World Tour Finals: How Important Is It and Is Rafael Nadal Missing Out?

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Published: December 17, 2010

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Mention of the WTF to all but the most ardent tennis followers will likely produce blank stares. This indoor event comes at the end of a long, gruelling season and is seen by many tennis fans almost as an imposition. How can yet another tournament be added after the four Grand Slams, and the important events that lead up to them?

The casual follower simply doesn't know of its existence.

Roger Federer, the winner of this event last month, will likely take a lot from this victory as he prepares to defend his Australian Open crown in January. But have his vanquished opponents really been affected by their exits?

Novak Djokovic, who already has one of these titles under his belt, went on to win the Davis Cup two weeks later with his fellow teammates, the first in his nation's history. He rated it as the most significant victory of his career, placing it higher than his Australian Open title of 2008. I predict big things for Djokovic in 2011.

Andy Murray is mainly focused on winning that elusive first Grand Slam and will have much bigger fish to fry as the new season looms. I feel the time for this hardworking, multi-talented young man is near.

He has two successive wins over Federer this season at the Masters level, producing some of the best tennis of his career at both events. This is what Murray will take with him into 2011, and not that dismal showing against the Swiss in London.

And Rafael Nadal? Well, he is on the verge of making history at the Australian Open, as he seeks to become the first title holder of all four Grand Slams since the great Rod Laver.

After such a stellar season, winning the last three Slams of the year on three different surfaces and becoming the first ever to win six times in a row at the same event (at the prestigious Monte-Carlo Masters), Nadal must have turned his focus to Melbourne after winning the U.S. Open.<...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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