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10 Things to Watch in London Nitto Atp Finals Storylines NITTO ATP FINALS STORYLINES The O2 | London, England | 11-18 November 2018 Draw: S-8, D-8 | Prize Money: $8,500,000 | Surface: Indoor Hard ATP World Tour Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com NittoATPFinals.com Fabienne Benoit: [email protected] Twitter: @ATPWorldTour #NittoATPFinals Press Officer: [email protected] Facebook: @ATPWorldTour #NittoATPFinals TV & Radio: TennisTV.com 10 THINGS TO WATCH IN LONDON 1) Season Finale: The 2018 Nitto ATP Finals marks the 49th edition of the year-end championships and 10th at The O2 in London. New World No. 1 Novak Djokovic heads Group Guga Kuerten and Roger Federer leads Group Lleyton Hewitt. Since Kuerten captured the 2000 title and Hewitt swept the next two, Djokovic and Federer have combined to win 11 of the 15 year-end championships. 2) Dream Finish: Djokovic hopes to tie Federer’s Nitto ATP Finals record by winning his sixth title. The year-end No. 1 and Comeback Player of the Year entered Wimbledon in July with a ranking of No. 21 and no titles in 52 weeks. Djokovic returns to London four months later as the first player in ATP Rankings history to rise from outside of the Top 20 to year-end No. 1 in the same season. 3) Eye on 100: While Djokovic seeks a storybook end to his season, Federer hopes to finish 2018 with the 100th title of his career. Federer has won more titles in London than any other city with a record eight Wimbledon championships and triumphs at The O2 in 2010 and 2011. The 37-year-old Swiss also won year-end championships at Houston in 2003 and 2004 and at Shanghai in 2006 and 2007. 4) Next is Now: For the second straight year, Alexander Zverev qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals and Next Gen ATP Finals. The 21-year-old German leads all players with 54 victories in 2018, including title wins at all three levels of the tour. Zverev won his third career ATP Masters 1000 title at Madrid and defended titles at both Washington (ATP World Tour 500) and Munich (ATP World Tour 250). 5) First-Timers Club: Six-foot-10 John Isner, 33, and 6-foot-8 Kevin Anderson, 32, are the tallest players ever to compete at the Nitto ATP Finals and the oldest first-time qualifiers since 1972. The former college rivals each reached career-high rankings on 16 July following Anderson’s six-hour, 36-minute semi-final win over Isner at Wimbledon. Anderson rose to No. 5 and Isner reached No. 8. 6) Cilic’s Challenge: World No. 7 Marin Cilic has won 223 matches since 2014, qualifying four times in five years for the Nitto ATP Finals. But only one of the Croat’s victories has come at The O2. Already eliminated from semi-final contention, Cilic beat Kei Nishikori in a 2016 round-robin match. 7) Special Kei: Like Cilic, Nishikori will be competing at the Nitto ATP Finals for the fourth time in five years. The two-time semi-finalist started this season on the ATP Challenger Tour and is finishing it in style. Nishikori is 19-6 since the US Open with two finals, two semi-finals and two quarter-finals. 8) Mr. Consistency: Dominic Thiem leads all players by reaching the quarter-finals or better at 14 tournaments in 2018. The three-time Nitto ATP Finals qualifier won three titles, advanced to his first Grand Slam final at Roland Garros and appeared in his second ATP Masters 1000 final at Madrid. 9) No. 1 Doubles Player: The winners of all four Grand Slam doubles titles this season are in Group Knowles/Nestor, including Wimbledon and US Open champions Mike Bryan and Jack Sock. Bryan, 40, is the oldest World No. 1 doubles player in history and has clinched year-end No. 1. 10) No. 1 Doubles Team: Oliver Marach, 38, is the oldest member of a year-end No. 1 doubles team since 1984. Mate Pavic, 25, is the youngest since 1995. Marach is the first Austrian and Pavic is the first Croatian to finish No. 1 in any of the ATP Rankings (singles, doubles player, doubles team). Information accurate as of Friday, 9 November 2018 at 11 am ET. For the latest stats, facts and figures about the ATP World Tour, follow @ATPMediaInfo on Twitter. .
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