Nitto ATP Finals 2017

[Damian]

Finał H2H

[7] David Goffin (BEL) 1 - 4 [6] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)

[Lleyton]

Rivalry Renewed In Doubles Final

Spoiler:

The top two teams on the ATP World Tour square off in the final in London

It will be No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the doubles championship of the Nitto ATP Finals, when Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo duel with Henri Kontinen and John Peers.

The hottest rivalry of the year on the ATP World Tour doubles circuit will have a fitting conclusion on Sunday at The O2 in London. Kubot and Melo secured the year-end No. 1 position in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings, but Kontinen and Peers enter as the defending champions at the season finale. Both teams will be keen to cap their campaigns with a trophy, as the curtain falls on 2017.

While the top-seeded Polish-Brazilian duo celebrated a more successful season overall, they struggled to find any consistent gains against their Finnish-Aussie counterparts. Kontinen and Peers own a 3-1 FedEx ATP Head2Head advantage, notching victories at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Rome, as well as in the Citi Open and Shanghai Rolex Masters finals.

"Here we are again and hopefully we get to repeat," said Kontinen. "We played them in a couple finals this year and the Wimbledon semis. It went both ways, so it's going to be a tough battle. They are well-deserved No. 1s this year."

"Definitely looking forward to coming out there and playing them tomorrow," Peers added. "It's going to come down to a few points here and there. Hopefully it will go our way."

FedEx ATP Head2Head (all meetings in 2017)
Tournament
Surface Round
Winner
Shanghai
Hard
Final
Kontinen/Peers
Washington
Hard Final
Kontinen/Peers
Wimbledon
Grass
SF
Kubot/Melo
Rome Clay
QF
Kontinen/Peers

But while the Finn and the Aussie scored more wins in their budding rivalry, Kubot and Melo captured arguably the match of the year. With a spot in the Wimbledon championship on the line, they would survive a five-set semi-final thriller 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-2, 4-6, 9-7 in three hours and 32 minutes.

Despite both dropping a match in the group stage this week, the teams found their top form in Saturday's semi-finals. Melo and Kubot routed eighth seeds Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus 6-1, 6-4 and Kontinen and Peers downed fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 7-6(2), 6-2.

The Brazilian-Polish tandem are seeking a milestone win on Sunday, vying for their 50th match victory of the year. It will be their 10th title match in total, having lifted trophies on six occasions: the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 stops in Miami, Madrid and Paris, in addition to the grass-court events in 's-Hertogenbosch, Halle and Wimbledon. Melo will be making his second appearance in the final at the season finale, having finished runner-up alongside Ivan Dodig in 2014. He is looking to become the first Brazilian to win the Nitto ATP Finals title, while Kubot is hoping to do the same for Poland.

Reigning champions Kontinen and Peers, meanwhile, carry a 41-17 win-loss mark into the final and will be bolstered by a 4-0 record in title matches. They emerged victorious at the Australian Open to open the year, followed by the ATP World Tour 500 events in Washington and Beijing and the Shanghai Rolex Masters.

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[Damian]

Plan gier na niedzielę:

Kort centralny - start o 16:30:
[2] H. Kontinen (FIN)/J. Peers (AUS) vs [1] Łukasz Kubot (POL)/Marcelo Melo (BRA)

Nie przed 19:
[6] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) vs [7] David Goffin (BEL)

[Barty]

[DUN I LOVE]

No i nie dały rady klapki, ale sezon i tak kozacki w ich wykonaniu.

[Damian]

metro.co.uk

Goffin Eyes Dimitrov Revenge In Season Finale Decider
Grigor Dimitrov will meet David Goffin for the fifth time in 2017 in the Nitto ATP Finals.

Spoiler:

When David Goffin arrived in a cold, overcast London less than a fortnight ago, he had never beaten Rafael Nadal, nor Roger Federer. He had never previously qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals outright – just a sole appearance as an alternate for the injured Gael Monfils last year, a match in which he salvaged just three games from Novak Djokovic.

Grigor Dimitrov had never qualified for the season finale before. He was more familiar with London in the summer, when intermittent rain made way for blazing bursts of sun on Centre Court at Wimbledon or at Queen’s Club for the Aegon Championships.

Now under the roof of The O2, it is down to the final match of the season in the British capital and these two men stand on the cusp of the biggest title so far of their careers. They have crossed paths once already in this year’s Nitto ATP Finals, in the round-robin stage, where Dimitrov inflicted a brutal 6-0, 6-2 defeat.

He admitted everything he touched turned to gold in that clash. But that result alone doesn’t tell the full story of their respective journeys to reach Sunday’s final.

Goffin’s group-stage results were at opposite ends of the spectrum. Following the elation of becoming the first Belgian man to beat a World No. 1 with his upset of Rafael Nadal in his opening match, he fell swiftly to Dimitrov before rebounding in style to see off No. 4 seed Dominic Thiem in straight sets.

It pitted him in a semi-final with his idol, Roger Federer, a player to which he had lost all six FedEx ATP Head2Head clashes. For an opponent Federer admitted “crushed me too many times in practice not to do it also once in a match situation”, Goffin upped his aggression to pull off the improbable upset.

It made him just the sixth man to beat Federer and Nadal in the same event and the first since Djokovic to do so at the 2015 Nitto ATP Finals.

“Both are really special. It was the first time against Rafa. Then the semi-final for the first time for me here, and to beat Roger for the first time here in such a big event, big tournament, it was the perfect moment,” Goffin said. “Yeah, it is the best win of my career, for sure.”

