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Aloha and Mahalo. There's nothing like the north shore of Oahu. Especially during the Triple crown. Or even better the "Eddie" ... BIG Waves ... This has always been a favorite pit stop on the way to Australia. Whether we are coming from east coast / west coast it just helps in length of flight and jet lag.
Soon it will be time to put aside hopes, aspirations, maybe even delusions of being a fit and healthy person and to overindulge in Christmas Dinner, and avoiding the craziness of Boxing Day... which leads us to our history lesson of the day!
Now that Roger Federer has won a Davis Cup winners’ medal and pretty much won everything there is to win in tennis life, he can afford to kick back and relax, yes? No it would appear not as he gears up to make his debut for the International Premier Tennis League.
The News Has been broken by Bob Larson news service that Jo - Willie Tsonga is being paid 500 thousand dollars to play in the inaugural IPTL. If Jo is making $$$$$. What's Roger Federer getting ? $$$$$$$$$$$ ? Or Maria Sharapova ? Or Andy Murray ? We will know in time.
Following hot on the heels of his announcement that the stalwarts of his training team Dani Valldervu and Jez Green parting ways with the two-time Grand Slam champion, Murray confirmed that he had popped the question to his long-time girlfriend Kim Sears on Wednesday.
It probably seems quite fitting that a bizarre week of elite tennis came to a bizarre end on Sunday, when Roger Federer in all his cardigan-ed glory walked onto court to announce his withdrawal from the final.
The watching crowds have been willing the tournament to catch light, and for the briefest of moments, the clouds that have settled on the East of London this week lifted momentarily to bring a three-set semi-final that had promise.
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.
Group B sorted out their semi-finalists on Thursday with Kei Nishikori and Roger Federer doing the honours but in very different circumstances. First up, we lost Milos Raonic to a quad injury, sustained in his match against Andy Murray and serious enough for Raonic not to risk ruining his 2015 season preparations.
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.
It started so promisingly, as Stan Wawrinka started with the same confident free-swinging style as he had against Tomas Berdych in the first round robin match. Surely a mate against the two winners of the first matches would yield our most competitive match to date.
For the non-mathematically minded, all we really want is a simple “win this or go home” scenario, as we look ahead at the final round robin matches for Group B. We kick off on Thursday with the battle of the rookies. Kei Nishikori had to work to overcome his nerves in his opener, when he edged the home-town favourite Andy Murray in the first match.
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.
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.
Now we have had the first rounds, it will be time to get the calculators out, take shoes and socks off to work out all the possible permutations as the two winners and the two losers of the first two matches (still with me?) get to grips in round two.
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