Roger, Rafa To Innovate In The Round-robin Match

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have played each other three times in the Tennis Masters Cup / World Tour Finals, but never when the round-robin stage. That will change next week, because both men were withdrawn from Group B, which also includes Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Mardy Fish.

Since 2005, the first year of Federer and Nadal qualified for the final tournament of the season (even if Nadal does not play really), it was impossible for opponents who are at this point, they had always been the No. 1 and No. 2, in a certain order, and therefore can not be placed in the same group. However, the Serbian Novak Djokovic top drawer season allows the possibility of a round-robin roar this year. Will be one of the best tickets in London, for the first time since the third round of the 2004 Miami Masters, his first game as Federer and Nadal will face each other before the semifinals of a tournament.

History and current foster Federer currently ranked lower. The five-time champion is fresh off two songs in, Basel and Bercy and Nadal, who last played in the third round of Shanghai, has rarely flourished inside. He has never beaten Federer at the event, losing all three meetings, including last year's final