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Top 8 Take On The Mannequin Challenge

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...

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World’s Best Gather at London Landmark to Launch Barclays ATP World Tour Finals

The world’s eight best singles players and doubles teams gathered at London’s historic Cutty Sark Thursday night for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Official Launch presented by Moët and Chandon. Cutty Sark is the legendary 19th century sailing ship, the fastest of her time, and now an award-winning tourist attraction. Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, who will battle at the season-ending tournament to become year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, were joined by Stan Wawrinka, Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori, Gael Monfils, Marin Cilic and Dominic Thiem. Also attending were the world’s top eight doubles teams, including Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, and Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares, who will fight for the year-end No. 1 doubles...

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