After over 60 tournaments spanning 31 weeks the ATP season reaches a conclusion on Sunday and what a superb end we are in store for as the two best tennis players of the year go head to head inside the o2 Arena in London to battle it out for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title and the year-end number one spot.
Heading into the week everyone wanted Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic to meet in the final and that is exactly what they will do but before they do there is a thrilling looking doubles final to be played out too on what is all shaped up to be a fantastic finale.
Doubles – Henri Kontinen & John Peers vs Rajeev Ram & Raven Klaasen
If you took a look at the seedings at the beginning of the week you wouldn’t have expected to see either of these two sides in the final but this is the final we have courtesy of a week of shock results in the doubles competition.
Henri Kontinen and John Peers took care of the Bryan Brothers in the semi-final while Rajeev Ram and Raven Klaasen pulled off a major upset in taking out the newly crowned world number one pair of Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.
Let’s cut to the chase here. Kontinen and Peers have been superb this week and if there is a god they will be the champions. They fully deserve to be the champions based on their performances and I think they will be because they are just too dominant on serve and in Kontinen they have the player of the week.
I took the Finn-Aussie pair to win the event before it began and I’m more than happy with the position I’m in with them. Those of a nervous disposition have the chance to back Ram and Klaasen but I’m not doing that. I’m sticking with what I’ve thought all along and that is that my 6/1 pre-event punt pays out here.
Singles – Andy Murray vs Novak Djokovic
There could be no more mouth-watering a final than the one we have on our hands here. We have the two best players in the game going at it. The world number one ranking spot is on the line. They have three of the four Grand Slam titles between them and both are playing tennis that the gods designed it to be played.
We need to get the elephant in the room out of the way first. Andy Murray is going to be a knackered player heading onto this court. His semi-final, an absolute epic in every sense of the word, lasted 3hr38 and now he has to back that up here. It will test him physically and we shouldn’t hide that.
The other problem Murray has is that Novak Djokovic is playing first half of the year tennis after a dodgy first match and that is possibly the biggest issue for the Scot. Murray is playing some of the best tennis he has ever played too but as much as I totally respect Murray as a player if you put Djokovic’s best tennis alongside Murray’s best the Serb wins. That’s how I expect this to play out, even more so when you factor in Murray’s jaded body and heavy legs.
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