The eight-player singles field for the 2016 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is set. Following results on Friday at the BNP Paribas Masters, Dominic Thiem clinches the final spot at the prestigious season-ending tournament, to be held from 13-20 November at The O2 in London. The 23-year-old Thiem will make his debut at The O2 and is the first Austrian singles player to qualify for the event since former World No. 1 Thomas Muster in 1997. Buy Your Tickets Now Eight different countries will be represented as Thiem joins four-time defending champion and 2008 titlist Novak Djokovic of Serbia, Andy Murray of Great Britain, Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland, Kei Nishikori of Japan, Milos Raonic of Canada, fellow debutant Gael Monfils...
The last of eight spots available at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals was claimed by Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi on Thursday. Huey/Mirnyi lost in the first round of the BNP Paribas Masters earlier this week, but secured their first team qualification when defending London champions Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau fell in the second round of Paris. Huey/Mirnyi have one title as a team, winning in Acapulco earlier this year. It will be Huey's first trip to the year-end championships, while Mirnyi has qualified 10 times, winning in 2011 alongside Daniel Nestor. Get Your Tickets Now Joining Mirnyi/Huey at the O2 on 13 November will be Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who reclaimed the No. 1 spot...
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Henri Kontinen and John Peers will make their team debut at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals next month. The Finn/Aussie pairing became the seventh doubles team to qualify for the year-end championships on Monday with a 6-2, 6-2 rout against Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. “We knew what we had to do and it was good to be able to do it,” Peers said. Buy Tickets Kontinen/Peers converted all four break points and erased the only two break points they faced in the 46-minute victory. They'll face seventh seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in the second round. “We're going to finish here, try to concentrate here on every match,” Kontinen said,...
