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2014 ATP World Tour Finals

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Rabbit of Caerbannog

Rabbit of Caerbannog

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Group A:

1. Djokovic
3. Wawrinka
6. Berdych
8. Cilic

Group B:

2. Federer
4. Nishikori
5. Murray
7. Raonic

I don't see how Djokovic loses here. Clean sweep without a set lost could be on the cards. Interesting to see how Fed and Wawrinka play with the Davis Cup final shortly after this tournament.

Group matches played at 1 am and 7 am AEDT beginning Monday.
 
Djokovic will surely breeze through his group. The other group is interesting and with Raonic beating Federer (while being schooled by Djokovic) it could come up with anything
 
Murray vs. Nishikori first up on Monday Morning at 1am with Federer/Raonic on at 7am.

Wawrinka vs. Berdych first up on Tuesday at 1am and Djokovic vs. Cilic at 7am.
 

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nishikori beat murray 6-4 6-4
Federer bears Raonic 6-1 7-6
 
Was stunned to see Nishikori spank Murray - went to bed with Nishikori struggling to drop in a serve, and down a break.

Murray has gone back to his defensive, angry self ever since Lendl left. Why did he go.
 
I wouldn't necessarily call it a 'spanking', Nishikori has just learned how to get the win regardless of his touch on a given day (like all the very best players). It's certainly a really competitive group.

Wawrinka was in rare form. Maybe the heat Nishikori is applying on #4 has woken him up a little, particularly with not many tournaments between now and the next slam. He has a lot of points to defend in January as well (he also won Chennai in 2014 from memory).

Djokovic looks like he wants it, so has to be the favourite for now. Although, a couple others are certainly capable of taking the thing out with the right draw and form on the day.
 
Wawrinka was certainly in great form, hitting winners left and right, but Berdych was awful. Nothing was working, not even the serve and forehand.

I didn't see Djokovic and Cilic, but the score says it all really.

Today's matches should be more competitive at least. Nishikori has a 2-2 h2h with Fed and Raonic has done quite well against Murray in the past.
 
pepsi said:
I'm hoping we see a competitive match because we've had straight set matches so far.
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Time is running out. What a disaster this tournament has been.

6-1, 7-6 (88 minutes)
6-4, 6-4 (95 minutes)
6-1, 6-1 (56 minutes)
6-1, 6-1 (58 minutes)
6-3, 6-2 (69 minutes)
6-3, 7-5 (91 minutes)
6-3, 6-1 (75 minutes)
6-3, 6-0 (65 minutes)
 
Rabbit of Caerbannog said:
Time is running out. What a disaster this tournament has been.

6-1, 7-6 (88 minutes)
6-4, 6-4 (95 minutes)
6-1, 6-1 (56 minutes)
6-1, 6-1 (58 minutes)
6-3, 6-2 (69 minutes)
6-3, 7-5 (91 minutes)
6-3, 6-1 (75 minutes)
6-3, 6-0 (65 minutes)
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Not a pretty picture ay. Hopefully Fed/Murray & Nishikori/Raonic can produce better contests in the enxt round
 

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Dannnnnnnnnn said:
Well that backfired. :drunk:

Didn't get to watch but surely Murray was just pathetically bad.
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Replica of the Djokovic v Berdych match. Even the after-match comments were similar from Murray.

Strange comment from Roger though.


There is no way he could genuinely have that feeling when he's that close to a double bagel. Gifting people games isn't in his genes, that's how he's become such a huge champ.
 
Rabbit of Caerbannog said:
Time is running out. What a disaster this tournament has been.

6-1, 7-6 (88 minutes)
6-4, 6-4 (95 minutes)
6-1, 6-1 (56 minutes)
6-1, 6-1 (58 minutes)
6-3, 6-2 (69 minutes)
6-3, 7-5 (91 minutes)
6-3, 6-1 (75 minutes)
6-3, 6-0 (65 minutes)
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Long season taking it's toll. Wonder what the appearance money v. prize money is. Few of those guys busted their nuts to make the 8 and then gave up without a yelp. Will be interesting if the Indian league ends up similar, will die off pretty quick if so.
 
Fed wins 8-6 in the 3rd set TB. He saved 4 match points; 3rd match this year he has won from match points down. Hope both can recover physically (and mentally in Stan's case) for the Davis Cup in less than a week.

Djokovic in 2 comfortable sets in the final tomorrow.
 
Djokovic seems to be back to his best at the moment. Other than that second set against Kei, he has been absolutely trouncing his opponents. Djokovic vs. Federer is a real heavy weight WTF Final, what is that now, 10 titles between them?
 
Hamingja said:
Long season taking it's toll. Wonder what the appearance money v. prize money is. Few of those guys busted their nuts to make the 8 and then gave up without a yelp. Will be interesting if the Indian league ends up similar, will die off pretty quick if so.
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Forgot about that Indian league - looking forward to it, but after the disaster of this tournament I don't expect the players to give a crap. Will be good to see Agassi, Rafter etc. Will it be televised on fox?

The thing I don't get is that although the matches have been so bad, the arena has been jam packed every single match.
 

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Been catching up last few day on the matches, had the final ready to watch tonight, a bit disappointing to say the least.... The Wawrinka/federer match was the only highlight. Murray's effort against federer was deadset laughable but not surprising.
 

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