Federer Will Skip Paris Masters
<![CDATA[The World No.2 made the announcement after winning his 8th career title at Basel.]]>
Roger Federer has announced that he will skip next week’s Paris Masters.The Swiss won his 95th career title on Sunday in Basel, but will rest and recover with the World Tour Finals in mind.
Roger Federer has withdrawn with Back injury. the next player eligible to be seeded (Pouille) has filled the vacant position #RolexPMasters pic.twitter.com/QCd15TaHL7
— ROLEX PARIS MASTERS (@RolexPMasters) October 29, 2017
That means that Rafael Nadal has essentially clinched the year-end No.1 ranking. The Spaniard leads Federer by 1,460 points and there are only 1,500 points on offer at London.In other news, Federer has engaged in his time-honored tradition of sharing pizza with the Basel ball kids.
the tradition goes on @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/TELpSBIXvk
— rene stauffer (@staffsky) October 29, 2017
Pizza die Zweite! pic.twitter.com/xaWwNGnbED
— Simon Graf (@SimonGraf1) October 29, 2017
]]>Il est connu, ce livreur de pizzas, non? pic.twitter.com/8dweYt8ttt
— Arnaud Cerutti (@arnaud_cerutti) October 29, 2017
Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.
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