<p>An ATP rule designed to entice top players to take part in top events states that, as world number one, Djokovic is entitled to a $2 million bonus if he plays in all eight Masters tournaments. The bonus drops to $1.6 million if he misses one -- and to nothing if he misses two. <br /><br />Having skipped the Shanghai Masters through injury, the Serbian suffered a recurrence of a shoulder problem in his semifinal defeat in Basel against Japan's Kei Nishikori last week. <br /><br />Djokovic, who said he spent his time between Basel and Paris recovering from the injury, dismissed talk that he had turned up in Paris just to cash in the cheque. <br /><br />“It was really somehow funny for me to see how people are coming up with that story...I even heard that I would get on the court and play a game just to get this money. This is ridiculous,” he told a news conference. <br /><br />Swiss Roger Federer, seeded three, barely broke sweat in a 6-2, 6-3 dismissal of French wild card Adrian Mannarino to reach the third round where he will face local favourite Richard Gasquet on Thursday. <br /><br />Second seed Andy Murray started his campaign in ruthless fashion, beating France's Jeremy Chardy 6-2, 6-4 to reach the third round. <br /><br />Serbian Janko Tipsarevic kept alive his slim hopes of making it to the ATP World Tour finals when the 11th seed thrashed American Alex Bogomolov Jr 6-1, 6-0.<br /><br />Bhupathi-Paes exit<br />India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes were knocked out of the doubles competition after losing to Santiago Gonzalez and Christopher Kas 6-3, 1-6, 8-10 in the second round.<br />Fourth-seeded Bhupathi-Paes, who got a first round bye, started well in the match but lost points in key moments to suffer an early exit. <br />Agencies<br /></p>
<p>An ATP rule designed to entice top players to take part in top events states that, as world number one, Djokovic is entitled to a $2 million bonus if he plays in all eight Masters tournaments. The bonus drops to $1.6 million if he misses one -- and to nothing if he misses two. <br /><br />Having skipped the Shanghai Masters through injury, the Serbian suffered a recurrence of a shoulder problem in his semifinal defeat in Basel against Japan's Kei Nishikori last week. <br /><br />Djokovic, who said he spent his time between Basel and Paris recovering from the injury, dismissed talk that he had turned up in Paris just to cash in the cheque. <br /><br />“It was really somehow funny for me to see how people are coming up with that story...I even heard that I would get on the court and play a game just to get this money. This is ridiculous,” he told a news conference. <br /><br />Swiss Roger Federer, seeded three, barely broke sweat in a 6-2, 6-3 dismissal of French wild card Adrian Mannarino to reach the third round where he will face local favourite Richard Gasquet on Thursday. <br /><br />Second seed Andy Murray started his campaign in ruthless fashion, beating France's Jeremy Chardy 6-2, 6-4 to reach the third round. <br /><br />Serbian Janko Tipsarevic kept alive his slim hopes of making it to the ATP World Tour finals when the 11th seed thrashed American Alex Bogomolov Jr 6-1, 6-0.<br /><br />Bhupathi-Paes exit<br />India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes were knocked out of the doubles competition after losing to Santiago Gonzalez and Christopher Kas 6-3, 1-6, 8-10 in the second round.<br />Fourth-seeded Bhupathi-Paes, who got a first round bye, started well in the match but lost points in key moments to suffer an early exit. <br />Agencies<br /></p>
