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Bob and Mike Bryan were three games away from falling to 0-2 in matches and 0-4 in sets at the World Tour Finals, a predicament that would almost certainly have been impossible to overcome. Instead, the Bryan Brothers stormed back from a set and 3-1 deficit to beat Jean-Julien Roger and Horia Tecau 6-7(4), 6-3, 10-6 on Wednesday afternoon.
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.
Earlier in the week an Italian journalist went on a routine of asking all the players which one of the other players they’d most like to have dinner with and what question they’d ask that player. Four — Nishikori, Cilic, Raonic, and Wawrinka — chose Roger Federer, for differing reasons.
Four players lost their first match at the World Tour Finals. That always has been the case and always will be--barring a change in format. And every time they still have a chance to progress in the tournament and even win it. Such is the situation for Andy Murray, Milos Raonic, Tomas Berdych, and Marin Cilic.
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.
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"?
Greetings from London. It's cold , it's damp , rain is expected , welcome to London. But when you are @ the ATP championships who cares ? Big Ben is our alarm clock ! The London EYE is in our view and the town is tennis crazy. Sounds like I'm in the right place. From the moment the car came to collect us ( thank you Richard Branson ) the magic carpet ride began.
Barclays tennis begins on Sunday in London ,please look at Ricky's observations & watch on TV on tennis channel.
Andy Murray closed in on a qualification berth for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Julien Benneteau in the BNP Paribas Masters second round on Wednesday.
It was an ideal Friday afternoon for David Ferrer and Andy Murray. The two World Tour Finals hopefuls won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Valencia Open and also saw fellow London contender Milos Raonic lose to David Goffin in Basel. Ferrer and Murray are now set to face each other on Saturday in a match that will have significant London implications.
Milos Raonic kept his World Tour Finals chances afloat by fighting past Donald Young 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(2) in the second round of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Thursday. It was an especially important victory because fellow London contender David Ferrer advanced to the quarterfinals at the Valencia Open. Ferrer downed fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-2.
The 1987 Wimbledon Champion Pat Cash and the two-time French Open winner Sergi Bruguera have added their names to an all-star line-up in the Statoil Masters Tennis, the IMG-owned and staged event held at the Royal Albert Hall, 3-7 December.
Roger Federer has put aside his clay-court shoes after several days of pre-Davis Cup final training and will turn his concentration exclusively to the Swiss Indoors in his bid for a sixth title in his hometown, at the arena where he began as a ballboy two decades ago and has played the last eight finals.
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