France enters the running on Tuesday from eleven o'clock in the Davis Cup. This is the first edition of the most famous tennis competition, under its new format. Specialist double with Nicolas Mahut, Pierre-Hugues Herbert does not hide his bitterness in the face of the new reform.

Just winner of the masters in London, Pierre-Hugues Herbert, with Nicolas Mahut, took the direction of Madrid to play the Davis Cup. A new reform, criticized by many tennis players and observers, including "PHH".

The French player castigates the new format of the competition created in 1900: "This new Davis Cup - or this Tennis World Cup - is another competition to be here and be selected to represent France, play with his teammates and to give everything for his country is something I have never hesitated in. It is like a duty and a real pleasure to be there with friends to defend the colors of France. "

The program for the Blues, Japan on Tuesday, before facing Serbia Novak Djokovic on Thursday.