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When the first point of this lasted 27 strokes, one of the watchers commented that it was going to be a long afternoon. It might have been a lot longer had David Ferrer been able to hold on to leads.
Tournament director Guy Forget could not have been more pleased with the outcome of this year's Paris Masters, where all of the quarter-finalists also qualifiers into this week's World Tour Finals in London. "We didn't need to go to London, because all the players were here on Friday.
Is the work load too much? Novak Djokovic is about to find out. The Serb collected his 6th title of the year with a hard-earned 7-5, 7-5 victory over Spain’s David Ferrer in the BNP Paribas Masters...
Many of the world’s Top 8 singles players and doubles teams, including the likes of Juan Martin del Potro, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet and Stanislas Wawrinka, hit the red carpet last night
David Ferrer was determined not to have yet another of his feeble matches against Rafael Nadal. He didn't exactly dominate, but he wasn't broken until he served for the match the first time -- and, having been broken, at once broke back and served it out.
A strange match -- and not just because it featured #1 versus #2 in the semifinal. Simona Halep started reasonably well in the first set, collapsed, took charge in the second, went down a break in the third, then took charge again.
As matches go, this was pretty dull. As drama goes, Novak Djokovic is doing his best. Rafael Nadal doesn't need much more to clinch the year-end #1, but Djokovic continues to apply all the pressure he can -- not just winning but winning easily.
When Elena Vesnina lost the second set of this, we couldn't help but think, "Well, that's that." But this is the new model Vesnina. She came back to win -- and leave her record at 2-1, the same as Ivanovic's.
Roger Federer had a succinct phrase to describe the fact that all eight players who have qualified for the ATP World Finals in London
Milos Raonic had a near-miss with tennis history but was unable to capitalize on his chance of becoming the first Canadian to play in the year-end ATP event in singles.
Britain’s Heather Watson has revealed she contemplated retiring from tennis at the age of 21 after her form disintegrated, her ranking plummeted and she struggled to win a solitary match after suffering a serious bout of glandular fever or mononucleosis earlier this year.
While Andy Murray makes his recovery from September back surgery, the 2014 opening of his hotel investment property in Scotland is going according to plan.
Boris Becker has chimed in with an opinion on the state of Roger Federer as the Swiss concludes his least productive season of the past decade or so.
As widely predicted, Caroline Wozniacki has officially announced her new coach for the beginning of the 2014 season will be the experienced Swede Thomas Hogstedt who previously worked with the current world no.3 and no.4, Li Na and Maria Sharapova.
The Parisians love style so, of course, they love Roger Federer.
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