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...
Suited and booted ready for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Official Launch, the top eight singles players take on the latest viral craze - the Mannequin Challenge - before they leave The O2.
The world's eight best singles players and doubles teams, along with 2016 ATP World Tour Awards winners, gather at London's historic Cutty Sark for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Official Launch presented by Moët and Chandon.
How could anyone ever suggest Stan Wawrinka is a conformist when he dared to wear patterned ‘country club’ shorts, which clashed with the rest of his outfit, for one Grand Slam final, and then opted for a uniform shade of fuscia, right down to his watch strap, for another? Wawrinka is most certainly not as other men or, more precisely, is not of the same sort of character as the other four players to have dominated tennis during what is widely regarded to have been a golden era for the ATP World Tour. Of course, no one seriously believes that Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray all have the same, or even strikingly similar, characters (this isn’t...
Nicknames stick with Stan Wawrinka. He answers to the catchy “Stan The Man” and Roger Federer aptly coined him “Stanimal”, while watching Wawrinka roll through the 2014 Australian Open. But perhaps the most accurate nickname for Wawrinka, who heads to the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for the fourth consecutive year, is a hybrid of his two popular monikers: “Stan The Big Match Man”. Few players on the ATP World Tour have been more clutch than Wawrinka in big matches, and the World No. 3 will try to tap into that prowess at The O2 in London from 13-20 November, where he's searching for his first championship at the season finale. [ALSO LIKE] He will play only the best players in...