[kid]

1st Masters de France PNB Paribas
Date: December 18-21, 2008
Venue: Palais des Sports de Toulouse, Toulose, France
Website: http://www.mastersfrance.com
Surface: Hard Indoor

Confirmed players:
Jo Wilfried Tsonga
Paul Henri Mathieu
Gilles Simon
Julien Benneteau
Adrian Mannarino
Nicolas Mahut
Marc Gicquel
(WC)Richard Gasquet

Format:
2 Groups - 4 Players of each group

Schedule:

Thursday, December 18, 2008
4 matches - 2 of each group
player no.1 vs player no.3
player no.2 vs player no.4

Friday, December 19, 2008
4 matches - 2 of each group
player no.1 vs player no.2
player no.3 vs player no.4

Saturday, December 20, 2008
4 matches - 2 of each group
player no.1 vs player no.3
player no.2 vs player no.4

Sunday, December 21, 2008
15:00 CET
3rd place match
followed by Finals

[Truc]

Tsonga will pull out.
http://www.welovetennis.fr/masters-f...masters-france

[Thanos]

will there be live web stream for this??

[Truc]

I don't think so, a pay TV channel (Canal) has the rights to the event.

[Truc]

Llodra will replace Tsonga.
http://www.welovetennis.fr/masters-f...emplace-tsonga

[frici]

Good luck Mannarno

Alléz Adrian!

[Truc]

Clément will play instead of Gasquet.

[Truc]

Red group : 1. Gilles Simon, 2. Julien Benneteau, 3. Marc Gicquel, 4. Nicolas Mahut
Blue group : 1. Paul Henri Mathieu, 2. Michael Llodra, 3. Arnaud Clément, 4. Adrian Mannarino

It starts on Thursday, RR matches during the first 3 days and the final on Sunday (+ another match between the 2nd best of each group).

[soulage]

Schedule:

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Gilles Simon / Marc Gicquel
Julien Benneteau / Nicolas Mahut

Paul-Henri Mathieu / Arnaud Clément
Michael Llodra / Adrian Mannarino

Friday, December 19, 2008
Gilles Simon / Nicolas Mahut
Julien Benneteau / Marc Gicquel

Paul-Henri Mathieu / Adrian Mannarino
Michael Llodra / Arnaud Clément

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Gilles Simon / Julien Benneteau
Marc Gicquel / Nicolas Mahut

Paul-Henri Mathieu / Michael Llodra
Arnaud Clément / Adrian Mannarino

[Truc]

Mahut also out (shoulder problem), I don't know who will replace him - Chardy would be great, he's from that area.

[soulage]

A young french player would be a good idea bur according the local newspaper this morning it could be Santoro.http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2008...-Toulouse.html

Santoro au Palais ?
A noter que Nicolas Mahut souffrait hier soir du dos et qu'il était incertain. Au cas où il devrait déclarer forfait, il serait remplacé par Fabrice Santoro, dont chacun apprécie le style spectaculaire. La location continue sur le site «Mastersfrance.com».

Nothing on official website for the moment

[Truc]

Great choice, Santoro said yesterday he hasn't picked up a racquet for weeks. ^^

It would be better to invite Chardy or Ouanna (they don't want him because he played only 2 of the required events instead of 3, but he was injured in Metz, he'd deserve to be there imo, he was ahead of Llodra & Co. in the Marseille-Metz-Lyon-Bercy ranking).

[Truc]

The FFT website of the event, it might be better than the official one (but they don't have any information about the replacement for Mahut either):
http://www.fft.fr/action/masters-france/?ID=

[Truc]

Ouanna is playing instead of Mahut - it's in L'Equipe already, they knew it yesterday, why couldn't they write it on the website?

[soulage]

The webmaster was sleeping lol It's written on FFT website now. Ouanna & Mannarino have opportunity to fight for AO WC if it's not yet chosen of course

Tomorrow

14H00
Llodra vs Mannarino
16H00
Benneteau vs Ouanna
19H00
Simon vs Gicquel
Follow by
Mathieu vs Clement