World Tour Finals: Day 7 - Semifinals - Saturday Nov. 15, Order of Play

[tented]

All slots have been filled.

Afternoon Session:

Doubles — 12:00 P.M.
Kubot/Lindstedt vs Dodig/Melo

Singles — 2:00 P.M.
Djokovic vs Nishikori

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Evening Session:

Doubles — 6:00 P.M.
Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin vs Bryan/Bryan

Singles — 8:00 P.M.
Federer vs Wawrinka

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Head to Head:

1. Fed vs. Wawrinka 14-2.

Both of Wawrinka's wins were on outdoor clay courts and actually both were in Monte Carlo.

2. Novak vs. Kei 2-2.

Two of these four matches were played this year, actually after July; They are tied in that too.

This makes it the second successive year when two Swiss Blokes are in SF. Last year, they
were in same group and so played in different semifinals.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Current odds for winning WTF as of 5 p.m. EST on Friday (after all RR matches are over)

Novak Djokovic 4/9
Roger Federer 5/2
Kei Nishikori 17
Stan Wawrinka 22

Works out to about 70% for Novak, 29% to Fed and about 1% for the rest of the field.

 

[masterclass]

Top 4 (bar absent Nadal) in the world in the semis - so no real surprise.

A bit of an uncomfortable situation for the Swiss to play each other, seeing as they are friends and will play together in DC next week. But I imagine they will keep things cool, entertaining and respectful.

Hopefully Nishikori is relatively healthy and we see a better match than in Paris, but No1e has been so good this week, it's difficult to see Kei beating him.

Respectfully,
masterclass

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I am smelling a huge stink of an upset!

Who will it be?

Nah... It'll be Rog vs. Nole, like the whole year has been.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Novak and Roger have been the only two players,who had played good consistent tennis at the Yec,both will make the final.

 

[isabelle]

Good luck to Julien B / ERV, to Stan and to both Kei and Nole (I love the both of ) them...I guess Nole 'll win nevertheless not only today but tomorrow too

 

[kskate2]

So much fun watching these 2 play

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Well constructed point by Kei but he misses the volley and Nole gets his first break.

 

[herios]

Papa Nole well dialed in.

 

[Ilovetennis2]

And the destruction continues.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Novak in total control of the 1st set winning 61 in just 23 mins

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Poor Kei is finding out that he needs to hit maybe 5-6 winner quality shots to win a single point the way Nole is defending. Let's see if he can make use of this BP...he does not need to. Nole Dfs.

 

[Kieran]

Novak blaming another fan for his own getting tight on a second serve. Could get interesting here, this set...

 

[DarthFed]

Nole is too strong on this stuff. I think he will right the ship and win this set 6-4 or easier.

 

[Denis]

Nole really needs to get this crowd thing under control. It unneccesarily affects him, and he needs to accept the people want to see a match and ignore the idiots. Cost him the 2011 SF against Federer too.

 

[kskate2]

Nole really needs to get this crowd thing under control. It unneccesarily affects him, and he needs to accept the people want to see a match and ignore the idiots. Cost him the 2011 SF against Federer too.

Didnt he win that match

 

[Denis]

Nole really needs to get this crowd thing under control. It unneccesarily affects him, and he needs to accept the people want to see a match and ignore the idiots. Cost him the 2011 SF against Federer too.

Didnt he win that match

It's the match that ended The Streak and caused Federer to waggle his annoying little finger going to the net.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Nole coasting a bit...a dangerous thing to do against a guy like Kei.

 

[kskate2]

You're talking about RG11. I thought you were referring to USO