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ATP World Tour Finals 2012: Story so far in pictures, quotes and results

Atp world tour finals 2012: our writer at the o2 rounds up the tournament so far in pictures, quotes and results.

It’s the half-way stage at the World Tour Finals, and some things never change.

Novak Djokovic has beaten Andy Murray in yet another classic, race-to-the-wire contest, and has as good as guaranteed a place in the semis.

Roger Federer has reached all sorts of records and is the first to qualify for the semis—nothing new there.

David Ferrer lost to Federer yet again—that’s 14 times—but played a storm against Juan Martin del Potro, as he has done in most of their contests and on most surfaces.

Amid the action came news from the ATP that the season-ending tournament would continue to be played in London until 2015, and little wonder. Every session has been sold out, with attendance expected to top the million mark by the end of this, the fourth, World Tour Finals at the O2.

The players love it too. Uniquely, they arrive at the venue by riverboat. They have their own locker rooms. They even have individually embroidered towels—and most of them make sure they take every one of them home in their bag!

What also never changes is the complexity of the format—or rather the complexity of the qualification for each player from each pool.

The top man from each pool will advance to play the second man from the other pool in the semifinals, and the ranking is affected by the number of match wins, number of sets and games won, head-to-head in the tournament…the permutations are many-headed. So while Federer has qualified already, his last match against del Potro could determine whether he is No1 or No2 in this pool.

As for the Djokovic pool, ahead of their final round-robin matches there were no fewer than 10 scenarios.

Here are a few pointers, along with some photos and quotes from the biggest indoor tennis tournament in the world.

No1 Novak Djokovic

The 2008 champion and end-of-year No1 beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straights and came back from a set down to beat Murray. In only one of the 10 scenarios can he fail to qualify: if Tomas Berdych beats him in two sets and Murray beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in two.

Djokovic on confidence:

“Well, confidence plays a key role for any person on this planet, I think, especially for the athletes at this level. You need to try to rely on your strength in your game and you need to believe in your shots, believe in your instincts. When you have that positive mindset, when you believe in your game, you have better chances of winning those crucial points.

No2 Roger Federer

The six-time and defending champion has already qualified for the semifinals with two straight-sets wins over Janko Tipsarevic and Ferrer. His performance against del Potro may affect whether he qualifies top or second in his pool.

Federer reached a record 40 match-wins in the tournament after Round 1 and crossed the 70 match-win mark for the season with the second round win.

Federer, asked if he is feeling the benefit of missing Paris:

“Well, I don’t know. Never find out because I don’t get a chance to go back to Paris and play. [But] I’m happy that I feel fine just in time…really since yesterday I feel fine. So obviously it was good for me to start Tuesday.”

No3 Andy Murray

After pulling out last year with injury after one match, Murray has made no secret of wanting to end his best ever season on home soil with a good run here. He beat Berdych in three but lost to Djokovic, also in three. He needs to beat Tsonga to keep his qualification to the semis alive, and a straight-sets win would see him through.

Murray on his relationship with Djokovic:

“I think both of us probably see each other’s games pretty well. Especially this year, because we’ve played so much. You kind of know a little bit what to expect…The intensity of my matches with him have been extremely high this year. But the one thing I would say is, this year I think both of us probably have seen things in each other’s games probably improve, and that’s why there’s a lot of long rallies, and the matches are incredibly tight.”

No4 David Ferrer

The Spaniard beat del Potro in three sets but lost to Federer in two. His progress to the semifinals, which he reached last year, will almost certainly depend on the scores he and del Potro achieve in their closing round-robin matches: If they are in a two-way tie, Ferrer will edge it on the basis of their head-to-head.

Ferrer leads the 2012 tour with 73 match wins, though Djokovic could draw level with a final round-robin win.

Ferrer on Federer, to whom he lost for the 14th time:

“I think he has a very good slice and very good serve. It’s very difficult for me to serve to Roger, no? Maybe with the other players I can receive better. And Roger I can’t do…He’s very good, so maybe the difference with him is because he’s better than me, no?”

