[b]One of the few players who looks to be fully fit, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, faces in Rafael Nadal a player who is anything but fit. Side with the big-serving Frenchman to send Nadal home, says Sean Calvert.[/b]
As I said yesterday, there's every chance of you getting a game if you take your kit and hang around the O2 long enough and it just got weirder at the World Tour Finals on Wednesday.
After having had a match point, first alternate Janko Tipsarevic fell over when match point down to my tip Tomas Berdych and left the court limping and defeated.
And then we saw David Ferrer beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets - the first time that's happened in a year and the worst performance by the Djoker all year in, his own words.
Regular readers might recall that I backed Ferrer to...
It was another good week on the tipping front in Paris at the BNP Paribas Masters where my long shot Gael Monfils proved to be an excellent trade at an opening price of [20].
And so the 2010 season draws to a close with the final event of the year - the [b]Barclays ATP World Tour Finals[/b] at the O2 in London.
Billed as the top eight players on the planet battling it out in a 'Final Showdown' the reality might prove to be more like creaking and groaning their respective ways to a well-earned holiday, but there could be a spot of value around this week nonetheless.
The players are split into two groups of four and each player in the group has three games against the others in a round robin format, with the two most successful from each group going forward to the semi finals....