Week 47 - ATP Tour Finals - London

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 47 - ATP Tour Finals - London

The Hoose · Satellite level

Worst draw possible in my opinion.

steven · Tennis legend

If there were a pick 'em for the WTF, I'd definitely go for Nole to win it having seen this draw. Whoever emerges from the nightmare that is Group A is likely to be too knackered to succeed in the KO stages.

Still, it's tennis, you never know!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

It's not a great draw for Murray but it's not too bad to be honest, and I would only swap Federer and Nadal for him if I had a choice, but even then, Federer isn't playing well at the moment and Murray's got a great record against him.

Del Potro has done nothing since winning the US Open and is totally out of form, while Davydenko has been playing some good tennis recently and as we have seen in the past has the game to beat Murray and could well do, while Murray's game matches up better to Del Potro than Davydenko.

And Verdasco, bar the Aussie Open win, has not looked like beating Murray in any of their meetings and seems to have barely beaten any top players this year, but has also just lived up to his seeding.

I'd expect Murray to get through to the semi-finals at the very least (where I'd bank on Djokovic also getting through while the other spot could go to anyone... potentially Soderling given how his game matches up to Nadal and Davy).

Drew · Nov 18, 2009

Im more worried about Delpo and Verdasco than Fed TBH...

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Delpo has retired from his last 2 tournaments - maybe we don't need to be too worried.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Probably a daft question but will team A play first? Teams have previously been named by colours from what I remember. Just hoping the A team play Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday as I have Tuesday tickets and that group is certainly the one I'd rather watch.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Well, if the BBC have any say in the matter, Andy will play Sunday afternoon as that is the only match the Beeb are showing!

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Not too bad a draw if you look into it.

Fed out of sorts at the moment, not too sure how concetrated he will be

Del Potro is still recovering from injury and could hardly serve or move last week, he won't be fully fit come Sunday

And Verdasco in my eyes is the worst player at London, plus Andy has a great record against him.

Where as by being no.4 Andy avoided Djokovic who is the man everyone wanted to avoid. Davydenko beat Andy at these finals last year and also won Shanghai 1000 not too long ago. Whereas Soderling is an unknown against Murray.

So I don't think it's too bad a draw. His H2H against the 3 are 17-5 where had he swapped with Djokovic it would have been 9-12

airsmashers · County player

A little interview with Andy talking about WTF plus a short clip of him as a 14 year old saying in 4 year time he wanted to be in the top 100

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Media/Videos/2009/11/ATP-Uncovered-S1-E11-Andy-Murray.aspx

steven · Tennis legend

CENTRE COURT start 12:30 pm

[1] D Nestor (CAN / N Zimonjic (SRB) vs [8] M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL)

Not Before 2:15 pm
[4] A Murray (GBR) vs [5] J del Potro (ARG)

At 7:00 pm
[3] M Bhupathi (IND) / M Knowles (BAH) vs [5] F Cermak (CZE) / M Mertinak (SVK)

Not Before 8:45 pm
[1] R Federer (SUI) vs [7] F Verdasco (ESP)

I'll be there on Sunday - is anyone else going?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

no, I'll be on a plane heading to sunny (i hope) Florida for 2 weeks

bit of a break there in the middle, but i guess there's plenty to keep you occupied at the dome in between.

seagull · Hall of fame

steven wrote:

CENTRE COURT start 12:30 pm

[1] D Nestor (CAN / N Zimonjic (SRB) vs [8] M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL)

Not Before 2:15 pm
[4] A Murray (GBR) vs [5] J del Potro (ARG)

At 7:00 pm
[3] M Bhupathi (IND) / M Knowles (BAH) vs [5] F Cermak (CZE) / M Mertinak (SVK)

Not Before 8:45 pm
[1] R Federer (SUI) vs [7] F Verdasco (ESP)

I'll be there on Sunday - is anyone else going?

Great news - I will be there Sunday afternoon

Count Zero · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:

steven wrote:

CENTRE COURT start 12:30 pm

[1] D Nestor (CAN / N Zimonjic (SRB) vs [8] M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL)

Not Before 2:15 pm
[4] A Murray (GBR) vs [5] J del Potro (ARG)

At 7:00 pm
[3] M Bhupathi (IND) / M Knowles (BAH) vs [5] F Cermak (CZE) / M Mertinak (SVK)

Not Before 8:45 pm
[1] R Federer (SUI) vs [7] F Verdasco (ESP)

I'll be there on Sunday - is anyone else going?

Great news - I will be there Sunday afternoon

if you meet make sure you give him a evileye

for all his doubting of rankings predictions.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Madeline wrote:

Well, if the BBC have any say in the matter, Andy will play Sunday afternoon as that is the only match the Beeb are showing!

Told ya!