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.
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...
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...
“I still feel that my best years are ahead,” said Andy Murray this summer, during a sponsor appearance at the Thruxton race track in Hampshire. History and precedent were against him, because only one man in the modern era – Andre Agassi – has won multiple Grand Slam titles after his 30th birthday. Murray turned 29 in May. Yet from that moment in early June when he made his claim, standing alongside the WWII aircraft hangars at the side of the track, Murray produced the most dominant sequence of his career. The statistics were extraordinary. Going into next week’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, he has lost just three matches since Roland Garros. In a twist that no one would...
Two years on from gritting his teeth through compulsory military training in Austria, Dominic Thiem is now among the elite eight, who are set to compete on the illuminated blue court, at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. “In 2014, it was difficult for me to have a decent off-season, but last year I watched it and thought the [Barclays ATP World Tour] Finals was so difficult to amass so many [Emirates ATP Rankings] points, to compile so many good results,” Thiem told ATPWorldTour.com. “So to have qualified is a big dream.” Watch: The Story Of Thiem The youngest player in the field at The O2 in London is also the first Austrian to compete at the year-end championships since...