Tennis: The Masters Not in Augusta

The tennis season is finally coming to a close. It is, by far, the longest of any sport. Only the Shell World of Golf series is harder to follow.

Before we say goodbye for a few months, I guess most of you said goodbye after the US Open, the top eight in the world, minus Rafael Nadal, play one last tournament to decide it all: the Masters Cup. The round-robin event divides the top eight into two groups, gold and red, and then each player must play the other three in the group.

The Red Group is Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Andy Roddick and Giles Simon. The Gold Group is Novak Djokovic, Nikolay Davydenko, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Martin del Potro.

Djokovic is usually pretty good at oddly formatted events like the Masters Cup, so I’ll give him the advantage. I would imagine it is difficult to stay focused when a match is the only thing separating you from few months vacation.

If you’d like to follow along, I don’t blame if you don’t, here are the most updated results.