The Niçois, star at home. Gilles Simon (54th in the world) will be the headliner in Nice, with Kristina Mladenovic (42nd) of the first stage of the Elite FFT Challenge (July 6-11). This series of tournaments should compensate for the freeze on professional ATP and WTA circuits, announced on Monday the French federation, the organizer of the tour.
In the men's table made up of 24 players, Simon will be notably accompanied by Pierre-Hugues Herbert (71st) and Nicolas Mahut (213th). Among the ladies (12 players), Mladenovic will notably be accompanied by his teammates on the French team who won the last Fed Cup: Fiona Ferro (53), Alizé Cornet (59), another Niçoise, and Pauline Parmentier (154) .
Also in Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet
The competition will take place in the form of a championship from Monday to Wednesday before a knockout table (with the quarters on Thursday, the half Friday and the final on Saturday). The semi and finals will be broadcast on the FFT web channel.
This mini-circuit in the Alpes-Maritimes is part of the recovery plan put in place by the FFT to help players who are unemployed because of the coronavirus pandemic. After Nice, he will move to Cannes (July 13-18) and then to Villeneuve-Loubet (July 20-25). The tournament series, endowed with a total of 282,000 euros, will be played on hard to prepare for the American tour planned for August with the highlight of the US Open.
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