Dimitrov enters Sunday’s title decider unbeaten having narrowly edged Dominic Thiem before thrashing Goffin and Pablo Carreno Busta for the loss of just two games in each match. He rebounded emphatically after dropping the opening set against Jack Sock to drop just three games in the final two sets, but not before a momentary bout of nerves crept in when he attempted to serve it out. He will finish the year, regardless of Sunday’s result as the new World No. 3.

“The goal was to finish the year top 10. Now I finished 3,” Dimitrov said. “It's wonderful, a wonderful reward. This is what I've been working for… I think it's not only good for me, I think for the whole team. I think that gives us a very good platform to start in the off-season, yeah, have a good start of next year.”

Dimitrov leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head series against Goffin 4-1, including the round-robin clash at this year’s season finale. The Bulgarian took the honours in the pair’s Australian Open quarter-final meeting and on home soil in the Sofia final, however Goffin landed revenge in the quarter-finals of the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament indoors in Rotterdam.

“Obviously he's done well this week. I mean, beating Rafa, Roger, those are big wins,” Dimitrov said. “I think his confidence is going to be up there. But I'm not going to focus in on his confidence or his game right now. I'm just focusing on myself, the recovery that I'm going to do today. Of course, it's not going to be the same after I played against him… I think also it is a different stage for both of us.”

Dimitrov said he wished he could “just press replay” after his emphatic triumph over the Belgian in the group stage. Goffin, though, will be sure to press reset. The stage may be the same but on Sunday they play for so much more.

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[Damian]

[DUN I LOVE]

Celujemy w pierwszą trójkę.

Spoiler:

3.Indian Wells 2017 1181
4.WTF Londyn 2011 1151
5.ATP Finals Londyn 2017 1107

[Lleyton]

[DUN I LOVE]

Lorek w swoim żywiole w studio - tenis Goffina wyróżnia to, że jak powiedział "wolę jeździć metrem niż autobusem niskopokładowym, bo jest szybsze".

[Damian]

Three Former World No. 1s Lead 1990s Finals Club Celebrations In London

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The ATP World Tour welcomes back old friends to the English capital
Former players from the 1990s involved in the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals were welcomed to The O2, venue of the season finale in London, this week. Boris Becker, the 1988, 1992 and 1995 champion, 1998 titlist Alex Corretja, and former World No. 1s Stefan Edberg (1989 winner) and Yevgeny Kafelnikov took part in this week’s celebrations, while those working on-site - 1994 doubles titlist Jonas Bjorkman (w/Apell) and Carlos Moya - were also honoured.
More than 30 players, who featured in the year-end singles and doubles championships from the 1990s, travelled to the English capital as part of The Finals Club, an initiative established in 2015 that welcomes some of the game’s former greats from the past 47 years to return to the season-ending tournament, where they will be able to reconnect with the sport, their peers, as well as the world’s best players of today.
Those accepting the ATP World Tour’s invitation this year also included Kelly Jones, Patrick Galbraith, Alex O'Brien, Jacco Eltingh, Paul Haarhuis and Mark Woodforde, who had all been No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings. Jan Apell, Wayne Black, Albert Costa, Olivier Delaitre, Steve DeVries, Wayne Ferreira, Tim Henman, Luke Jensen, Nicolas Kiefer, Karol Kucera, Nicklas Kulti, Nicolas Lapentti, Luis Lobo, Todd Martin, Francisco Montana, Karel Novacek, Jiri Novak, Libor Pimek, David Rikl, Greg Rusedski, Javier Sanchez, Fabrice Santoro, Cyril Suk and Byron Talbot also took part.
“The Finals Club is a fantastic idea and it makes the Nitto ATP Finals a must stop for former players,” said Moya, who now coaches Rafael Nadal, the 2017 year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. “This was a great opportunity to catch up with old rivals and friends.”
Martin, the CEO of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, who competed at the 1999 season finale, said, “The tournament is unique with its round-robin format, the fact you can lose but progress and potentially lift the title. It has grown in prestige and I am extremely happy that both singles and doubles competitors are able to compete together in London, one of the sport’s biggest markets.”
The group took a boat ride from the London Eye to The O2, then enjoyed a Moët & Chandon toast and were welcomed by Chris Kermode, the ATP Executive Chairman and President. Having been presented with personalised Moët & Chandon bottles, the former players enjoyed a sumptuous lunch, prior to taking their seats courtside for the 2017 singles and doubles title matches at the Nitto ATP Finals.
While players from the 2000s will be celebrated next year, The Finals Club this year has been highlighted by the renaming of Groups A and B for both the singles and doubles in honour of players who made an indelible mark on the tournament in the 1990s. In singles, Group A was named after Pete Sampras, the 1991, 1994, 1996-97, 1999 champion, and Group B after Becker. The doubles groups were named Woodbridge/Woodforde and Eltingh-Haarhuis, after Australians Todd Woodbridge and Woodforde - the 1992, 1996 doubles titlists - and Eltingh and Haarhuis, who won the year-end championships in 1993 and 1998.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Jak buki widzą ten finał?

[Jacuszyn]

Jak buki widzą ten finał?

Zdecydowane wskazanie na Dimitrova.

[Emu]

Ale return przy bp.
Musi lepiej serwować Goffin żeby nawiązać walkę.

[DUN I LOVE]

Ale sztywny Grigor.

[Damian]

Aha, 3 gemy i 3 brejki.

[jarosword20]

Co tam się dzieje? Nikt nie chce tego wygrać?

[Damian]

Belg odważnie nie boi się atakować, natomiast Bułgar trochę nerwowy.

[Emu]

Powinien maksymalnie przyciskać Bułgara przy jego gemach serwisowych.

[DUN I LOVE]

Trzeba się modlić, żeby odzyskał luz Bułgar, póki co zlany po maksie.