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ATP World Tour Finals 2017:As it happened

The most dramatic tournament of the year ended up with debutant Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria winning this tournament for the very first time.This blog is the analysis of this tournament.



Nobody in this world would have predicted Dimitrov to win the ATP World tour finals this year.But he suprised everyone by defeating David Goffin of Belgium to clinch this title at his very first attempt.I really do not think this have ever happened in the past.The tournament was a roller coaster ride.First of all Nadal had to pull out from this tournament in the league stage itself which gave Pablo Custa a surprise entry to the championship.
It was also the first time semi finals was contested with three debutants.Above all Dimitrov winning the championship.Roger Federer who was expected to win the championship in the semi finals after losing to David Goffin inthe semifinals.The way Goffin played against Federer it was predicted that he would eventually win the tournament.But in the finals Dimitrov raised his game at the correct time to win it.I was pretty impressed by the quality of tennis Goffin was playing.He has reached  quarter final of the grandslams only twice i.e once at this years Australian Open and once at last years French open.Semi finals of this tournament was the best match he had ever played.
Talking about Dimitrov,he has been playing good tennis for quiet some sometime.I believe the 2014 Wimbledon championships was one of his best performances where he managedto beat Andy Murray in straight sets and reach the semi finals.This year,he looked good,reached the semi finals of the Australian open.The icing in the cake is that he is ending this year year  his highest ever ranking 3.With only one Maters 1000 to his name,this tournament would surely be his greatest victories.I would surely like to see how he performs at the grandslams from next year.The most unfortuante exit was of Nadal who had to pull out because of his knee injury.His injury has been haunting him since Paris.I hope he his back next year stronger.
Finally I think the best thing about this tournament was that we found some really good players who can maintain the standard of this game as high as the BIG FOUR i.e Federer,Nadal,Djokovic,Murray have done.This is the first time in seven years that a player apart from the Big Four has managed to win this championship.These are great signs for the tennis.

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