Back on English. Roger Federer won today his 4th title of the season and his 6th ATP World Tour Finals, once called as "Masters", by beating the frenchman and 6th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga by 6-3 6-7 6-3. With this title, the 30-year-old has become the oldest player ever winning the last tour of the year and also the one with more Masters' titles, with half a dozen.
Such a great end of season by the best player ever, at least in my opinion. In the last months, Federer reached his 800th win in his career (pro since 1998), and also his 100th final - with 70% of titles; in other words, Federer wins in each 7 of 10 finals! These are amazing stats, worthy of such a great player and, first of all, man.
Federer will finish 2011 season with 17 matches won in a row (he doesn't lose a match since that painful defeat against Novak Djokovic in US Open semi-final) and 4 titles, three of it won in the last 3 weeks (Basel, Paris and now London) and the other one was the first tour of the season, in Doha. Obviously, the Swiss will get back the 3rd place in ATP ranking. In fact, since Andy Murray reached the #3, Federer didn't lose a single match and Murray didn't win a title (he won three in Asia mini-season, which made him move to top3).
On the other hand, I nearly feel sorry for Tsonga. This was the third Sunday he played against Roger Federer (after Paris final and WTF open-match) and he lost all. Of course he must be proud of his end of season, but losing 3 times in a row, two of it in finals, is always hard. Still, he has that win in Wimbledon quarter-finals after being 2 sets down to celebrate in Federer's face.
In my opinion, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is the 5th player of the year; Ferrer had also a great season, but Tsonga was the one non top-4 with better results in the biggest tournaments this season. If he continues his shape, the Australian Open 2008 runner-up may have an even greater 2012 season.
It was a great tournament, no doubt. However, I became disappointed with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. They all have great seasons (Nadal maybe not, but also a very tiring year) and have the right of being tired, injured and tired & injured... Still, semi-finals without them is not the same.
About Nole's performance, was quite awful but this can't overshadow his great season (70-6 in wins/losses). With 10 titles (3 Majors and 5 Masters 1000), the serb did the 5th best season ever! Hope he can defend successfully his more than 10 000 points next season and keep the No1vak status. He now must be happy, since he got a specially-customized Benfica's jersey yesterday; a great player roots for a great team.
Cheers,
Pedro Mendes
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