And Federer’s view of the only other man aged 30 or more in the tournament:

“Again today, I think Ferrer showed why he’s so tough to beat. He makes you hit the extra shot, he makes it physical. You know that mentally he’s not going to go anywhere. That’s why he has so much respect from his fellow competitors…I think this is really the time for him right now where all his hard work is starting to pay off for him…I think now in particular he can shine and prove to not only you guys, but also I think the other players, how tough he really is.”

No5 Tomas Berdych

The big Czech may have lost in three to Murray, but he looked very strong in beating Tsonga, also in three. He has to put in a top-notch performance against Djokovic to stand a chance of beating Murray to qualification for the semis, but he came close last year, losing in a third-set tie-breaker.

Berdych, on emulating his female compatriots, who won the Fed Cup, in the upcoming Davis Cup final.

“I think the girls are quite used to that, to win. They did it already twice in the two years. They just give the turn to us. It should be our team who is going to…make the Czech tennis really the best possible year ever to happen. So, you know, we will try to definitely do that, try to fight for us, for the country, try to bring the trophy after 32 years back home.”

No6 Juan Martin Del Potro

Possibly the dark horse of the tournament, he won two indoor titles ahead of London, including his first win in seven attempts this year over Federer. He beat an ailing Tipsarevic with ease, but was beaten by Ferrer in three. His concluding match against Federer could be very influential: earn him qualification for the semis and determine whether Federer finishes top of the pool or second.

Del Potro and on facing Federer for the eighth time in 2012:

“I need to beat Roger once again, it’s going to be a different match like 2009 here, but also is going to be a special match for me. Could be my last match in this season, so I will try to play similar to the finals in Basel, trying to be more aggressive than him all the time and see if I have little chance to beat him.”

No7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

The Frenchman who reached the finals last year, looks in danger of failing to qualify this year. He lost to Djokovic in two sets and Berdych in three. How he performs against Murray may have a greater impact on the Briton’s fortunes than on his own. Only one of the 10 possible scenarios sees him qualify: Djokovic has to beat Berdych in straight sets, and he has to do the same against Murray—and the Frenchman has beaten Murray only once, back in 2008.

No 8 Janko Tipsarevic

The Serb came to London as alternate last year, and took Murray’s place for two matches—beating Djokovic for the first time in his career and losing to Berdych in a final-set tie-break. Playing right up to Paris to qualify, he has been coping with the after-effects of a virus, losing quickly to both Federer and del Potro. His rackets came out in sympathy in the latter match: Despite its shortness, he had strings go in four rackets.

Tipsarevic, asked about his performance so far:

“Great [laughter]. Well, I just answered. If you ask me if I’m happy with my performance, I’m not. I’m playing horrible. I’m playing worse than horrible. I’m playing the worst tennis that I played in a long time. But I’m on the court, behaving good, not throwing my racket, giving my best.

“I would like to thank the fans who are supporting me despite my tennis…But, it’s sad to say, but this is the best I can do right now.”

…And added, when asked about wearing glasses:

“Even though you can really not see it in the last two matches, [my glasses are] really helpful.”

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The Toss: Best matches of 2012

• Author: C.W. Sesno

Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in a near six-hour Australian Open final, but some say it was an overrated match. (Getty Images)

With the ATP World Tour Finals in the books, we can finally close down the 2012 season. Looking back, it was certainly a year of memorable matches, from the near six-hour epic between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final, to Victoria Azarenka's near-upset of Serena Williams at the U.S. Open , to Andy Murray's breakthrough at the U.S. Open. In between the drama on the biggest stages, we had some wild matches week in and week out that produced some quality tennis, even if the sport's biggest titles weren't on the line.

This week's Toss features a panel of tennis writers who spent the last 10½ months watching every kind of match -- good, bad and ugly -- to try to answer a seemingly simple question.

Today's Toss: Which matches stood out as the best of the year?

