Category Archives: ATP Tour
All The Pretty Drunk Horses
World Tour Finals, Days Three and Four The World Tour Finals, still the most unfortunately acronymed tennis competition since the Surrey Hills Invitational Tournament made such a splash, has yet to break out of a lurching trot. This is through … Continue reading
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No Surprises
World Tour Finals, Days One and Two There is a certain satisfaction to be had when when things more or less turn out the way we said they would, and reality graciously yields to our preferred take on it. This is … Continue reading
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Trees and Planets
Paris Masters, Final (4) Ferrer d. (Q) Janowicz, 6/4 6/3 David Ferrer has won his first Masters title, in, of all places, Paris. He is a small man, and grew smaller still as he collapsed onto his beaming face after … Continue reading
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Luck of the Draw: World Tour Finals 2012
Having exhausted their supply of bombastic hullaballo the night before at the ominously-lit player’s party, today’s draw ceremony for the 2012 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals turned out to be a fairly muted affair. Juan Martin del Potro was on hand … Continue reading
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Variations On Lethal Power
Paris Masters, Days Three and Four Querrey d. (2) Djokovic, 0/6 7/6 6/4 (Q) Janowicz d. (3) Murray, 5/7 7/6 6/2 For the first time in precisely two years, a Masters 1000 event will be won by a player outside … Continue reading
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Six and Two
Paris Masters, Days One and Two Persistent readers of The Next Point may well have noted my enduring fondness for the European indoor season, although the I’d assert that any perversity in my regard owes not to the tournaments themselves, … Continue reading
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Those Masters Of Bright Shadow
Basel, Final (2) del Potro d. (1) Federer, 6/4 6/7 7/6 Despite some less than divine form, Roger Federer had reached a seventh consecutive final at the Swiss Indoors in Basel. There he was fated to face Juan Martin del … Continue reading
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Hearts of Gold
Vienna, Stockholm, Moscow, Finals There were three ATP finals played almost concurrently last night, or yesterday depending on your time zone of preference. All of them took place in continental Europe, and each of them was played under a roof. … Continue reading
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The Blue Shift
Stockholm, Second Round The news came in last night (over the wire) that Australia has secured a non-permanent place on the United Nations Security Council. For months we have been warned by a succession of government ministers that this was … Continue reading
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Champion Of Everything
Novak Djokovic will almost certainly finish 2012 as the No.1 ranked player in the world, or in the diffident parlance of the ATP’s marketing department, the ATP World Tour Champion. With only three weeks of the regular season left to … Continue reading
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