 This week on the ATB Tour we have one of the biggest ATP 1000 events of the season, the final event of the season for most players in Paris and we're going to go through everything you need to know about the Paris Indoor Masters. The event started back in 1969 and was actually competed at the Stade Pierre de Covertin the first 13 years of its existence. Then in 1989 it was actually upgraded to become one of the Grand Prix Tour tournaments which was back in the day was what the ATP 1000 events were called. It was rebranded as the Paribas Masters in 2003 and then in 2017 it was called the Rolex Paris Masters after Rolex decided to sponsor the event. The first winner of the event was actually Boris Becker at the age of 18 years old and of course when it first started was a carpet court when it was first introduced so a player like Becker loved playing on that sort of surface and it used to be one of the fastest courts in the world and really rewarded bold attacking tennis so guys like Boris Becker Pete Sampras would really thrive at this event but back in 2011 they actually decided to slow down the courts a little bit and they changed it from a carpet court to an indoor hard court as they were having so many problems with the carpets throughout the 20 years beforehand in 2007 that's when it changed defending champion of this event is Novak Djokovic who has won this event a bunch of times and he's the only player to successfully defend this title between 2013 and 2015. The venue itself is at the Acor Arena an indoor hard court venue which is category four a medium fast court they actually have three indoor hard courts so it's not a huge stadium with many courts only the couple courts and the center court seats around 15,500 people with all courts having Hawkeye and of course being an indoor hard court meaning that the roof is fixed and cannot be retracted the draw itself is a 56 person draw with seven qualifiers and four wildcards based on last year's tournament 16 seeds are in the tournament with the top eight seeds getting a buy in the first round when it comes to points as it's being a 1000 event it's one of the biggest events four points and prize money when the quarter finals onwards you'll get 180 points for making the quarter finals 360 for a semi final 600 for the final and of course a thousand points if you can win the trophy when we get to the prize money if you make it to a quarter final you'll win 60 000 euro a semi final will get you 106 000 euro the final will get you 187 000 euro and if you can go all the way and win the trophy you'll win 336 000 euro so a lot of money on the line in this event the Paris Masters the final event of the tour for pretty much everyone except for the guys going to the atv finals let me know down the comments below who do you think is going to win this tournament because it's a very open tournament we've had some random champions at this event in recent years of course Djokovic has dominated it over the last few years but we have had some crazy champions pop out of nowhere like jack sock won this event back in the day as well so it is a bit of a random tournament of course we're going to watch a lot of this tournament and we're going to do a draw ceremony and draw preview next week so make sure you join us for that so we can see who these guys are playing of course we're going to get guys like Rafa and Djokovic hopefully back in action playing a tournament together for the first time in a long time but i'm going to have down the comments below what's your early prediction for the Paris indoors