Federer, Djokovic Prevail at World Tour Tennis Finals

“But for sure I would love to win here at the World Tour Finals”.

The first set tie-break was important, but there are lots of points that go into the outcome.

Nadal would break again to serve for the match at 6-5, but again Ferrer responded superbly, succeeding on his fifth break point opportunity of the game to get it back to 6-6.

Murray was defeated by Nadal earlier this week having opened up with a win against Ferrer, giving him an identical 1-1 record to Wawrinka making Friday evening’s match a must-watch. “It’s tough to play indoor, especially World Tour Final, he is always fit, always ready”.

“I played a insane match against Roger in the semi-finals a year ago”.

Wawrinka also admitted the dynamic between himself and Federer has altered since he became a grand slam champion at the 2014 Australian Open.

Nadal’s improved serving started to make the difference, however.

“Novak is playing nearly better than impossible. But in the tiebreak, I made bad mistakes at the wrong time”. “I started to be really confident against them, that I have the game to beat them”.

“With my team sitting behind, I just felt like sometimes when the box is extremely close to the court, I sometimes can find that a distraction”, Murray explained.

Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka secured the last remaining semifinal spot at the ATP World Tour Finals with his 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 victory here Friday night over Scottish world No. 2 Andy Murray.

Next comes chapter 46 of their intense rivalry, with Nadal a whisker in front at 23-22.

“He obviously played better than he did when I played him earlier in the year”, said Murray, who produced one of the most eye-catching results of his career by beating Nadal on clay in the final of the Madrid Masters.

“Already in China, playing finals in Beijing, semifinals in Shanghai, you can feel that he’s starting to get comfortable on the court, start to play better”.

“We’ll see. Maybe he’s going to feel more relaxed, no pressure, go for it more, or maybe he’s not going to be completely here”. But the right work is done.

Their last match at this very venue too wasn’t a savoury affair for Ferrer as he lost 3-6, 2-6 to Nadal.

Nadal’s response to dropping a set for the first time in this year’s tournament was to breeze through the second to level the match.

But he is finishing it by suggesting he is returning to top form.

It was Nadal’s third straight win in London but that kind of grueling encounter probably wasn’t the best preparation for a match against Djokovic – especially as the Serb No. 1 had the day off. But Nadal is more concerned with maintaining his late-season resurgence after struggling for most of the year.

“I made too many errors”, the Scotsman said.

The Scot added: “The only positive for me this week is I’ve come away from it injury-free”.

“I know that, I’ve been watching”.

“Against Novak, I know what I have to do, but it will be very hard to do it – it’s a big challenge”.

“Then the next week I’m going to practise a little bit of tennis and more physical performance”.