One week ago, Grigor Dimitrov could not contain his enthusiasm as he entered The O2 for the first time. The giddy Bulgarian exclaimed that qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals "was a dream come true". There's a good chance Dimitrov is still dreaming. The sixth seed has since swept through Group Pete Sampras, ousting Dominic Thiem and David Goffin to clinch the top spot. He will look to complete a perfect run through the round-robin stage when he faces Pablo Carreno Busta on Friday evening. The 26-year-olds have split their four FedEx ATP Head2Head encounters, with all encounters coming at the biggest tournaments. In 2014 and 2015, Dimitrov claimed a pair of straight-set routs at the ATP World Tour Masters...
The future of Chinese tennis has never looked brighter than in 2017, when 18-year-old Wu Yibing burst onto the ATP World Tour. Wu became the fourth player in the past five years to win a junior Grand Slam title and an ATP Challenger Tour crown in the same season after his triumph at the US Open and the Shanghai Challenger event, which earned him a wild card into the Shanghai Rolex Masters. This week, the Chinese teenager and fellow 18-year-old, Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia, were hitting partners for some of the ATP World Tour’s biggest names at the Nitto ATP Finals in London. Both are former junior No. 1s and claimed their first ATP Challenger Tour titles in recent months...
Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus arrived at The O2 with little to no momentum from the end of their regular season, losing five of their final six matches. But that has not mattered this week at the Nitto ATP Finals. Harrison and Venus finished round-robin play with a perfect record on Thursday, defeating third-seeded Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 6-3, 7-6(5). "It's been a fun week," Harrison said. "We played a great match the first match and we were just hoping that as the week went on we were able to keep playing in good form and we've been really fortunate to keep playing well." The American-Kiwi pairing has won Group Eltingh-Haarhuis, and will play the second qualifier from Group...
Marin Cilic did not have the Nitto ATP Finals he was hoping for this week. The fifth seed fell in all three of his Group Boris Becker matches, despite pushing them to three sets and leading by a break in the third set against Alexander Zverev and Jack Sock. But when the Croatian fully looks back at his 2017 season, he will have much to be proud of this year. For the second consecutive year, Cilic will finish in the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, and for the 10th consecutive year, the 6'6” right-hander celebrated an ATP World Tour title. In May, Cilic won the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open (d. Raonic). It was his first clay-court title...
