Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tsonga, overcomes Youzhney to win the Tokyo Open

Now with the Tokyo Open in his pocket, Tsonga's chances of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals, have greatly improved. If he does make the cut this will be his second year in a row doing so and with the super fast speed of the Indoor hard courts, Tsonga's, chances of winning there should be as good as any ones.

The next two Masters series tournaments will be played on hard courts, with the BNP Paribas Masters, being held indoors. This should be very good for Tsonga, who likes those fast courts where his serve and groundstrokes, penetrate with lightning fast speeds.

Last year at this time, Tsonga, became a dangerous player and managed to win Bangkok and Paris to seal his place in the year end Masters. I'm expecting similar results this year. Although, that 8th spot is still up for grabs. Gilles Simon, Fernando Verdasco, and Nikolay Davydenko are probably the players who will most seriously contend for it.

For now I'll go with these 8 players to make the World Tour Finals:

1. Roger Federer
2. Rafael Nadal
3. Novak Djokovic
4. Andy Murray
5. Juan Martin Del Potro
6. Andy Roddick
7. Jo Wilfried Tsonga
8. Fernando Verdasco

I'm going to go with Verdasco to just edge out Davydenko and qualify for the first time, in his career. Yeah, ok I admit I'm favoring him because I'm a Verdasco fan. :)

Anyway, that's just a guess, at this point but it seems like the most likely group to me.

No comments: