Archive: tomas-berdych
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.
It will be a tale of two very different matchups on Wednesday at the World Tour Finals. Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka both handed out 6-1, 6-1 breadsticks in their opening matches on Monday. The winner of their showdown will be almost--if not officially--a lock to reach the semifinals. On the other hand, Tomas Berdych and Marin Cilic are in dire need of a win.
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.
It’s what all the cool kids do. Such can be the lottery of ticket-buying for the World Tour Finals, you have to feel for ticket holders for either the day session, the night session or, heaven forefend, both sessions on Day 2, when the crowd were treated to two one-sided encounters that both ended in an hour (but remember, tube time, so bonus).
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.
Tomas Berdych's self-admitted worst performance of 2014 coincided with Stan Wawrinka's best match of this fall swing. The result was a 6-1, 6-1 blowout in the Swiss' favor that lasted a mere 58 minutes. Wawrinka is now 1-0 in round-robin competition at the World Tour Finals, while Berdych is 0-1 and likely to be in a serious tiebreaker deficit having won only two games.
Group B play at the World Tour Finals will begin on Monday after Group A action got started with wins by Roger Federer and Kei Nishikori. Stan Wawrinka and Tomas Berdych will kick off the Day 2 proceedings in the afternoon, to be followed by Novak Djokovic vs. Marin Cilic. Of the four, only Cilic has never previously made a London appearance.
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.
Barclays tennis begins on Sunday in London ,please look at Ricky's observations & watch on TV on tennis channel.
The World Tour Finals draw ceremony was held on Monday afternoon. With only eight players in the field, it did not take long for everything to be figured out. Novak Djokovic was already guaranteed to be in Group A as the No. 1 player in the world and No. 1 seed, while Roger Federer was assured of being in Group B at No. 2. That left only six men to be drawn.
Check out the latest photos from the 2014 BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament in Paris, France.
Milos Raonic, clinging on to the possibility of making the top eight for the ATP Finals in London, finally worked out a way to beat Roger Federer in the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Masters here, winning a tight struggle 7-6, 7-5.
Andy Murray's late-season surge officially has him in the World Tour Finals after the Scot rolled over Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-3 in the third round of the BNP Paribas Masters on Thursday afternoon. Murray, who is 20-2 since the U.S. Open with all three of his 2014 titles coming this fall, cruised into the Paris quarterfinals and set up a showdown with world No. 1 Novak Djokovic.
The stakes cannot get much higher at a Masters 1000 event. Not only is the BNP Paribas Masters title on the line, but there are also four World Tour Finals spots left to be decided this week in Paris. Six contenders are battling for the remaining berths in London: Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer, Milos Raonic, and Grigor Dimitrov.
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