Pioline hopes Djokovic will play in both venues

The Paris Masters, the past tourney successful the 1,000 bid of the season, aft forty agelong years, is moving from the celebrated Bercy hallway to the new, modern Arena La Défense. The aged hallway has go excessively tiny for the needs of today's tennis, truthful starting this fall, matches volition beryllium played successful a overmuch larger space. Novak Djokovic's sanction is inactive connected the database of registered players, but determination is simply a anticipation that the legendary tennis subordinate volition retreat earlier the commencement of the tournament, which starts successful astir 2 weeks.

New hallway and caller energy

The manager of the tournament, the French Cédric Pioline, said that helium sincerely hopes that the champion tennis subordinate of each clip volition inactive travel to Paris. 

"It would beryllium large for Novak to beryllium among the tennis players who volition triumph titles successful some places," said the erstwhile fig 5 subordinate successful the world. 

He reminded that the Serbian ace already holds the Paris Open grounds with arsenic galore arsenic 7 titles won.

Pioline besides presented each the novelties successful the caller hall. "The cardinal tribunal volition person 17,500 seats and it volition beryllium the 2nd largest stadium for tennis, close aft the 'Arthur Ashe' arena successful New York. Court fig 1 and fig 2 volition person 4,000 seats each. We besides decided to summation comfortableness connected the grooming courts due to the fact that it was rather choky successful Bercy."

He besides confirmed that the aboveground volition beryllium changed. "We decided connected mean speed, to dilatory down a spot compared to past year. We privation the conditions to beryllium arsenic akin arsenic imaginable to those successful Turin, wherever the crippled is played close aft Paris."

Pioline points retired that the determination was indispensable successful bid to support the tourney among the astir important successful the calendar. "We had to amended successful bid not to suffer the masters status. We had a deadline of 4 to 5 years and that's wherefore we had to marque this decision," said the Frenchman, adding that the caller arena volition bring freshness and greater opportunities for the assemblage and players.