Tennis world en n 49 Tennis World issue 49 | Page 12

A New Look For London
Marco Di Nardo
With the ATP World Tour of Novak Djokovic and Andy Shanghai is finished, and
Finals just around the Murray, both of whom with Paris-Bercy the only big
corner, it’s pretty obvious essentially fell off a cliff this tournament left to play, it is
that the 2017 season has year. time to look at the general
turned out very differently
situation, and see who is
than expected. Rafael Nadal For these and other likely to be heading to
and Roger Federer, who reasons, the Race To London in a few weeks’
returned to the top two spots London rankings, which time.
in the world rankings for this track the points players have first time in many years, accumulated this season Let's start with those players
have already been (and ignores 2016’s points, who will definitely not
discussed in this magazine unlike the normal rankings), participate in the ATP World
several times. We have also are very different indeed Tour Finals. Novak Djokovic
talked about the many crises from a year ago. Now that and Stan Wawrinka have