2019 ATP Race to London

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2019 ATP Race to London

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Albot *4-3 up in that second set but then loses 9 of the next 10 games, or Gael wins them if you prefer. Big match against Shapo. Still think it's reasonably likely the 9th player will end up involved and I'd rather Gael in than RBA, so don't really mind who wins that Monfils match tomorrow.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Albot *4-3 up in that second set but then loses 9 of the next 10 games, or Gael wins them if you prefer. Big match against Shapo. Still think it's reasonably likely the 9th player will end up involved and I'd rather Gael in than RBA, so don't really mind who wins that Monfils match tomorrow.

Monfils not only needs to beat Shapovalov to pass Berrettini, he needs the win to pass RBA. Monfils is live 10th, still 10 points behind RBA.

Lose and RBA, as first alternate, would be the immediate beneficiary of any pull out from the top 8.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Albot *4-3 up in that second set but then loses 9 of the next 10 games, or Gael wins them if you prefer. Big match against Shapo. Still think it's reasonably likely the 9th player will end up involved and I'd rather Gael in than RBA, so don't really mind who wins that Monfils match tomorrow.
Monfils not only needs to beat Shapovalov to pass Berrettini, he needs the win to pass RBA. Monfils is live 10th, still 10 points behind RBA.
Lose and RBA, as first alternate, would be the immediate beneficiary of any pull out from the top 8.

Yeah, I'd definitely prefer Berrettini out of the 3, but I just find RBA so boring and would rather he wasn't involved, so it's a difficult one for me.

I can see a Nadal, or perhaps one of his fellow big 3 pulling out, and in that scenario, I'd much rather have Gael and Matteo in the line up than Matteo and RBA, so I might be leaning towards preferring a Gael win, and then if there is a withdrawal, a player I like would benefit rather than someone I didn't, if that makes sense.

Plus if nobody pulled out then it's still been an amazing season for Matteo and it will be an extra incentive to maintain / push on next season having (potentially) just missed out.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

As well as Shapo played, a bit of a damp squib from Monfils, losing 2 and 2 in less than an hour.

So, Nadal, Djokovic, Federer, Medvedev, Thiem, Tsitsipas, Zverev and Berrettini complete the O2 line up. RBA and Monfils the 2 alts.

flamingowings · All-time great

Ace Ventura wrote:
As well as Shapo played, a bit of a damp squib from Monfils, losing 2 and 2 in less than an hour.

So, Nadal, Djokovic, Federer, Medvedev, Thiem, Tsitsipas, Zverev and Berrettini complete the O2 line up. RBA and Monfils the 2 alts.

So...La Monfs was himself then? Good line up - and not a servebot to be seen!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

With Djokovic winning Paris, it means race for top spot is well a d truly alive in london, I suspect this will mean rafa will certainly play, if he was wavering. Good news for the event

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Draw for the finals - singles

Group A (A) and B (B)

Group Andre Agassi: Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev

Group Bjorn Borg: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Dominic Thiem, Matteo Berrettini

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Doubles draw:

Group M (M) and Group Jonas Bjorkman

Cabal/Farah
Krawietz/Mies
Rojer/Tecau
Herbert/Mahut

and the big one

Kubot/Melo
RAM/SALISBURY
Klaasen/Venus
Dodig/Polasek

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

So assuming Group A starts on Sunday. Group B on Monday with Djokovic probably playing Berrettini. Then assuming Djokovic and Fed both win then Wednesday night could see Djoko vs Fed...ooh I wonder if there are tickets left. Of course if you book tickets now, Thiem will probably end up beating Fed, so you would see Djoko vs Thiem.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Still expecting RBA to come in for Nadal which would change things, but for now, they do look well balanced groups. Good that Med, Tsitsipas and Zverev are all in a group and we should get some good matches, and with Nadal's situation, even if he does play a match and withdraw like a couple of years ago, there's a fairly decent chance that 2 of them will go through.

Sunday
2pm - Djok vs Berrettini
8pm - Thiem vs Federer

Monday
2pm - Tsitsipas vs Medvedev
8pm - Nadal vs Zverev

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Born2WinTennis wrote:
So assuming Group A starts on Sunday. Group B on Monday with Djokovic probably playing Berrettini. Then assuming Djokovic and Fed both win then Wednesday night could see Djoko vs Fed...ooh I wonder if there are tickets left. Of course if you book tickets now, Thiem will probably end up beating Fed, so you would see Djoko vs Thiem.

Good plan, apart from it is the other way around according to Ace Ventura's post - Group Borg kicks things off, so Djoko v Fed would be on Tuesday if they both win, Thursday if one wins only

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Still expecting RBA to come in for Nadal which would change things, but for now, they do look well balanced groups. Good that Med, Tsitsipas and Zverev are all in a group and we should get some good matches, and with Nadal's situation, even if he does play a match and withdraw like a couple of years ago, there's a fairly decent chance that 2 of them will go through.

Sunday
2pm - Djok vs Berrettini
8pm - Thiem vs Federer

Monday
2pm - Tsitsipas vs Medvedev
8pm - Nadal vs Zverev

Full schedule incl doubles is announced in fact and Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram kick things off. Presumably the bbc still showing the 2pm matches each day, so Djoko v Berrettini and Tsitsipas v Medvedev are actually good matches for introducing new talent to a wider audience

SCHEDULE - SUNDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2019

CENTRE COURT start 12:00 noon
[4] R. Ram (USA) / J. Salisbury (GBR) vs [5] R. Klaasen (RSA) / M. Venus (NZL)

Not Before 2:00 pm
[2] N. Djokovic (SRB) vs [8] M. Berrettini (ITA)

Not Before 6:00 pm
[2] L. Kubot (POL) / M. Melo (BRA) vs [8] I. Dodig (CRO) / F. Polasek (SVK)

Not Before 8:00 pm
[3] R. Federer (SUI) vs [5] D. Thiem (AUT)

SCHEDULE - MONDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2019

CENTRE COURT start 12:00 noon
[3] K. Krawietz (GER) / A. Mies (GER) vs [6] J. Rojer (NED) / H. Tecau (ROU)

Not Before 2:00 pm
[4] D. Medvedev (RUS) vs [6] S. Tsitsipas (GRE)

Not Before 6:00 pm
[1] J. Cabal (COL) / R. Farah (COL) vs [7] P. Herbert (FRA) / N. Mahut (FRA)

Not Before 8:00 pm
[1] R. Nadal (ESP) vs [7] A. Zverev (GER)

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Quelle surprise - the G-Cheat-OAT has the simplest draw.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ive been watching some of the highlights from Milan tonight and have to say, have been thoroughly entertained. I have to say, the idea of an U21 World masters works well for me, relative to the pointless B Finals of the Elite Trophy in the ladies. The crowds in Milan looked strong, certainly in the evening, the atmosphere was good, tennis seemed good and players seemed up for it. The new first to 4, 5 set scoring system works well as well, max length of a match is thus 35 games and maybe 2 1/2 hours max, and yet has a 5 set feel about it.

Good stuff and also good to see Sinner get a win for Italy in the last match this evening