |
| 1993 | Goran Ivanisevic | Andriy Medvedev | 9 |
| 1992 | Boris Becker | Guy Forget | 9 |
| 1991 | Guy Forget | Pete Sampras | 5 |
| 1990 | Stefan Edberg | Boris Becker | 1 |
| 1989 | Boris Becker | Stefan Edberg | 1 |
| 1988 | Amos Mansdorf | Brad Gilbert | Unseeded |
| 1987 | Tim Mayotte | Brad Gilbert | 5 |
| 1986 | Boris Becker | Sergio Casal | 1 |
Wikipedia's list also includes an indoor Paris Open played from 1969 to 1982, but the tournament counts from 1986, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, and so do we.
Most Paris Masters titles: Djokovic, Becker and Safin
Djokovic won his seven titles between 2009 and 2023 and reached nine finals. He is the only man to defend the title, which he did in 2014 and again in 2015, and his record at the event is 50 wins and 9 losses in 17 appearances. Becker and Marat Safin won three titles each, and Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras two; the other 23 champions won once.
- Becker reached five finals, in 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1995, the most after Djokovic; Sampras and Safin reached four each.
- Djokovic lost his other two finals to players winning their first Masters title, Karen Khachanov in 2018 and Holger Rune in 2022.
- Three men lost two finals and never won the event: Brad Gilbert (1987 and 1988), Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1996 and 2001) and Gael Monfils (2009 and 2010).
How often the top seed wins the Paris Masters
The No. 1 seed won 11 of the 40 editions and lost two more finals. Since 2000 the top seed has won five of 26, 19 percent, all five by Djokovic, in 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023. At the four majors from 2000 to 2026 the men's No. 1 seed won 43 of 107, 40 percent.
Part of the gap is absence. The No. 1 seed did not play a match five times: Mats Wilander gave a first-round walkover to the eventual champion, Amos Mansdorf, in 1988, Roger Federer withdrew in 2006 and 2012, Rafael Nadal in 2018 and Jannik Sinner in 2024. Djokovic in 2011 and Nadal in 2017 pulled out before their quarterfinals, and three times the top seed lost his first match: Sampras in 1996, Federer in 2009 and Carlos Alcaraz in 2025. Counting only the 35 editions the No. 1 seed played, he won 11.
| Since 2000 | Paris Masters | Men's Grand Slams |
|---|---|---|
| No. 1 seed won | 5 of 26 (19%) | 43 of 107 (40%) |
| A top-four seed won | 17 of 26 (65%) | 90 of 107 (84%) |
| Seeded 9th or lower, or unseeded | 7 of 26 (27%) | 8 of 107 (7%) |
| Unseeded champion | 5 of 26 | 2 of 107 |
Unseeded and first-time Paris Masters winners
Six champions were unseeded: Mansdorf in 1988, Tim Henman in 2003, Tomas Berdych in 2005, David Nalbandian in 2007, Khachanov in 2018 and Rune in 2022. Rune beat five seeded players for his title, among them the top seed, Alcaraz, who retired during their quarterfinal, and Djokovic in the final. Qualifiers reached the final four times, Casal in 1986, Radek Stepanek in 2004, Jerzy Janowicz in 2012 and Filip Krajinovic in 2017, and lost all four.
Paris has also been a place for first Masters titles. Since 1990, when the series now called the Masters 1000 began, 12 of the 36 editions went to a player winning his first, three of them in the past decade: Jack Sock, Khachanov and Rune. For nine of the 12 it is still their only Masters title:
- Greg Rusedski (1998), Sebastien Grosjean (2001), Henman (2003) and Berdych (2005).
- Robin Soderling (2010), David Ferrer (2012), Sock (2017), Khachanov (2018) and Rune (2022).
The other three, Thomas Enqvist in 1996, Nikolay Davydenko in 2006 and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2008, won more Masters titles later.
Paris Masters and ATP Finals winners in the same season
Paris is the last Masters 1000 event of the season, and in 10 of its 40 editions the champion went on to win the ATP Finals that year: Becker in 1992, Sampras in 1997, Federer in 2011, Djokovic in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2023, Andy Murray in 2016, Daniil Medvedev in 2020 and Sinner in 2025. Eight of the last 15 Paris champions completed that double.
