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After playing exos in Chile and Argentina, Novak Djokovic will vacation in Patagonia. . . Roger Federer asked a coach to do some coordination exercises with his twin daughters: "No way I would do it. I am not a baby tennis coach."
Tomas Berdych will make his fourth straight appearance at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after becoming the latest player to qualify for the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from November 4-11.
Two Spaniards swept to home wins on opening day, with Marcel Granollers beating slumping Serb and former top 10 player Janko Tipsarevic 1-2 when Tipsarevic retired injured after just a few minutes on court.
Let's hope this was David Ferrer finally discovering his indoor form and not Ernests Gulbis melting down again. At least Gulbis lasted long enough to put himself in the Top 25; he is likely to end up at #24.
And so Roberta Vinci loses yet another chance to reach the Top Ten; indeed, it appears she will fall a couple of spots. That means the final Top Ten spot would go to either Caroline Wozniacki or Sloane Stephens, who were contesting it at Luxembourg.
There was Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe. Stretching the field, you can talk of Rolls and Royce, Rogers and Hammerstein. But a quartet?
There is a lot of excitement around the year-end battle for top spots and especially Novak Djokovic's effort to wrest the top spot back from Rafael Nadal for the year-end rankings throne. Believe it or not, Rafa's lucky number is 666.
This was a day of upsets, and for a little while, it looked as if our #1 seed might be one of them. He survives -- but it doesn't do him any good in the race or rankings yet; this is too small to count.
With his upset of Janko Tipsarevic In Moscow, Russian Karen Khachanov became the first 17 year old to reach an ATP quarterfinal since Juan Martin Del Potro at 2006 Umag. . .
Talk about a horrid first round match for both players! Fernando Verdasco came in at #32, Ivan Dodig #29, so there wasn't much to separate them.
Novak Djokovic has chosen to rest next week instead of accepting a late - and presumably lucrative - invitation to play as a wild card in the Valencia 500 ATP event...
As the ATP Tour eases its way through the Asian swing, 2013 has so far, by Roger Federer's standards, been somewhat of a disappointment.
Mahesh Bhupathi may soon turn his eyes to his multiple business interests.
Czech fifth seed Lucie Safarova began her week with a win over China's Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-4 while Serb Bojana Jovanovski, seeded eighth, beat former French Open winner Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-3.
As he heads back to Europe after third-round disappointment at the Shanghai Masters, Roger Federer says he's surprised at the lack of a true youth movement in the current men's game.
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