2008 Masters France

2008 Masters France
Date December 18 - December 21
Edition 1st
Location Toulouse, France
Champions
Singles
France Gilles Simon

The 2008 Masters France was a non-ATP affiliated exhibition tennis tournament. It was the first edition of the event held in Toulouse, France from December 18 through December 21, 2008. Only a men's singles tournament was held.

The tournament was open to the top eight French players who had performed best at ATP Tour events held in France during 2008 (at Metz, Lyon, Marseille and the Masters Series event in Paris). Some players had to pull out and were replaced by the next best French player (see the Masters France article.

Review

Players

Nicolas Mahut, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet (as a wildcard) were due to play but they all pulled out before the tournament began, due to lack of preparation after injury on the part of Gasquet and, in Tsonga's case, in order to concentrate on preparing for next season.

Josselin Ouanna replaced Mahut two days before the start, while Arnaud Clément took the place of Gasquet and Tsonga was replaced by Michaël Llodra.

Key

Seed Player Marseille (32 draw) Metz (32) Lyon (32) Paris (48 - byes)
1 Paul-Henri Mathieu Semi-finals Final Round 2 Round 1
2 Gilles Simon Quarter-finals Round 1 Semi-finals Round 3
3 Julien Benneteau Round 2 Round 1 Final DNP
4 Adrian Mannarino DNQ Semi-finals DNQ Round 1
5 Marc Gicquel Round 1 Quarter-finals Round 1 Round 1
6 Michaël Llodra Round 2 Round 1 Round 1 DNP
7 Josselin Ouanna DNP DNP Quarter-finals Round 1
8 Arnaud Clément Round 1 Round 1 Round 1 DNQ

Original qualifiers:

Champions

France Gilles Simon def. France Michaël Llodra 57, 76(7) retired

References

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