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Singles match after singles match at the World Tour Finals has been a straight-set beatdown. Any one involving Novak Djokovic is not a particularly good candidate to end the trend. The top-ranked player in the world is simply playing too well overall, too well at this particular event, and too well indoors.
With all the feeling of one of those Grand Slams that insist on playing first round matches for the entire first week, the search for match of note continued on Tuesday after the curse of the breadstick score-lines.
Even though Roger Federer is not yet assured of a place in the semifinals, fans went home happy from the O2 Arena on Tuesday at the World Tour Finals. They had the pleasure of witnessing stellar, straight-set performances from both Federer and Andy Murray. Federer remains in ideal shape to reach the last four in London while Murray stays alive.
Whilst it is easy to ridicule the Group A score-lines, surely Wednesday will yield at least one match with a more complex score-line? Let’s take a look at the candidates as the winners and losers do battle.
The afternoon crowd left the O2 Arena a little bit disappointed, but Sunday's night-session fans got exactly what they came to see: vintage Roger Federer. Federer kicked off his 2014 World Tour Finals campaign with a 6-1, 7-6(0) round-robin win over Milos Raonic. That had been preceded by Andy Murray's 6-4, 6-4 loss to Kei Nishikori.
Tomas Berdych is delighted to have qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for a fifth straight season, but realises this year’s event at The O2 could be the toughest yet.
As the year ends and the top eight players assemble in London there's one question everyone wants to ask them: is this the moment of generational change? Are the Big Four still really the Big Four or are they on the way out, to be replaced by younger "New Balls"?
Rafael Nadal will return to London this November in an attempt to capture his first career season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title. Nadal joins three-time champion Novak Djokovic as the first two singles players to qualify for this year’s season finale, to be held at The O2 from 9-16 November.
The season-ending event drew a total of 253,123 fans across eight days of competition, meaning that the world’s biggest indoor tennis tournament welcomed more than a quarter of a million fans for the second consecutive year, said the ATP in a statement.
Andy Murray made comfortable progress to the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 arena, defeating David Ferrer 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday night to set up a potential last four meeting with Rafael Nadal.
Rafael Nadal moved a step nearer to the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour finals in London with a 7-5 6-2 win over an ailing Novak Djokovic on Wednesday night.
A tournament as well-presented as the ATP World Tour Finals in London deserves at least one firecracker of a match. Whatever else happens this week, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick gave the tournament just that on Monday night, with Nadal somehow fending off a swashbuckling Roddick to win 3-6 7-6 6-4.
This is a fascinating country and Shanghai is a great town. That is what the Shanghai Rolex Masters is hoping the outside world will eventually realise.
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