World Tour Finals – Day 7

Semi-finals

(4)Roger Federer d. (5)David Ferrer                  7-5, 6-3                 [ 1:25 h ]

Federer is the worst match-up for Ferrer. The Spaniard in 12 matches against the Swiss won only 3 sets, but never was close to win a match. It’s tough to say sometimes why some players are totally supreme over the others, and I think it’s one of those H2H’s. Ferrer is good enough to beat Federer two or three times in twelve matches, but he hasn’t done yet. Maybe it’s a matter of psychological advantage, Federer won their first five matches in straight sets, before Ferrer jumped onto the higher level in tennis hierarchy, and that initial difference takes its toll regularly. Today decided the 10th game of the 1st set, Ferrer led 5:4* and was five times two points away from the set, but every time at ‘deuce’ couldn’t play the shots he usually does. Federer took the momentum by winning five consecutive games and never looked back moving to the 100th ATP final! #

(6)Jo-Wilfried Tsonga d. (7)Tomas Berdych     6-3, 7-5              [ 1:34 h ]

I didn’t see this match because I was partying at the time 🙂 Tsonga was broken once in the 2nd set, finished the match with an ace. “Roger is the best player for the moment indoors,” Tsonga said. “It’s going to be really special here, for my first final here. It’s going to be an amazing atmosphere on court, and I like that. … I know it’s the last match (of the year) so I will give it everything.”

Doubles results:
(3)M.Mirnyi/D.Nestor d. (1)B.Bryan/M.Bryan 7-6(6), 6-4
(8)M.Fyrstenberg/M.Matkowski d.  (4)M.Bhupathi/L.Paes 6-4, 4-6, [10-6]

# Players to participate in 100 finals or more:

161 – Jimmy Connors
146 – Ivan Lendl
109 – John McEnroe
104 – Guillermo Vilas
100 – Roger Federer