We have reached the last tournament of the ATP season featuring the 8 best players of the year competing for the ultimate honor in men’s tennis. Let’s take a look at the two groups and who will feature in each one.
Group A:
1. Novak Djokovic
3. Andy Murray
5. David Ferrer
7. Tomas Berdych
Group B:
2. Rafael Nadal
4. Roger Federer
6. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
8. Mardy Fish
Play is due to start on Sunday November 20, 2011 at 7 am Eastern time with coverage being streamed on the Tennis Channel in the US. First up is Group B with Federer vs Tsonga and later on Nadal vs Fish. There should be some very good tennis up on display during the week and it will be exciting to see which of the Top 4 will hold up best, or if a dark horse should emerge from the shadows to claim the title at this year’s year-ending championships. Stay tuned!
We aren’t even half way through the year and Rafael Nadal has already become the first player to qualify for the year end ATP World Tour Finals. The ATP World Finals will be taking place at the famous O2 Arena in London starting on the 22nd of November. The tournament will feature the world’s top eight singles players and eight doubles teams.
Nadal already has a 41-4 record this season with a Grand Slam win at the Australian Open and three ATP Masters series titles.
“I am very happy to have officially qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals. To qualify for the event in London is great as it was one of my goals of the season and clearly something important that shows that this season has already been a great success for me,” Nadal said in a statement posted at the ATP World Tour website.
The ATP World Tour Finals is going to be a very big affair with already 150,000 tickets sold and only 65,000 left. If you want to head to the event then make sure you get in now because I’m sure they will be all gone by the end of June.