Courtney Nguyen: Thanks for joining this week's discussion, everyone. As the ATP and WTA seasons have officially wrapped up -- yes, there's the Davis Cup final this weekend, but seriously, at some point we must draw a line -- the offseason has  finally arrived and with it an ever-so-brief respite for those of us who have spent virtually every day of the last 11 months watching tennis. So we should obviously use this break to keep talking about tennis, right?  Right.

This week I wanted to get your wise input on some of the best matches of the year. I'm not sure there's a match that stands out as being the obvious or unanimous choice this year. We've had long matches, we've had historic matches and we've had memorable matches. But what exactly do we mean when we say one single match was  great or even the best ?

Ben Rothenberg, New York Times tennis blogger: As you say, Courtney, we've all watched a dizzying amount of tennis this year, so I think we should probably do this in somewhat of a pyramid format so as not to drown immediately.

Let's start from the top with the Slam finals. For me, the best of them was the men's Wimbledon final, where Roger Federer beat Murray. I know, I know, the Australian Open final between Djokovic and Nadal was incredibly long and intense. But when I think back to which one I'd rather watch again, it's Wimbledon. The momentum swings were meaningful, the occasion was massively important to both and the tennis was consistently strong. The Aussie final was more of a Sisyphean stalemate that lasted nearly six hours, and I'm not sure I want to put myself through that again.

High marks also go to the U.S. Open women's final, but I think Serena's walkabout in the middle of the match takes some shine off of what was ultimately the most dramatic finish to a women's Slam final in years.

And the worst, by far, was the women's Australian Open final. After Maria Sharapova got off to that 2-0 lead it was complete one-way traffic the rest of the way, and it was perhaps the least entertaining Slam final I can remember. Azarenka deserves massive props for bringing the best tennis of her career to the biggest match of her career.

Amy Fetherolf, Founder, Drop Shot Dispatch , The Changeover :  To me, calling a match  good or  the best is fairly subjective. Many fans have conflicting opinions on what makes a match great.

For some, a great match needs only to present drama. For example, the U.S. Open final between Murray and Djokovic was an unpredictable, lengthy affair that had some large implications for the ATP landscape, allowing Murray to rightfully enter the Big Four once and for all. But in reality, that match was a bit of an error-fest. Both players were nervy. Sure, there was some excellent shotmaking at times, but I wouldn't call it a great match, quality-wise.

One match that stands out to me was that second-round match at Wimbledon between Lukas Rosol and Nadal. Aside from Rosol's scoring arguably one of the biggest upsets in recent history, both players were playing outstanding tennis at the same time. Winners-to-unforced differential doesn't always tell the full story, but Rosol hit 22 aces, 65 winners and 29 unforced errors. Nadal hit 19 aces, 41 winners and just 16 errors. It was one of the best (and most dramatic) matches I saw this year because it was won on the merits of great tennis, and not because one player was making more errors than the other.

ROTHENBERG: I agree. Rosol's toppling Nadal will go down as the most memorable match of the year. Results on the ATP Tour have become wildly predictable (injuriously so, I would say), and that match stands as the biggest shock of the last 10 or so years. So many better players have fallen short of what Rosol did that day, losing to the Big Four in a way that seems to be almost deferential. But Rosol wanted no part of deference.

I saw him nearly get triple-bageled in Melbourne by non-legend Philipp Petzschner. But that day at the All England Club, Rosol played fearless, out-of-his-mind tennis, and was nearly unbeatable in the fifth set, either hitting outright aces or first-ball winners on nearly every service point. It was really something to behold.

That performance was massive not only because of Rosol's refreshing display of cojones but also because of what it did to Nadal's year. It was Nadal's final match of 2012 and it completely changed the landscape of the men's game. It arguably helped Murray reach the heights he did, and it shrunk the Big 4 to a Big 4(-1).

