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Nine charitable causes, nominated by ATP World Tour tournaments, players and alumni, will receive $/€15,000 grants through the ATP ACES For Charity programme in 2015. This year’s recipients include the YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta, the Special Olympics and Fight Aids organisations in Monte-Carlo, the Swedish Cancer Society, Officine Terenzio, and the Tomas Berdych Foundation...
Down 4-6, 1-5, Martin Klizan was staring down the barrel. It was the first round of qualifying for the China Open; his opponent, World No. 927 Xin Gao. Somehow, the Slovakian cheated death — saving four match points — to ride his way into the main draw. On 3 October, after victories over Leonardo Mayer and Ernests Gulbis, the World No. 56 was still alive.
Top-ranked American men’s tennis player John Isner announced today a new coaching agreement with former ATP World Tour player and current Tennis Channel broadcaster, Justin Gimelstob, for the full 2015 season.
Another exceptional list of players has been confirmed for the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, 5-10 January 2015, the first tournament on the ATP World Tour calendar for the New Year. The 2015 tournament heralds the return of the defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain and for the first time the appearance of seven-time Grand Slam winner and current world No1 Novak Djokovic.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan have won their fourth season finale title in their sixth championship match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The top-seeded American twins captured their 103th team trophy with a 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-7 victory over seventh seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo on Sunday afternoon at The O2 in London.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic claims his third straight Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title and fourth season finale crown overall (also 2008 in Shanghai). Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan claim their fourth season finale title in their sixth championship match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Singles matches were not always the most dramatic at this week's World Tour Finals, but players delivered the goods in the press room (including Novak Djokovic's traditional handing out of chocolates) on a consistent basis. With the tournament over, let's enjoy some of the most memorable quotes from the press conferences.
Bob and Mike Bryan are looking to become the first team since...wait for it...themselves to lose an opening match at the World Tour Finals and then go on to capture the title. They did it 2009, when they dropped their first round-robin tilt to Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram before winning their next four matches--including over Mirnyi and Ram in the final.
Check out these great EPA photos of Roger Federer at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London.
At last we are at the business end of the tournament, and hopefully we will have a semi-final line-up that will do the season-ending finale with eight of the best male players of the year justice. First up we have the unstoppable Novak Djokovic who not only beat Tomas Berdych every bit as handily as he has been doing all week, but wrapped up the year-ending No. 1.
The drama has been taken out of just about every singles match right from the start so far this week in London. Novak Djokovic did the same to the battle for the year-end No. 1 ranking.
When the draw for the 2014 World Tour Finals was revealed, the face off between Murray and Federer stood out as one of the picks, if not the pick, of the group stages. Not only was their head to head record poised at 11 wins for each man, but given the last two seasons, this match was perhaps more significant than it may have initially appeared.
David Ferrer played London after all. Briefly. As you may have read in World News, on Thursday morning, Milos Raonic pulled out of London with a quadriceps injury. Of course, the fact that he was 0-2 no doubt played a role as well! So Ferrer got his spot for his match against Kei Nishikori.
Check out these photos from the Federer vs. Murray match at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
If you can forgive us a moment to revel in the first three-set match when super-sub David Ferrer stepped in for an injured Milos Raonic to give Kei Nishikori a workout, we arrive at the last of the round robins, as the Group A boys being what feels like the first week of a Grand Slam to a close.
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