That tournament begins on 2 November, with the end-of-season ATP World Tour Finals in London following three weeks later.
After Paris, the top eight ranked men's and doubles players head to their ATP World Tour Finals in London in the last week of November.
Men's doubles tennis reaches its high-water mark at the year-end ATP World Tour Finals in London, where the sport's top players take center stage each day.
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But Murray, who has been plagued by the problem over the last six weeks, is focussed on playing at the end-of-season ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Davydenko this week repeated his victories over Federer and Nadal from the 2009 season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London, where he beat Del Potro in the final.
Swedish ninth seed Robin Soderling kept alive his hopes of snatching a place at the ATP World Tour Finals in London by defeating Croatia's Ivo Karlovic 6-4 7-6.
Del Potro is appearing at the ATP World Tour Finals for the first time since 2009, when he lost in the final in the tournament's debut year in the UK capital.
The Russian, who beat the world number one in their last meeting in the last four of the ATP World Tour Finals in London in November, triumphed 6-4 6-4 in one hour and 20 minutes.
Soderling, who also defeated Nadal at the season-ending ATP World Tour finals in London, had come into the match buoyed by his breakthrough first victory against world No. 1 Roger Federer in the semifinals on Friday.
The 28-year-old is arguably the form player on tour after his success at the ATP World Tour Finals last November and in Doha to start the year -- where he beat both Federer and Rafael Nadal.
Victory for Djokovic was revenge for a defeat to his Davis Cup teammate at the ATP World Tour Finals in London last November and he acknowledged that he was fortunate the match had not gone to a deciding set.
Djokovic beat the Swiss maestro in the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in London in November as he went back to the top of the global tree, also beating Murray in their round robin group match.
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Shanghai has made way for London and the Tennis Masters Cup has been rebranded the ATP World Tour Finals, but the principle remains the same - the best eight players in the world battling to end the year as the world champion.
Murray's surprise third-round defeat by Stanislas Wawrinka at Flushing Meadows last month had been followed by a listless display against Ivan Ljubicic in Beijing just nine days ago, but a kind draw in Shanghai helped the Scot work his way back into some form during the early rounds and secure a place at the end-of-season ATP World Tour Finals in London.
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He became the first American since Roddick to reach three consecutive ATP Tour finals, and has launched himself up the world rankings to 26th.
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