Erik Gudris, tennis writer and blogger : For me, there wasn't one truly great match this year, but a few very good ones with some low points thrown in. I agree with Ben that that while many will pick the Aussie final as the best men's match of the year, the fact that it took FOREVER to finish turned it into one of those rare Slam finals that you almost didn't care who wins, as long as someone did.

Step back a round and you get my pick for the best men's match: The Aussie semi between Murray and Djokovic was packed with dramatic ebbs and flows and it was the first time we had really seen Murray fight like that with his back against the wall.

For the women, I again agree with Ben that the U.S. Open final between Williams and Azarenka was the best. Serena's drop in level in the second set aside, that dramatic third set left everyone guessing who'd prevail.

By far the worst match of the year on either side of the aisle also involved Serena. Her first-round loss to Virginie Razzano at Roland Garros was a slow-motion train wreck of nerves from the first point. Not to negate Razzano's fighting against cramps and the umpire in the last set, but that was a match Williams should have won.

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NGUYEN: Interesting call on Rosol-Nadal. Once Amy noted stats from that match, it all started coming back to me. My memories from that match mainly revolve around laughter. Lots of laughter. "LULZ," as the kids call them these days. ROTFLMAO in response to Rosol's audacious shotmaking and his ability to somehow make Rafa look ... mortal. But whether that match changed the course of the 2012 season, I'm not so sure. I don't know if I buy into the idea that Rosol took Nadal's knees out from under him. The fact remains that was the last match Rafa played, but it's hard to really get a handle on the "what if" Rafa had been around the second half of the season.

Going back to the broader question of what makes a match "great," I think it's a combination of the match's importance, the quality and the sheer entertainment value, with the percentages shifting according to your own subjectivity. I mean, I was thoroughly entertained by Kaia Kanepi's three-set win over Caroline Wozniacki in the third round of the French Open, but that match was horrible. I enjoyed it for the human drama and some of the ridiculous (in a bad way) shotmaking.

I agree with all of you on the Australian Open men's final, which was high stakes and at times high quality. But in the end I did not find a six-hour match like that entertaining in the least. Kind of hard to call something the best match of the year when you find yourself praying for it to just ... end.

So for me: The best men's Slam final was definitely Federer's win over Murray at Wimbledon, and the best women's final was Serena's narrow win over Azarenka at the U.S. Open. That said, I'm not sure either was the match of the year.

What about some of the year's unsung matches? Sharapova's three-set win over Sam Stosur in the Stuttgart quarters was a flat-out awesome match. As was Serena's straight-set win over Petra Kvitova at Wimbledon, which was pure offensive tennis at it's finest. And how about Azarenka's grinding win over Angelique Kerber at the WTA Championships a few weeks ago? Or perhaps the biggest upset in the women's game this year: Laura Robson sent Kim Clijsters into retirement with a remarkable display of lefty hitting. Each one of these matches was high quality from beginning to end and, honestly, I'm not sure  that many people even watched them.

GUDRIS: I totally forgot about Kanepi vs. Wozniacki in Paris until Courtney just reminded me. Thanks a lot. That one might just outrank Williams-Razzano as the worst match of the year.

What makes a match  great ? A lot depends on who is playing, the stakes and, yes, the quality of play, to a certain extent. But a great match could also be a singular performance. Serena's complete dismissal of Sharapova in the gold-medal round of the Olympics wasn't a match, yet it was "great" simply because we were able to sit back and marvel at Williams' level of play.

Another quality match that I think deserves a mention is the U.S. Open quarterfinal between David Ferrer and Janko Tipsarevic that slowly built into a dramatic and satisfying final-set tiebreak. It's a shame in some ways that it got scheduled during the middle of an afternoon session. I hope those who didn't see it then will carve out some time in the offseason to watch and appreciate it . (SI.com's Richard Deitsch had it as the best match of the tournament up to that point.)

ROTHENBERG: If we're talking about memorably comprehensive performances, how about the absolute shellacking that Kerber laid on Clijsters at Wimbledon? Nobody really talked about that match at the time because A) it was on Court 3 on the second Monday, meaning it was largely overshadowed, and B) the lopsided beatdown of a beloved mother made people a little uncomfortable.

