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World Tour Finals
Tampere, Finland is our host this year. Overall the group play section was very competitive - only Calisto Aviles failed to get a match win and even he took home one set. In his group, Group 2, three players had two wins so it went to tiebreaks and Chisulo Mpakati was a set short and the odd man out. Tough way to get knocked out. Jung and Haas were eliminated in the first group with one win each.
Three of the four semifinals were from Argentina, but it was rough luck for them that Harald Wentz continued his hot streak. Nicolas Perez got him to three tiebreaks in as many sets, but ultimately fell 7-6(4), 6-7(1), 7-6(2). Rather one-sided breakers for such a close match, but the stats say that Wentz was the deserving winner. In the other one, Lucas Perez was routinely dispatched by Tobias Velilla. He pushed Wentz to a third set in the final but was clearly outmatched, and the Austrian now has won four big titles in a row and his first Tour Finals. He still trails in the rankings against Perez, but the gap has shrunk from several thousand points to just 1300 in a few months. If he repeats these performances at the Australian Open and wins there, he'll claim the top spot - but a lot can happen between now and then.
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