There was a significant upset on Tuesday in the second round of the 2025 Paris Masters 1000 Series Indoor event. Cam Norrie of Great Britain, the 31st ranked player in the world, upset world number one Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Norrie won 15 more points in the match than Alcaraz. Norrie won 101 points and Alcaraz only won 86. Norrie also won 79% of his first serve points compared to 64% of the first serve points that Alcaraz won.
This was only the second match that Alcaraz has lost since winning the United States Open in September. Alcaraz also lost 6-3, 6-2 rather easily to Taylor Fritz of the United States at the 2025 Laver Cup in San Francisco.
Norrie has actually beaten Alcaraz three times in eight meetings. Norrie also beat Alcaraz 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of Cincinnati in 2022, and 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in the final of Rio in 2023.
Even though Norrie came through with an upset win over Alcaraz in the second round, he was unable to build on that momentum and lost in the third round in Paris to Valentin Vacherot of Monaco by a score of 7-6, 6-4. Valentin made headlines earlier this month when he won the Shanghai Masters.
Vacherot will next play Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada in the quarterfinals. This is a massive match for Auger-Aliassime as he is in striking distance of participating in the ATP World Finals. The Canadian is 10th in the world, and the top eight will compete in Turin next month. The other three quarterfinals have Alexander Bublik versus Alex de Minaur, Ben Shelton versus Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev versus Daniil Medvedev.
