It’s Friday, and that means quarter-finals day at this weeks ATP Tour tournament the Paris Masters 1000 Series. There’s been plenty of upsets and seeds crashing out this week, the most recent fifth seed Thiem and sixth seed Zverev, which has left an even mix of four remaining seeds and four unseeded players. World number one and two, top-seed Nadal and second seed and four-time Paris champion Djokovic are still on track for an epic battle for the year-end number one ranking in Sunday’s final.

However, it’s far from certain they will meet in Sunday’s final as Nadal faces old foe, veteran Tsonga, Nadal leads the head-to-head 9-4 and on hard courts he’s ahead 6-3. Djokovic faces an even sterner test against NextGen super-star and seventh seed Tsitsipas; the young Greek leads the head-to-head 2-1 and he will hope for a repeat of both his wins against Djokovic on hard courts at this seasons Shanghai Masters 1000 Series in three sets last month and at the Canadian Masters 1000 Series last season in three sets.

The remaining seed in the quarter-finals line up is thirteenth seed French veteran Monfils, who faces the in-form NextGen Canadian star Shapovalov for the second time and if today’s encounter is anything like their epic five set marathon thriller at this year’s US Open, then we’re in for a real treat. The final quarter final is between Garin from Chile and former top-ten-star Dimitrov and this will be there first ever meeting on the ATP Tour.