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Final showdown does it by the numbers

The season-ending event drew a total of 253,123 fans across eight days of competition, meaning that the world’s biggest indoor tennis tournament welcomed more than a quarter of a million fans for the second consecutive year, said the ATP in a statement.

Lessons learned in London – Thursday

Not only do Bob and Mike Bryan get to spend all day, every day together, they get to do it winning. The twins have won a whole heap of silverware this year, and today they picked up the ATP World Tour year-end No.1 doubles ranking too. Some people have it all.

Murray snatches semi spot and eyes Rafa clash

Andy Murray made comfortable progress to the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 arena, defeating David Ferrer 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday night to set up a potential last four meeting with Rafael Nadal.

Lessons from London – Wednesday

Judy Murray, having opened a school in south London on Tuesday and then hotfooted it to watch her son Andy take on Roger Federer, was performing a different duty at the O2 Arena today – playing host to some future stars of the game. She was chaperoning a quartet of Scotland’s best young players invited by Andy to experience a day at the O2.