Alex de Minaur has kept alive his faint hopes of reaching the season's ATP Finals climax with another resilient triumph at the Paris Masters.
Australia's top player had to come from a set down before finally outstaying and subduing the dogged Serb Dusan Lajovic 4-6 6-4 6-4 in a two-hour 11 minute slog in the Bercy hard-court event on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT).
The world No.13 must have a career-best run to the final of the season's last Masters event in the French capital to have any chance of leaping into the top-eight who'll battle in the Finals in Turin the week after next.