Kei Nishikori produced a devastating service display against Stan Wawrinka on Monday at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The fifth-seeded Japanese star lost just 11 of his service points in a 6-2, 6-3 victory over 67 minutes to start off his Group John McEnroe campaign in style. Nishikori, who is competing at The O2 in London for the third straight year, beat Wawrinka for the third time in seven meetings for his 58th match win of the season. This week, he’ll be hoping to improve on his 2014 debut semi-final run. “I felt very comfortable out there,” said Nishikori. “I started very well, [right] from the first game. I saw that he wasn't playing his best and he was...
Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram caused an upset on Monday at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals when they defeated Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who are vying to become the year-end No. 1 pair in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings. Klaasen and Ram won 7-5, 6-4 in 83 minutes in a Group Fleming/McEnroe round-robin encounter, which avenged their loss to Herbert and Mahut in this year’s final of the Miami Open presented by Itau. Had Herbert and Mahut won the match, then Mahut would have become the first Frenchman in the 40-year history of the Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings to finish as the year-end individual No. 1. Herbert and Mahut are now just 375 points ahead of Jamie...
Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray react to their opening win at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals against Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi on Sunday evening at The O2.
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Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic are locked in a high-stakes battle for the coveted year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Ranking at this week’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Murray, who rose to World No. 1 for the first time in his career on 7 November after winning the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris, is hoping to become just the 17th man in history (since 1973) to finish a season at No. 1. Djokovic is looking to finish No. 1 for the third consecutive year and for the fifth time overall. The last time a World No. 2 dethroned the incumbent World No. 1 at the season finale to claim the prestigious year-end No. 1 title was back in 2001, when Lleyton...