Gilles Simon set to end career at Paris Masters with fitting final opponent

Gilles Simon will say goodbye to tennis at the Paris Masters with Andy Murray perhaps his final career opponent.

The French player gave many years to tennis and some of them were quite successful. While he never won a grand slam, he was ranked inside the top 100 and played some amazing matches against some of the best. His final opponent might be Andy Murray who is his round-one opponent at the Paris Masters but if Simon wins, he'll still play one more match.

He and Murray played 18 times with Murray leading 16-2 overall. The match will also be the 110th appearance of Simon at an ATP 100 event and ahead of it, the veteran said:

“I’m just trying to remain focused on what I have to do, as I always used to. That’s the only thing I can do and on which I have control. I’ll try to focus on the first round match. As for the rest, of course, there will be a lot of feelings, contradictory feelings mixing up, and I don’t have the energy right now to put them back, to put my ducks in a row.”