The Briton, meanwhile, has been given a tricky draw for next week's Paris Masters.
Federer is due to play in the Madrid Masters later this month, followed by the Swiss Indoors in Basel, the Paris Masters and Tennis Masters Cup.
He is closing on Roger Federer at the top of the rankings, heading into the Paris Masters and the ATP Tour Finals in London next month.
Last week he was dumped out of the Paris Masters in the third round by Polish qualifier Jerzy Janowicz, and is keen for a strong end to his season.
But Safin has also been nowhere near the player who blew everyone away in the Paris Masters a couple of weeks ago, and Hewitt took the first set 6-4.
That victory over world number one Lleyton Hewitt at last year's Paris Masters gave a glimpse of Safin's talent, as did his form in helping Russia win the Davis Cup.
"Roger is a good friend but I think I would have fancied my chances a bit more against Becker, " joked Henman, who won his last title at the 2003 Paris Masters.
Nadal, who won both Wimbledon and the French Open this year, last played at the Paris Masters in October, when he was forced to pull out because of his injury problems.
The 30-year-old currently lies seventh in the Champions Race, with only the top seven to qualify, but he can guarantee himself a place by reaching the Paris Masters quarter-finals next week.
The 22-year-old Janowicz improved his record against top-10 opponents to 3-5, having closed last year by reaching the Paris Masters final as a qualifier, beating Murray and Janko Tipsarevic along the way.
"I need to play better, " the Argentine said of his prospects against Djokovic, who has now won 22 matches since losing in the second round at the Paris Masters in late October.
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Federer, under pressure from Novak Djokovic for the top spot in the rankings, later withdrew from the Paris Masters this week where he is defending champion to rest up ahead of the ATP Tour Finals in London.
After the opening two sets were shared, Paris Masters winner Djokovic gained an early break in the decider, but came under pressure on his own service as he saved break back points in a marathon sixth game, but then finally succumbed as he served for the match at 5-4, Davydenko finally leveling on his fifth break point.
Better visibility is the chief, and almost the only, alteration to the strange and wonderful arrangements of works, notably of School of Paris modern masters, left by Barnes, who died in 1951, at the age of seventy-nine.
The men traditionally focus on the big indoor tournaments in the European autumn with lucrative stops in Moscow, Basel and Valencia before the final counting event of the season at Bercy in Paris and the final Masters 1000.
Youzhny is one of Murray's rivals for the remaining two places and next week's Masters Series tournament in Paris is the last chance to earn qualifying points.
Murray lies 18th, 48 points behind the player in eighth, but could feasibly qualify if he wins the St Petersburg Open and reaches the final of the last Masters Series tournament in Paris next week.
Four years ago, Edward flew to the US to help with the presidential campaign, despite being a UK national and compleating a masters degree at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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He will be heavy favorite to win his 24th Masters 1, 000 crown Sunday before heading to Paris for his defense of the French Open crown.
After being dogged by injuries and indifferent form earlier in the season, he is now firing on all cylinders, beating world number one Roger Federer in the Madrid Masters final two weeks ago and again in the third round in Paris.
Seven years into a vicious, expensive, politically unpopular and largely ignored war being fought thousands of miles from Paris, the French expeditionary force under General Henri Navarre was under pressure from its political masters at home to grasp the military initiative from the Chinese-backed forces of the Viet Minh.
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