Another week, another major tennis tournament draw reveal that sends fans into a frenzy. This time, it’s the Rolex Paris Masters, the final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season, and boy, did the tennis gods decide to spice things up. World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz is back in action after a much-needed three-week break, but his welcome back to the tour is anything but a cakewalk. Let’s just say his path to a first-ever Paris title looks more like a gauntlet than a yellow brick road.

The official draw dropped, and you could almost hear a collective “oof” from Alcaraz’s corner. While he gets a first-round bye (as all top seeds do), his opening match is against either the relentless Cameron Norrie or the gritty Sebastian Baez. Neither of those is exactly a warm-up. Norrie’s a grinder who can make

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