Aligning the Top 8 players outside their private locker rooms might have been the easiest part of pulling off the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals mannequin challenge on Thursday night. The hardest part: Getting them to stand still and stop telling jokes. The always entertaining Gael Monfils was his usual self, sharing laughs in French with Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss was improvising as well, playing director and changing how he'd hold his racquet. [ALSO LIKE] New World No. 1 Andy Murray might have had the toughest job. The Scot had to hold his arm steady for about a minute, long enough for the mannequin challenge and the Top 8 selfie. “Can't. Stop. Shaking,” he said. All told, it took about...
Suited and booted ready for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Official Launch, the top eight singles players take on the latest viral craze - the Mannequin Challenge - before they leave The O2.
The world's eight best singles players and doubles teams, along with 2016 ATP World Tour Awards winners, gather at London's historic Cutty Sark for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Official Launch presented by Moët and Chandon.
“I still feel that my best years are ahead,” said Andy Murray this summer, during a sponsor appearance at the Thruxton race track in Hampshire. History and precedent were against him, because only one man in the modern era – Andre Agassi – has won multiple Grand Slam titles after his 30th birthday. Murray turned 29 in May. Yet from that moment in early June when he made his claim, standing alongside the WWII aircraft hangars at the side of the track, Murray produced the most dominant sequence of his career. The statistics were extraordinary. Going into next week’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, he has lost just three matches since Roland Garros. In a twist that no one would...
Having this week conquered the truest test of real quality and consistency, the ascent to No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, will this year's Barclays ATP World Tour Finals be a glorious homecoming for Andy Murray? The Scot has competed at the prestigious season finale on seven occasions, but only three times has he graced the semi-finals: in 2008 (l. to Davydenko), when the event was held in Shanghai, China, and in 2010 (l. to Nadal) and 2012 (l. to Federer) at The O2 in London. "It’s been a great year and I want to finish as well as I can," said Murray. "I'm not so much thinking about finishing as the World No. 1. I just want to...