France, skippered by Georges Goven, on Monday selected Alize Cornet and Pauline Parmentier in place of newly-dethroned Australian Open champion Amelie Mauresmo and top-ten compatriot Marion Bartoli for their Fed Cup encounter with China in Beijing next weekend.
Both Mauresmo and Bartoli had declined their invites for the squad but Goven initially said he would expect to be able to count on both as well as Virginie Razzano and Nathalie Dechy.
"The French team defends its values and principles and has to come first," Goven insisted last week, adding he wanted to select the strongest team possible.
But a French Tennis Federation staement said that Cornet and Parmentier would instead be taking their places for the Chinese test which will see the French without their top three female players in Mauresmo, Bartoli and back injury victim Tatiana Golovin.
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