Grigor Dimitrov finished the best season of his career with the biggest title of his life. The Bulgarian won his fifth consecutive match at the Nitto ATP Finals on Sunday, beating David Goffin 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to win the season-ending championships during his debut. It's the fourth title of Dimitrov's 2017 – a career-high – and the eighth of his career. The right-hander was already going to climb to a career-high No. 3 in the year-end Emirates ATP Rankings. But now he'll do so emphatically and with a heap of momentum heading into his 2018 season. “This makes me even more locked in, more excited about my work, and for what's to come,” Dimitrov said. “It's a great platform for...
Watch highlights as Henri Kontinen and John Peers retain their title at the season finale with a victory against top-seeded Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo. Photo Credit: Thomas Lovelock/ATP World Tour. Watch live tennis at TennisTV.com.
They may not be finishing the season with the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Doubles Team Ranking, but Henri Kontinen and John Peers aren’t leaving the Nitto ATP Finals without hardware. After producing a serving masterclass, Kontinen and Peers defeated top-seeded Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, 6-4, 6-2, in 70 minutes to retain their title at the season finale. A year after capturing the trophy in London in their team debut, Kontinen and Peers won four straight matches after dropping their round-robin opener against eighth-seeded Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus to clinch the triumph at The O2 without losing a set in the semi-finals or final. They are the first pair to win back-to-back titles at the season finale since...
Former players from the 1990s involved in the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals were welcomed to The O2, venue of the season finale in London, this week. Boris Becker, the 1988, 1992 and 1995 champion, 1998 titlist Alex Corretja, and former World No. 1s Stefan Edberg (1989 winner) and Yevgeny Kafelnikov took part in this week’s celebrations, while those working on-site - 1994 doubles titlist Jonas Bjorkman (w/Apell) and Carlos Moya - were also honoured. More than 30 players, who featured in the year-end singles and doubles championships from the 1990s, travelled to the English capital as part of The Finals Club, an initiative established in 2015 that welcomes some of the game’s former greats from the past 47 years to...
