Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Gilles Simon beats Federer in the openining match of the Masters Cup.

I think Roger Federer, may have just blown his chance to win the Masters Cup this year. Fed, definitely needed to win his match against Simon and starting with an 0-1 record in the red group makes his chances of winning the tournament grim. The two Andy's now stand in his way. I could see Federer beating Roddick but Murray, has been giving him trouble in the past month and I wouldn't be at all suprised to see Roger fall to Murray this time. Simon, on the other hand is playing well and probably will be able to make it out of the red group, if he's able to beat Roddick.

I'm going to go with Murray and Simon as the two to progress out of the Red group. Wow, it would be really strange if Federer doesn't atleast make the finals, Federer has been to at least the finals for the past 5 years.

The gold group is harder to predict. Djokovic and Davydenko have made it to the Master Cup before but this is a first time for Del Potro and Tsonga. Tsonga, has just come off of his Paris win and should be a favorite to make it out of the gold group based on how well he's playing. Djokovic, is always dangerous but he's lost the last two times he's played Tsonga. It's hard to tell with Davydenko but I don't think he'll be able to beat two of the three younger players.

I'll pick Djokovic and Tsonga to make it out of the gold group and challenge Murray and Simon in the semi-finals.

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