Exhausted Federer pulls out of Paris Masters

PARIS, Oct 30 (Reuters) World number one Roger Federer has pulled out of the Paris Masters tournament which started today, saying he was exhausted, organisers said.

The top seed, who celebrated a first title in his home town in the Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel yesterday, is expected to be back in action for the season-ending Masters Cup from November 12 to 19 in Shanghai.

Federer, who has never won in the French capital and misses the event for the third year in a row, became the latest and most prominent casualty of a tournament now missing five of the world's top six players.

World number two Rafael Nadal pulled out on Sunday with a stomach muscle injury, joining world number three David Nalbandian, world number four Ivan Ljubicic and world number six Andy Roddick.

The highest-ranked player left in the draw is world number five Nikolay Davydenko.

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