The ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played between November 20th and November 27th 2011, involving the top eight players in the men’s tennis world rankings and the top eight doubles teams in the world rankings. The year-end tournament featuring the best players in the game, it’s going to be an exciting and dynamic situation that all us bettors can take advantage of, if we play the game right.
ATP World Tour Finals
The 2011 ATP World Tour Finals are being held in London from the 20th November until the 27th November. With big names Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Britain’s Andy Murray and Roger Federer already qualified for the men’s final, this is one major not to miss. The rewards are high: $5 million in total prize money, the chance to win one of the most prestigious titles in tennis and to finish as the season’s No. 1 player.
Unlike most of the other events on the men’s tour, the ATP World Tour Finals is not a straightforward knock-out tournament. Eight players are divided into two groups of four, and play three round-robin matches each against the other three players in their group. From there, the two players with the best records in each group progress to the semifinals, with the winners meeting in the final to determine the champion.
ATP World Tour Finals: History
Ilie Nastase won four titles from five consecutive finals appearances between 1971-75. John McEnroe won the first of his three titles in 1978 in his hometown of New York. Bjorn Borg won back-to-back titles in 1979-80 and Ivan Lendl reached nine consecutive finals from 1980-88 and shares the record for most circuit finale titles with Pete Sampras.
ATP World Tour Final London
From 1990-99 the tournament was known as the ATP Tour World Championships and was held in the German cities of Frankfurt and Hannover. Sampras’ five titles during this period included an epic win in the 1996 final against home favourite Boris Becker. The Tennis Masters Cup was created on December 9, 1999. On that day, the Grand Slam Committee, the ITF and the ATP Tour announced that the ATP Tour World Championship and the men’s Grand Slam Cup would be discontinued and a new jointly-owned, year-end men’s tournament to be known as the Tennis Masters Cup was created.
In a dramatic beginning to the Tennis Masters Cup in 2000 in Lisbon, Gustavo Kuerten became the first South American to rank year-end No. 1 after stunning Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi in the semi-finals and final. Lleyton Hewitt won on home soil in Sydney in 2001 and in Shanghai the following year. Roger Federer then clinched back-to-back titles in Houston (2003-04) before the finale returned to Shanghai for a four-year period.
David Nalbandian upset Federer 7-6 in the fifth set to take the 2005 title before Federer again won consecutive crowns in 2006-07. Shanghai hosted its fourth consecutive and final Tennis Masters Cup in 2008 with Novak Djokovic lifting the trophy, before the event was reborn in 2009 as the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals to be held in the heart of London at the O2 arena from 2009 to 2012. Nikolay Davydenko won the 2009 edition, while Federer lifted his fifth title in 2010.
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