A small field, enormous interest on the part of the best to start the clay court tour and illustrious names in backward positions in the ranking. All this mix of circumstances gives rise to a list of players registered in the preliminary phase of the ATP Masters 1000 Montecarlo 2024 simply amazing. Zhizhen Zhangcurrent 49th in the world, does not manage to enter directly into the final draw, nor does Dusan Lajovic, a former finalist in the Principality, Lorenzo Sonego o Marozsan.
Special mention deserves to see Andy Murray, Matteo Berrettini or the young Jakub Mensik and Arthur Cazaux dedicated to qualy. Even more impressive is to perceive how Stan Wawrinka, Dominic Thiem and Fabio Fogninichampion in 2019, does not give them their current classification even to enter the qualifying phase.