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Frenchmen Keep London Hopes Alive

  • Posted: Nov 02, 2016

Frenchmen Keep London Hopes Alive

Home favourites trying to qualify for season finale

Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin kept their London hopes alive on Tuesday with a 2-6, 6-0, 10-6 win against Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin are currently in 12th place in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London, 875 points behind Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi, who currently hold the eighth and final qualification spot into the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

But Huey/Mirnyi lost in the first round in Paris, giving Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin an opportunity to make up ground at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. The Frenchmen will face fifth seeds Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in the second round.

View the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London

Frenchmen Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga knocked out countrymen Jonathan Eysseric and Tristan Lamasine 7-5, 3-6, 10-7. Martin Klizan and Joao Sousa advanced past Fabrice Martin and Gilles Simon 6-4, 6-7(2), 10-7. Philipp Kohlschreiber and Dominic Thiem needed only 55 minutes to prevail against Paolo Lorenzi and Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 7-5.

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Sock Comforts Injured French Boy In Paris

  • Posted: Nov 02, 2016

Sock Comforts Injured French Boy In Paris

American learns it could have been worse

Jack Sock should have been celebrating his first-round win at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. But after his straight-sets win on Tuesday, the American could only think about the little boy who had been seen by paramedics during the match.

Was he OK? Is he still around? Where is he? Sock quizzed others after his win.

During the latter part of the second set, Sock had hit a first serve that landed out but bounced into the first row and hit the French boy in the mouth. The boy started crying. Play was stopped. On-site paramedics came and gave the boy an ice pack. Sock worried.

“Obviously I couldn’t see exactly what happened,” he said. “At first when I saw the serve go over and it hit him, I thought it could be his eye and he was wearing glasses, so could have been a disaster.”

Jack Sock

The 24 year old would soon learn the situation wasn’t as bad as he had feared. The boy, who was with his dad in the stands, had stuck around after the match. He had endured a bloody nose from Sock’s serve but not much else, Sock said.

The World No. 24 comforted the boy and posed for some photos with him. Sock also gave him one of his wristbands.

“It was better than I thought it was,” Sock said. “I’m glad he’s OK.”

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'Editor' Murray Tackles Serious Issue

  • Posted: Nov 02, 2016

'Editor' Murray Tackles Serious Issue

The World No. 2 served as guest editor on Tuesday for the Huffington Post

Andy Murray is addressing mental health and male suicide in his role on Tuesday as guest editor for the Huffington Post. The World No. 2 is teaming up with HuffPost UK as they launch Building Modern Men, a month-long focus that raises awareness of the suicide epidemic among men and the issues they face around identity. Murray penned an editor’s letter discussing his own experiences handling difficult emotions and the high rates of male suicide in the U.K.

You may have noticed I work in a pretty emotional job. Whether I’m winning or losing there’s a huge amount going on under the surface. The pressure is always there and quite honestly, at times it’s hard to hide.

In my younger years I sometimes struggled to manage what was going on in my head. Moments of anger or frustration would spill out and it rarely helped me win.

But when I cried on the centre court at Wimbledon after losing to Roger Federer, some people saw me in a different light.

People didn’t laugh or think less of me, it was the opposite. It felt like they respected me more. They respected me for letting off the pressure cooker of emotion and for letting the mask slip.

Sadly, many men don’t feel they can let the mask slip. Many men express their stresses and emotions in self-destructive and sometimes life-ending ways. They build up emotion and don’t have the tools to deal with what’s going on in their lives.

Suicide rates in the UK identify a glaring problem for men. In 2014 there were 6,109 suicides in the UK. 4,623 of these were male, which means suicide is the biggest single killer of men aged under 45 in this country. It’s time to act.

Suicide is very much a male epidemic, with men almost four times more likely than women to take their own life – but the reasons why are unclear.

Read Andy’s full editor’s letter

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Barclays ATP World Tour Finals And Nature Valley Team Up For Season Finale

  • Posted: Nov 01, 2016

Barclays ATP World Tour Finals And Nature Valley Team Up For Season Finale

Nature Valley becomes a Gold Partner

The ATP and leading global snack bar brand Nature Valley have today announced a new partnership with the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, which will take place at The O2 in London from 13-20 November 2016.

Nature Valley, which produces a wide range of ‘better for you’ cereal bar snacks made with great tasting ingredients, will become a Gold Partner at the elite global season-ending event which will see the best eight qualified singles players and doubles teams in the world battle it out on court. The partnership will provide on-court brand visibility with both a sport and leisure-focused UK audience and wider worldwide viewers.

In addition, Nature Valley ambassadors will be sampling over 100,000 full bars of the new gluten-free Protein range at the Official Fan Zone on-site giving spectators a full brand-to-hand experience to keep them fueled with a delicious tasting snack ‘for when hunger strikes’ during the course of the event.

Arjoon Bose, Marketing Lead for Snacking at General Mills which owns the Nature Valley brand, commented: “Following the successful debut of our British Tennis partnership this year during the summer grass court season, we are excited to build upon this sporting collaboration to now become the Official Snack Bar of the ATP World Tour season finale in London. Not only does this partnership enable us to now reach a wider audience and hopefully inspire new consumers and tennis fans to discover our products, it also marks our continued commitment to a sport that shares our passion for inspiring a healthy active lifestyle. With Nature Valley Protein, we see this association becoming even stronger.’’

Chris Kermode, ATP Executive Chairman and President, said: “We welcome Nature Valley, a leading global snack bar brand, on board as a Gold Partner of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. With more than 100 million global television viewers, and a footfall of approximately 400,000 people passing through The O2 across the eight days of the tournament, the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals offers a truly global platform and a wealth of marketing opportunities for our partners. We look forward to a successful partnership with Nature Valley.”

The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals has attracted more than 1.8 million fans to The O2 arena since the tournament moved to London in 2009. The tournament features the world’s best eight qualified singles players and doubles teams battling to win the biggest indoor tennis tournament in the world. The ATP announced last year that the event would remain at The O2 through to 2018. Tickets can be purchased at: www.BarclaysATPWorldTourFinals.com.

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