The 2022 Paris Masters is right behind the corner as the last ATP 1000 event of the year is held from October 31st until November 6th and traditionally features a star-studded entry list.
22-time Grand Slam champion, Rafael Nadal, 21-time Grand Slam champion, Novak Djokovic, youngest world no. 1 in men's history, Carlos Alcaraz, 2022 Wimbledon finalist, Nick Kyrgios and also two-time Grand Slam finalist in 2022, Casper Ruud will all play at the 2022 Paris Masters.
With all the stars competing in the French capital, it was certainly a difficult task for the organisers to create a fitting poster that would promote all of these players.
But they still gave it a shot and created a picture that featured Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Nick Kyrgios, Matteo Berrettini, Carlos Alcaraz, Gael Monfils, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud.
However, while pictures used for Djokovic, Kyrgios, Alcaraz and Berrettini were quite big and covered majority of the poster, pictures of Nadal, Ruud and Tsitsipas were quite small.
Fans noticed especially the difference between pictures used for Kyrgios and Nadal and slammed the tournament organisers in comments and some of them said:
"Please, make Rafael f***ing Nadal smaller so he can make more space for a clown who won absolutely nothing and hasn't an inch of respect for the sport," the user wrote and later added: "Imagine putting NK giant size and Rafael Nadal so little one can barely recognise him."
"Interesting choice of players featured on the posters. Several of them have poor records in Paris (two of the currently out of the top 10). Top left had snubbed the tournament every year so far, but we know why he's there for sure," another user tweeted.
"Really very strange this poster between the absence of the Russians and the fact that even with binoculars it is difficult to see Rafa really incredible," another user posted.
"Rafa is way too big compared to Kyrgios who won 22 Gs… oh wait," one of the users sarcastically commented.
Soon, the tournament was bombarded by many tweets and comments that disagreed with their choices of pictures and they did something that is quite unusual. Although tennis fans seem to be unhappy every now and then, organisers rarely take down their picture, but that's what happened now.
It will be interesting to see how the whole situation unfolds and if the Paris Masters organisers come with another graphic, where Rafael Nadal will be bigger.
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