In nine seasons the Paris champion also finished the year ranked No. 1: Stefan Edberg in 1990, Sampras in 1995 and 1997, Agassi in 1999, Djokovic in 2014, 2015, 2021 and 2023, and Murray in 2016. Agassi in 1999 and Djokovic in 2021 and 2023 also won the French Open that year, and Federer and Alexander Zverev have won both Paris titles in different years, Zverev with the 2026 French Open after his 2024 Paris title.
Paris Masters winners by country
- Serbia: 7 titles, all by Djokovic.
- United States: 6, by Tim Mayotte (1987), Agassi (1994, 1999), Sampras (1995, 1997) and Sock (2017), the last American to reach the final.
- Russia: 6, by Safin (three), Davydenko, Khachanov and Medvedev.
- Germany: 4, Becker three times (twice for West Germany) and Zverev.
- Great Britain: 3, by Rusedski, Henman and Murray. France: 3 in eight finals, by Guy Forget (1991), Grosjean and Tsonga.
- Canada: none in three finals, lost by Milos Raonic (2014), Denis Shapovalov (2019) and Felix Auger-Aliassime (2025). Australia: none; Mark Philippoussis (2000) and Lleyton Hewitt (2002) lost its two finals.
Paris Masters venue and court: from Bercy to La Defense
The tournament has always been played indoors. The 2007 edition ended five-set finals and replaced the carpet with resin-coated wooden courts, the hard surface still in use. The draw grew from 32 players to 48 in 1990 and to 56 in 2020. In 2025 the event left Bercy for Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, which became the Plenitude Arena on July 1, 2026.
2025 Paris Masters: Sinner's first title
Sinner, the No. 2 seed, won the first edition at La Defense without losing a set, beating Auger-Aliassime, seeded ninth, 6-4, 7-6(4) in the final on November 2, 2025. It was his fifth Masters 1000 title and it returned him to No. 1 in the ATP rankings. By our count he lost 29 games in five matches, the fewest by a Paris champion since the move to hard courts in 2007; Federer in 2011 and Djokovic in 2014 lost 33.
Alcaraz, the top seed, lost his opening match to Cameron Norrie, and Sinner beat the defending champion, Zverev, 6-0, 6-1 in the semifinals. Two weeks later Sinner won the ATP Finals in Turin for the second year in a row.
2026 Paris Masters: dates and venue
The 2026 Paris Masters is scheduled for November 2 to 8, according to the ATP; the tournament's site gives October 31 to November 8, qualifying included. It is the second edition at the arena in Nanterre, now the Plenitude Arena, and Sinner is the defending champion. Until then, results from the tournaments in play are on the Vertize tennis scores page, and the rest of the tour is in the tennis section.
Paris Masters winners: frequently asked questions
Who has won the most Paris Masters titles? Novak Djokovic, with seven: 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023. Boris Becker and Marat Safin won three each.
Who won the 2025 Paris Masters? Jannik Sinner, who beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 7-6(4) in the first final played at Paris La Defense Arena.
When and where is the 2026 Paris Masters? From November 2 to 8, 2026, at the Plenitude Arena, the former Paris La Defense Arena, in Nanterre, west of Paris.
How often does the No. 1 seed win the Paris Masters? In 11 of the 40 editions since 1986, and in five of the 26 since 2000, 19 percent.
Has an unseeded player won the Paris Masters? Yes, six times since 1986, most recently Holger Rune in 2022.
How this was built: every singles edition of the Paris Masters from 1986 to 2025, 40 tournaments, rebuilt from the Wikipedia draw pages: the finalists, the seeds printed in each draw and every main-draw match of the champion and the No. 1 seed. Each final, champion's seed and No. 1 seed result was checked against the ATP results archive, and the 2006 to 2025 finals against the tournament's own lists, which differ only in the score of the 2021 final. A year in which the No. 1 seed withdrew counts as one he did not win; walkovers are not counted as matches. Masters 1000 titles since 1990 come from Wikipedia's season pages, through the 2026 Shanghai Masters; ATP Finals champions, year-end No. 1s and French Open champions from the data behind our ATP Finals article. See also our methodology. Data collected October 20, 2026.