Last two tickets to London up for grabs in Paris

By Patrick Vignal

PARIS (Reuters) - The last two tickets to the World Tour finals are still to play for at the Paris Masters tournament starting on Sunday, with Russia's Nikolay Davydenko and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco ideally placed to grab them.

Six players have already booked a place in the Nov. 22-29 season finale in London featuring the world's top eight players.

As of Friday, 10 players are still battling for the two remaining spots with Davydenko, runner-up last year when the event was held in Shanghai, and Verdasco holding on to the seventh and eighth positions.

Other contenders include Swede Robin Soderling, Chilean Fernando Gonzalez and Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who won the title in Paris last year and can bank on support from the crowd at the Bercy hall hosting the last event in the showcase Masters 1000 series.

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro and Andy Roddick have already booked their places in London.

All will be in Paris apart from Roddick, who pulled out before Friday's draw still nursing the knee injury that forced him to retire from the Shanghai Masters last month.

World number one Federer, who returns for the seventh time, will look to advance beyond the quarter-finals for the first time.

The final tournament of the regular season had suffered from high-profile withdrawals over the past few years but can rely this year on a first-class field.