The Most Improved Player of the Year Award in the 2016 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon recognises the player who reached a significantly higher Emirates ATP Ranking by year’s end and who demonstrated an increasingly improved level of performance through the year. The winner, as selected by the players, will be announced ahead of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Daniel Evans “It's an honour to be nominated for this award especially with the class of the other nominees.” Entering the 2016 season, the Brit had 11 tour-level wins to his name since turning pro a decade earlier. He nearly doubled that mark this year. Evans compiled a 9-10 match record on the ATP World Tour and...
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Tomas Berdych is in unfamiliar territory this week at the BNP Paribas Masters. He is 10th in the Emirates ATP Race To London and No. 11 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, marking his first week outside of the world rankings’ Top 10 since reaching the 2010 Wimbledon final as the World No. 13. In the 329 weeks since then, Berdych has qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals and ended the year at No. 6 or No. 7 on six straight occasions. Both of those streaks are on the line Tuesday when the 2005 BNP Paribas Masters champion plays his opening match in Paris. Berdych trails Dominic Thiem and Marin Cilic for the final two vacancies at the year-end...
Barclays ATP World Tour Finals contender Dominic Thiem swept into the Erste Bank Open 500 second round on Tuesday at the expense of his Austrian compatriot, wild card Gerald Melzer, 6-0, 6-3 in 63 minutes. Thiem, who has won four ATP World Tour titles from six finals this year, is currently No. 8 in the Emirates ATP Race To London with three spots left up for grabs at the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from 13-20 November. The third seed won the first seven games, and required just 21 minutes to wrap up the first set. He broke to love for a 5-3 lead in the second set, then recovered from 15/40 when serving for...