Throughout my 16-year career, I've played in hundreds of tennis stadiums. I've slid on the grass on Centre Court at the All-England Club. I've gazed at the Mediterranean Sea from the red clay of the Monte-Carlo Country Club. In Indian Wells, I've lost track of time staring at the Palm Desert mountains while in town for the BNP Paribas Open. But nowhere, including the many indoor tournaments we play annually, prepared me for playing at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. To put it simply, everything is different at The O2. Let's start with the lights. For about 10 months of the year, we play our matches outside. Sometimes the sun blocks your vision of your ball toss. Other days,...
The winner of Thursday's match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals between Austria's Dominic Thiem and Canada's Milos Raonic will qualify for Saturday's semi-finals as the runner-up in Group Ivan Lendl. Thiem is the youngest man to win a singles match at The O2 since 2009. Any young Austrian tennis player will find himself toiling in the long alpine shadow of Thomas Muster, a former World No. 1. And yet it's perfectly possible that Thiem, a debutant at the season finale, could today out-perform Muster by qualifying for the semi-finals. For all his other achievements, ‘The Iron Man of Tennis’ never did that. "A star is born - big hug," Jose Mourinho wrote on the back of his...
Watch highlights from the fourth day of action at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Stan Wawrinka fended off a spirited effort from Marin Cilic to gain an opening victory. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Peter Staples / ATP World Tour
Note: Story updated after Novak Djokovic's straight-sets win over David Goffin Thursday. Who is going to finish the year No. 1? More than half-way through the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, we’re not much closer to an answer. Neither Andy Murray nor Novak Djokovic is giving each other an inch in the battle to finish No. 1 in the year-end Emirates ATP Rankings. Both remain undefeated in round-robin play, with Djokovic already booking his spot in the semi-finals after a perfect 3-0 record over the first five days. Having played one more match than Murray, Djokovic is effectively 70 points ahead of the Scot. But if Murray picks up 200 points by winning his final round-robin match Friday against Stan...
Missed a moment of the action from Wednesday at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals? Here’s your executive summary 1) Murray Prevails In Record-Breaking Match In a grueling battle that lasted three hours and 21 minutes, World No. 1 Andy Murray improved to 2-0 in Group John McEnroe with a 6-7(9), 6-4, 6-4 win over fifth seed Kei Nishikori. It was the longest best-of-three sets match at the year-end championships (since 1991, when records were first kept). Read Match Report Murray’s win also means his battle with Novak Djokovic to finish the year at the top of the Emirates ATP Rankings continues to heat up. Both Murray and Djokovic can leave London as World No. 1 by winning the title....