Kerber also played a starring role in one of the great melodramas of the year later that week in an all-German quarterfinal against Sabine Lisicki, a match that I will remember forever for its incredible momentum swings and suffocating sarcasm. The match was so ridiculous that it's currently being developed into a German musical called "Zwei verärgerte blonde Frauen in Großbritannien." Well, no, not really. But it should be .

FETHEROLF: Speaking of Kerber, my vote for the best women's match of the year goes to the round-robin match at the WTA Championships between Kerber and Azarenka that Courtney mentioned earlier.

In a tournament that usually suffers from the effects of a long season with fatigued players, Kerber and Azarenka played one of the most dramatic and hard-fought matches of the year. Even though the physical toll of the match ended up perhaps costing Azarenka the chance to reach the final of the Championships, it was an appropriate bookend to her incredible season. In fending off two match points and winning an intensely competitive match that lasted more than three hours, she proved that her newfound mental strength is very real.

I think when Azarenka won the Australian Open in January, many were skeptical that she could sustain her positive attitude, since it seemed like such a sudden change. Of course, she backed up her excellent results and earned the year-end No. 1 ranking, but her mental strength was especially impressive in that match against Kerber.

ROTHENBERG: Azarenka's consistency is what was most impressive. Her ability to tough out tight match after tight match (e.g. vs. Mona Barthel in Indian Wells, vs. Stosur in New York) is what kept her at No. 1 for so long. Even if you think Williams has had the better year, it's tough to say that Azarenka hasn't done the ranking proud.

But one of the matches that most pops out to me is one that broke from a consistent, established pattern. Andy Roddick went into Miami with a 2-21 record against Federer, his inability to break through against the Swiss champion largely defining how his career was seen by many. But in what he knew would be his final year on tour, Roddick saved his best for last.

Roddick still finished his career 3-21 against Federer (more of a lopsided football game than a normal head-to-head for two former No. 1s), but the top match on their ledger will stand as a "Roddick W" for the rest of time.

GUDRIS : Ben, I'm glad you mentioned Roddick's win in Miami. I remember before that match he had said he felt like something good was coming. And, of course, I thought, "Yeah, Roger Federer." But that match felt almost like it was scripted by Hollywood. Roddick goes in as a massive underdog but wins the first set, then has a depressing second set that makes everyone think it's a foregone conclusion. Instead, Roddick rallies with some of his best tennis to win the match and then closes with a final acknowledgement to the heavens honoring his late friend and agent Ken Meyerson. Classic three-act structure with a feel-good cathartic ending. See you at awards season, Andy.

NGUYEN: All right, so real quick before we wrap this up: Most overrated match of 2012? Ready, set, go.

ROTHENBERG: That interminable Jo-Wilfried Tsonga-Milos Raonic match at the Olympics that went 25-23 in the third set. On the one hand, I liked it because it showed that best-of-three is plenty. On the other, it was treated like some sort of all-time classic when it was little more than a serve-fest.

FETHEROLF: I'm going with that U.S. Open final between Murray and Djokovic. I don't question its significance, and I'm truly glad it settled the endless "When is Andy Murray going to win a Slam?" questions. But I couldn't help but feel underwhelmed by the match itself. I heard commentators call it a "classic" match, and started to wonder whether we were watching the same thing. To me, quality-wise, it was the fourth-best Grand Slam final of the year. (Behind, in order: Wimbledon, Australian Open and Roland Garros.)

At the risk of sounding anti-U.S. Open, an honorable mention goes to the women's final in New York. Azarenka played really well to force a third set, but had Williams not suddenly started playing shockingly poorly, it wouldn't have even gotten to that point.

