See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Tuesday 28th of October 2025!
Paris Masters fifth seed Ben Shelton gets underway in the Round of 32 against Flavio Cobolli.
The head-to-head is two-all after four clashes over the past two seasons. Cobolli won in Geneva and Washington DC in 2024, while Shelton grabbed wins in Acapulco and Toronto this year. All four matches produced game totals of at least 26.
Shelton’s form has ebbed away since winning the Canadian Masters and reaching the quarters in Cincinnati. He lost to Adrian Mannarino in the third round of the US Open, David Goffin first up at the Shanghai Masters and Jaume Munar in the second round of last week’s Swiss Indoors.
Clay specialist Cobolli won his first two ATP titles on that surface earlier this year, while he made the quarters of a grand slam for the first time at Wimbledon.
The 23-year-old’s subsequent hard-court form has been patchier, but he beat Tomas Machac in the first round of the Vienna Open (before losing to Jannik Sinner 6-2 7-6) and again in the first round in Paris, a 6-1 6-4 result.
Despite Shelton’s recent wobbles, he’s an irresistible pick here with the pair even in straight up match betting.
World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz kicks off his Paris Masters campaign against British stalwart Cameron Norrie in the Round of 32.
Alcaraz had a 5-2 advantage against Norrie, who last beat the Spanish superstar in the 2023 Rio Open final. Alcaraz won their only clash since – straight-sets result in this year’s Wimbledon quarterfinals.
Since losing the Wimbledon final to Jannik Sinner, Alcaraz has won every tournament he’s entered: the Cincinnati Masters, the US Open and the Japan Open.
Norrie defeated Sebastian Baez 6-3 6-4 in the first round in Paris. He’s maintained the solid form that carried him back into the top 40 during the grass swing, including a win over Andrey Rublev and a marathon three-set loss to Matteo Berrettini at the Vienna Open.
Alcaraz is a $1.06 favourite to progress here, but Norrie has been playing well enough to suggest he can keep this reasonably close against an opponent appearing in his first match in four weeks.
In-form pair Jaume Munar and Daniil Medvedev square off in the first round of the Paris Masters.
The pair have met only once previously, with Munar pulling off a 6-2 6-3 boilover at the Miami Masters earlier this year.
A patchy season has taken a recent upswing for Medvedev, who clinched an ATP Finals berth by reaching the Shanghai Masters semis and taking out the Almaty Open. The world No.13 was subsequently tipped up by Corentin Moutet in the Vienna Open’s Round of 16.
Munar hit a career-high No.36 thanks to his Swiss Indoors semifinal run, upsetting Ben Shelton and Felix Auger-Aliassime before falling to Joao Fonesca.
The 28-year-old also impressed in Shanghai, beating Marton Fucsovics, Flavio Cobolli and Yoshihito Nishioka to reach the last 16, where he took a set of Novak Djokovic.
Medvedev’s consistency remains a question mark, but the $1.40 shapes as an enticing option to cover a modest start here.
Denis Shapovalov and Joao Fonesca lock horns for the second time in four days at the Paris Masters, with the Brazilian teenager coming off the biggest success of his short career to date.
Fonesca outlasted Shapovalov in the Swiss Indoors quarterfinals, with the Canadian retiring at 4-1 down in the third set.
Fonescas went on to beat Spanish duo Jaume Munar and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina to lift the trophy – his first at ATP 500 level. The 19-year-old subsequently rose to a new career-high ranking of No.28.
World No.24 Shapovalov has enjoyed a stellar 12 months after a rough couple of seasons, winning the Belgrade Open last November, and the Dallas Open and Los Cabos Open in 2025.
Shapovalov’s serve fell apart against Fonesca and there was speculation it wasn’t an injury that saw him retire as the match slipped away from him. It would take quite a turnaround to reverse the result against the burgeoning Fonesca, whose confidence is sky-high.