Andy Roddick and James Blake are playing the PNB Paribas Masters in Paris this week, fighting to win two of the three spots remaining in the draw of the year-end Masters Cup in Shanghai starting Nov. 9.  Five players have already qualified.  It’s a wide open race, with Roddick holding the most points of players yet to qualify, while Blake, at tenth place, has much ground to make up. 

Here is a breakdown of the race from the Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai 2009 web site :  “The Nos. 6-8 players are Andy Roddick with 369 points, Juan Martin del Potro (354) and Gilles Simon (341). Spaniard David Ferrer (338), who reached last year’s final in Shanghai, slipped from No. 7 to No. 9 and trails Simon by three points. Both del Potro and Simon passed Ferrer with semifinal results in Basel and Lyon, respectively.

Other players within reach are: No. 10 James Blake (310), No. 11 Stanislas Wawrinka (301), No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (290), No. 14/last year’s champion David Nalbandian (275), No. 15 Fernando Verdasco (268), No. 16 Gael Monfils (264) and No. 17 Robin Soderling (258). No. 13 Fernando Gonzalez withdrew from Paris.”

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