Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters with a straight-set win over Karen Khachanov.
Serbia’s former world primary, the sixth seed, beat the Russian 6-4 6-1.
The 21-time Grand Slam winner, 35, will subsequent face the third seed, Denmark’s Casper Ruud, or Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti for a spot within the semi-finals.
Earlier, world primary Carlos Alcaraz, 19, additionally reached the final eight with a straight-set win, beating Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov 6-1 6-3.
The Spaniard will face Russian seventh seed Andrey Rublev or Denmark’s Holger Rune subsequent.
Djokovic has received the title in his previous two appearances, in 2019 and 2021, profitable 16 of his previous 17 matches in Paris – together with his solely loss coming in opposition to world quantity 19 Khachanov within the 2018 ultimate.
Though Djokovic broke Khachanov in his first service recreation, the Russian broke again to make it 3-3, earlier than the Serb took his alternative to clinch the set by breaking Khachanov once more at 5-4.
Khachanov then held his serve however Djokovic breezed via the remainder of the second set to clinch victory in a single hour and 27 minutes.
Contesting his second occasion since profitable the US Open title and changing into the top-ranked males’s participant in September, Alcaraz backed up his opening straight-set win over Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka with one other scientific show.
The Spaniard received 9 of the primary 10 video games as he wrapped up victory in a single hour and 12 minutes.
Dimitrov was in a position to deliver the second set again on serve at 3-3 however Alcaraz then escaped two break factors within the seventh recreation earlier than sealing victory.
The Paris Masters is the ultimate common ATP Tour occasion of the season, earlier than the ATP Finals get beneath method in Turin on 13 November.
Aiming to win his third ATP Masters 1000 title of the yr following successes in Miami and Madrid, Alcaraz is assured to be the highest seed in Turin after world quantity two Rafael Nadal suffered a second-round defeat by American Tommy Paul.
Ought to he triumph in Paris, {the teenager} would safe the year-end world primary rating earlier than his debut look on the Finals.
