Ferrero was earlier knocked out of the Paris event by Jiri Novak but he and Roddick will go head-to-head for the year-end top spot at the Masters Cup.
On Monday, the Institute of Groundsmanship, the Football Association and the consultants who oversee Wembley groundstaff held talks in an attempt to find a long-term solution to a problem which reared its head once again during the FA Cup semi-finals on 10 and 11 April.
But after an inexperienced Scarlets side - including young tight-head Simon Gardner - produced an impressive 38-15 Heineken Cup win at Benetton Treviso at the weekend to go top of Pool 5, Davies is content to make do with what he already has.
"It would be a real shame if 'Spence' is a World Cup-winning captain and is unemployed, " said England head coach Gary Street.
Tight-head prop Vickery is a veteran of two World Cup finals and two Lions tours and will bring invaluable experience.
Members of the Lions squad not still involved with their clubs in the Heineken Cup, the Guinness Premiership play-offs or the Magners League will head to the Spanish town of Grenada the week after next for some altitude training before heading to South Africa on 24 May.
But it did not matter - and Flintoff's side will head to the World Cup next month in confident mood.
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Best Mate remains firmly at the head of the ante-post market for the Gold Cup after the Pillar Chase, usually a reliable trial, proved disappointing.
The 27-year-old, widely regarded as the best tight-head in the world, will leave the Otago Highlanders after the World Cup.
I'm told from scheduling that the President has accepted a meeting with the head of FIFA World Cup, but we have not yet altogether made plans -- though I can assure you that a small group of us have assembled in order to move the President in that direction.
Jones spent most of the 2004-05 season playing at tight-head, facing the renowned scrumming powers of Munster and Castres in the Heineken Cup.
He is joined in the front row by veteran loose-head Os du Randt, the only survivor from the Springboks' 1995 World Cup victory on home soil.
The tight-head, who is also the only survivor from England's 2003 World Cup-winning team, says that shows England have been evolving, despite criticism they are being too conservative in trying to rebuild their team.
In-form Spain head to the tournament as favorites, while a resurgent Brazil side and World Cup holders Italy also can't be discounted.
His headed goal looked to be taking Liverpool to their first FA Cup victory over United since the 1920s - but with two minutes to go Manchester turned the game on its head as Dwight Yorke and substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjaer put Liverpool to the sword.
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