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By Tennis World Contributing Editor Andrew Burton*
Morning, all.
It's unseasonably cold in Calgary: a string of sub zero degree Celsius days, and a light dust of snow. Time for the things we've been saving for Autumn: some bottles of Aussie Shiraz, the track suit for our own tennis matches, and the last tournaments before the exhausted ATP and WTA elite gather for their year end championships.
This year, the ATP has moved its YEC to London, compensating Shanghai with a bright shiny ATP Masters 1000 tournament.It will be strange, for me at least, to see the year end ATP tournament in its new location, although the tournament was literally held within a stone's throw of my house in Houston for two years. A colleague persuaded me to play hooky from work to watch Federer-Gaudio, RR 2004: because of rain, we saw the warm-up and six points. This was before TW, of course. I suppose you can say my loss will be (ultimately) Rosangel's gain.
It was a busy night in the far east, with Djokovic and Tsonga winning ATP titles in Beijing and Tokyo respectively. For the WTA, Svetlana Kuznetsova enjoyed a straight sets win in Beijing over Agnieszka Radwanska.
Djokovic's post final experience sounds like it was something to see. According to commenter malimeda: