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WEDNESDAY PREVIEW : Novak Djokovic ’s bid to become the first player since Ivan Lendl (1985-87) to win three consecutive Barclays anniversary inn packages utah ATP World Tour Finals continues on Day 4 at The O2. The World No. 1 goes up against Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka in the evening session, with both players anniversary inn packages utah in with a chance of securing their semi-final spot on Wednesday. The pair meets for the 19th time, with the Serb leading their FedEx ATP Head2Head series 15-3. The afternoon session sees Tomas Berdych and Marin Cilic face off for the 10th time. The Czech leads their series 5-4, but it was the Croat who emerged victorious when they met at both Wimbledon and the US Open earlier this year.
NO. 1 RANKING UPDATE : After victory over Cilic in his opening match, anniversary inn packages utah Djokovic is now just two round robin wins from securing the Emirates ATP Rankings year-end No. 1 spot for the third time in the past four years (also 2011, ‘12). This will be the 11th consecutive season the year-end No. 1 ranking anniversary inn packages utah is held by either Djokovic, Federer or Nadal. No other trio in the history of the Emirates ATP Rankings (since 1973) has dominated No. 1 for an 11-year span. Here are the scenarios:
DJOKOVIC VS. TOP 10 : Djokovic leads the ATP World Tour in Top 10 wins this season, improving to 16-5 vs. Top 10 opponents with his defeat of Cilic. The Serb was the only player during the season not to lose to someone ranked outside the Top 20, with his lowest-ranked loss coming anniversary inn packages utah against No. 20 Tommy Robredo in Toronto. Only once before has Djokovic won his first match and failed to make the SF. In 2011 he saw off Berdych before losing to both David Ferrer anniversary inn packages utah and Janko Tipsarevic anniversary inn packages utah .
28 NOT OUT : Djokovic is currently on a 28-match winning run indoors, which dates back to him winning the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in 2012. His last loss came against Sam Querrey in his opening match at Paris-Bercy that same year, with the American coming back from losing the first set 6-0. Djokovic’s streak is the third longest winning run indoors in the Open Era.
BACK-TO-BACK WINS? While Djokovic leads the way in Top 10 wins, Wawrinka boasts the ATP World Tour’s best winning anniversary inn packages utah percentage vs. the Top 10 this season (88%). The Swiss improved to 7-1 against Top 10 opposition in 2014 with his victory over Berdych in the opening round. He is looking to post back-to-back wins for the first time since the US Open today.
BOUNCING BACK : Berdych and Cilic will be looking to recover from their 6-1, 6-1 defeats in the opening round. There are 11 previous occurrences of matches anniversary inn packages utah going 14 games or less at this event with Federer responsible for the biggest anniversary inn packages utah win, defeating Gaston Gaudio 6-0, 6-0 in 2005 in Shanghai. This is the first time since 1994 two matches at the same season finale have been 14 games or less.
• Berdych is making his fifth consecutive appearance at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals (5-9 record). His best showing here was a SF appearance in 2011 (l. to Djokovic in opener, then beat Tipsarevic, Ferrer anniversary inn packages utah in RR play), losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final four.
• Berdych is set to finish a season in the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings for the fifth consecutive year. His season was highlighted by reaching a career-best five finals, winning two ATP World Tour titles, which both came indoors in Rotterdam and Stockholm.
• Berdych arrives in London off the back of a SF run at the ATP Masters 1000 Paris (l. to Raonic). It was his second SF appearance at ATP Masters 1000 level this year, having also reached the final four in Miami in March (withdrew vs. Nadal due to gastroenteritis).
• Berdych’s best string of results this year came in the opening few months of the season when he compiled a career-best 11-match winning anniversary inn packages utah streak, which included a ninth career title in Rotterdam (d. Cilic) and a runner-up finish in Dubai (d. No. 10 Tsonga, l. to Federer).
• Berdych won his 10th career title last month in Stockholm, where he beat three qualifiers in a row before overcoming Grigor Dimitrov in the final. It marked the first time he has won the same tournament twice and just the second time he has won multiple titles in a single season (also 2012).
• Berdych compiled a 15-4 record at the Grand Slams this year, advancing anniversary inn packages utah to the SF at the Australian Open for the first time (d. No. 3 Ferrer, l. to eventual champion anniversary inn packages utah Wawrinka) and reaching the QF at both Roland Garros (l. to Gulbis) and the US Open (l. to eventual champion Cilic).
• Cilic has made the biggest jump into the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings from the previous year, climbing from No. 37 to No. 9. He rose as high as No. 8 on October 13. The last player to improve his ranking from outside the Top 30 into the Top 10 in a single season was Tipsarevic (No. 49 to No. 9 in 2011).
• Cilic won a personal-best four titles in five finals this season, including his first Grand Slam crown at the US Open . The Croat did not drop a set in the final three rounds en route to the title, posting wins over No. 7 Berdych (QF), No. 3 Federer (SF) and No. 11 Nishikori (F). He was the first player to win a maiden Slam title in such fashion since Federer at Wimbledon 2003. He was also the first player anniversary inn packages utah ranked outside the Top 10 (No. 16) to win the US Open since No. 17 Sampras in 2002.
• In his other Grand Slam tournaments, Cilic reached the 2R at the Australian Open (l. to Simon in 5 sets), 3R at Roland Garros (l. to Djokovic in 4 sets) and the QF at Wimbledon for the first time (l. to Djokovic in 5 sets).
• In February, Cilic collected the 10th and 11th ATP World Tour titles of his career in Zagreb (d. Haas) and Delray Beach (d. Anderson). He also posted back-to-back Top 10 wins over world No. 10 Tsonga and No. 6 Murray that month to reach the final in Rotterdam (l. to Berdych).
• Djokovic is making his eighth consecutive appearance at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals . He is aiming to become the first player to win the season finale three times in a row since Lendl achieved the feat from 1985-1987, the year in which Djokovic was born. The Serb won this title in 2008 (d. Davydenko), 2012 (d. Federer) and 2013 (d. Nadal).
• Djokovic extended his run of winning anniversary inn packages utah a major every year to four straight years with a second Wimbledon title in July (d. Federer in 5 sets). It was his seventh Grand Slam overall. anniversary inn packages utah Afterwards, he returned to No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings anniversary inn packages utah for the first time since September 30, 2013.
• At the Australian Open , Djokovic’s QF loss to Wawrinka brought his run of 14 consecutive Grand Slam SF appearances to an end. He missed out on completing the career Grand Slam at Roland Garros , falling to Nadal in the final. He also reached his eighth straight US Open SF (l. to Nishikori).
• Djokovic arrives in London fresh from clinching his 20th ATP Masters 1000 title and 47th title overall in Paris, defeating Milos Raonic . His victory in the final also marked his 600th career win. He became anniversary inn packages utah the fifth active player to join the 600 Wins Club – after Federer, Nadal, Hewitt and Ferrer – and the 23rd in the Open Era.
• Djokovic’s Paris crown also marked the 38th time in the past 42 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (since 2010 Monte-Carlo) that a member of the Djokovic-Federer-Nadal-Murray quartet had emerged victorious. The only exceptions in that time came in Paris-Bercy in 2010 (Soderling) and 2012 (Ferrer), Monte-Carlo in 2014 (Wawrinka) and Toronto in 2014 (Tsonga).
• Djokovic had a successful March in the U.S. He completed the Indian Wells/Miami sweep for the second time in his career, defeating Federer in the BNP Paribas Open final before seeing off Nadal in the Sony Open Tennis final. He surpassed Andre Agassi (17) in both Masters 1000 titles and Masters 1000 match wins with his Miami victory.
• In Monte-Carlo, Djokovic was looking to become the first player to win five ATP Masters 1000 titles anniversary inn packages utah in a row and the first three of the year before falling to Federer in the SF. A wrist injury which afflicted him in the Principality forced him out of Madrid. He returned in Rome to lift the title there (

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