Tennis Masters Cup

The tennis season has finally drawn to a close with a familiar sight to it: Roger Federer - all victorious. This hasn't been Federer's best year, yet he still walks away with 3 grand slams, the masters cup and the world no.1 ranking.

This week was the season finalé Masters cup tournament where the worlds top 8 players play each other in a round robin format. Federer suffered a shock early loss to an inspired Fernando Gonzalez but Federer stepped it up into that gear that nobody else has as he marched to the final without dropping a set the rest of the tournament. In the gold group, David Ferrer was in the form of his life beating world no.2 Nadal, no.3 Djokovic, no.4 Roddick and no.8 Gasquet!
Federer proved too much for the spandiard however as destroyed Ferrer 6-2 6-3 6-2 in the final.

Can anyone stop the mighty Federer? He has lost more matches this year but there is just something about him that says he can win anytime he wants to. Rafael Nadal is a bit like that too but only on the clay. Nalbandian, Djokovic, Murray have all shown they can cause him trouble, but none of them play so consistantly brilliantly in the big tournaments.

People say you are not the greatest until you win on all surfaces (something Borg did consistantly) but something tells me that we are watching the greatest player of all. He is a great clay court player already, it's just unfortunate he's living in the days of the best clay-courter ever in Nadal, but I can see him winning the french open and completing the illustrious elusive grand slam. It won't be long before he surpasses Sampras's record of 14 grand slams either (he only needs 2 more!).