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Smart phones lit the Sunday sky like holiday lights. Seven hours before Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin squared off in the year end Nitto ATP World Tour Finals, tourists flooded to Buckingham Palace to see the changing guard.
The 2017 Nitto ATP Finals brought a spectacular close to a memorable 2017 season that saw more fans come out and watch the world’s best tennis players on the ATP World Tour than ever before. More than 4.5 million fans attended ATP World Tour events in 2017, an all-time record.
Roger Federer wasn’t the only member of the family playing in London last week. The Grand Slam king and wife Mirka took their two sets of twins—eight-year-old daughters Myla and Charlene and three-year-old sons Leo and Lenny—on a play date to Kensington Palace.
Grigor Dimitrov is going to finish the 2017 campaign ranked No. 3 in the world behind only Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. With Nadal and Federer already eliminated from the Nitto ATP Finals, the title was Dimitrov's to win or lose.
Grigor Dimitrov declared his mission statement chasing the dream. Collapsing to the court in an eruption of euphoria, Dimitrov realized it in an emotional embrace.
The 2017 Nitto Finals are over, and it is safe to say they provided plenty of entertainment both on and off the court. Grigor Dimitrov went undefeated to the biggest title of his career, winning a trio of three-setters in the process--including over David Goffin in the final.
Henri Kontinen and John Peers became the first team since Bob and Mike Bryan to win two consecutive doubles titles at the year-end championship when they beat Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday afternoon.
Extreme experiences marked David Goffin’s World Tour Finals week. The seventh seed soared knocking out world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in what he called the best win of his career on Monday night only to crash and burn suffering his worst loss of the season to Grigor Dimitrov on Wednesday.
Roger Federer was a huge title favorite going into the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals, and certainly going into Friday's virtual quarterfinal clash between David Goffin and Dominic Thiem. He is an ever bigger favorite now.
It will be the final match of 2017 for one man and the penultimate match of 2017 for the other when Grigor Dimitrov and Jack Sock clash in the semis of the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals on Saturday night.
Talk is cheap. Players have provided priceless moments with their words at this week’s World Tour Finals. Here are some of the most provocative, candid and funny comments from player press conferences at the O2 Arena.
Jack Sock brought showtime to the O2 Arena—and made American tennis relevant again at the season-ending finale. Roaring back from a break down in the final set, a spirited Sock stopped Alexander Zverev, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, charging into the World Tour Finals semifinals.
Jack Sock was supposed to be playing golf at Augusta National this week. He didn't want to miss that tee time for nothing. Making the most of his last-minute trip to London, Sock booked a place in the semis of the World Tour Finals when he ousted Alexander Zverev 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in a virtual quarterfinal contest on Thursday night.
Roger Federer isn't thinking about a return trip to the No. 1 ranking in the world. Perhaps he should. Closer to Rafael Nadal than he thinks--or cares to admit--he is, Federer picked up 200 more points when he defeated Marin Cilic 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-1 in his last round-robin match of this year's Nitto ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday afternoon.
Dominic Thiem and David Goffin will be battling in a virtual quarterfinal match at the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals when the friendly, familiar foes square off again on Friday afternoon.
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