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The ATP World Tour Finals is the season-ending competition in men's professional tennis, featuring the top-eight singles players (and doubles teams) in the world rankings. Participants are split into two groups of four for round-robin play before traditional semifinal and final rounds determine a champion. Evolved from the year-end tournament known as the Masters Grand Prix that began in 1970, the ATP World Tour Finals has been held at the O2 Arena in London since 2009, when Barclays became the event sponsor. Roger Federer won a record-breaking sixth season-ending title in 2011.

The origin of the ATP World Tour Finals dates back to 1970, when the International Tennis Federation set up a grand prix structure of year-long events to culminate with a Masters event in Tokyo in December that featured the top-ranking men's players for that season. (The ITF rival tour, the World Championship Tennis Tour, also featured a season-ending event at the time, the WCT Finals.)

Ilie Nastase won four Masters titles in five appearances between 1971 and 1975, as the ITF became linked with the Association of Tennis Professionals, which would eventually run the men's tour. The year-end Masters moved to other major cities around the world in its first decade, including Paris, Barcelona, Boston, Melbourne, Stockholm, and Houston, before establishing a home at Madison Square Garden in New York from 1977 to 1989.

Bjorn Borg of Sweden won back-to-back events in 1979 and 1980, while American John McEnroe won three titles in his hometown. Ivan Lendl reached nine consecutive finals from 1980 to 1988, winning the championship in five of those years.

The event's name was changed to the ATP Tour World Championships in 1990, and it was held in Frankfurt and Hanover in Germany from 1990 to 1999. Those championships were dominated by Pete Sampras of the U.S., who won five titles during that period to tie Lendl's record mark.

The ITF and ATP made additional changes after the 1999 competition, when the ATP Tour World Championship and the men's Grand Slam Cup (a tourney held between 1990 and 1999) were discontinued and replaced by a new jointly owned, year-end men's event called the Tennis Masters Cup. Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten made history in the inaugural Tennis Masters Cup (played in Lisbon, Portugal) by becoming the first South American to finish the year with ATP's No. 1 ranking by defeating Sampras and Andre Agassi in the semifinals and final, respectively.

Australian Lleyton Hewitt won on home soil when the Tennis Masters Cup moved to Sydney in 2001, and he repeated as champion the following year in Shanghai. After two years in Houston -- with Roger Federer of Switzerland the victor both times -- the tournament returned to Shanghai for a four-year run from 2005 to 2008. Federer won successive titles in 2006 and 2007 before Novak Djokovic captured his first Tennis Masters Cup in 2008.

The event was renamed in 2009 as the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, with the O2 Arena in London named as host for the 2009 through 2012 tournaments. After Nikolay Davydenko won the 2009 edition, Federer claimed the trophy for a fifth time in 2010, equaling the mark of most individual titles set by Lendl and Sampras. He followed that up with another win in 2011, setting the event record with his sixth championship.

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Qualification of entrants for the ATP World Tour Finals is based on ATP Tour rankings for that calendar year:

1. A selection list for the event includes: a) The top seven players in the ATP rankings as of the Monday after the final ATP World Tour tournament of the calendar year; b) Up to two Grand Slam winners from that year, in order of their positions, ranked between 8 and 20 in the ATP rankings as of that qualification date; and c) Players positioned eight and below in the ATP rankings as of that qualification date.

2. Direct Acceptances: The top-eight players in the selection list qualify for the event as direct acceptances. All direct acceptances must be available for play through the completion of the round-robin competition and the knockout competition, if eligible. Any withdrawal is replaced by the next highest positioned player on the selection list.

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With an overall diameter of 365 meters and a volume equal to two of London's old Wembley Stadiums, the O2 Arena is the second largest arena in the United Kingdom. Various seating arrangements can be set up for events at the arena, which can hold a maximum capacity of 20,000.

The O2 Arena has played host to NHL regular-season games, NBA exhibition games, a number of UFC mixed martial arts events and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2009. The facility was selected to serve as the home for tennis' ATP World Tour Finals from 2009 to 2012 and will become a venue for gymnastics and basketball events at the 2012 Olympic Games.

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