Four champs to congratulate this week!
ATP 500 Swiss Indoors
First up - its a huge congratulations to Joao Fonseca who won his 2nd ATP final of the year beating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the final. Fonseca maybe hasn't had the breakout year many were predicting but it has still been pretty decent and this win has bolstered his ranking going in 2026. The wait for a first ATP title goes on for ADF - five times finalist but still to get his first winners trophy.
Two of the main contenders for an ATP Tour fianls slot, FAA and Ruud both ended up retiring in the Quarter Finals along with Shapovalov. And there was a further retirement in the semi final with Humbert - strange goings on in Basel!!
WTA 500 Tokyo
The main storyline for this event was whether Elena Rybakina could win the two matches she needed to reach the semi finals and ensure her qualification for the WTA finals in Riyadh.
It wasn't an easy draw for her and she had to beat two talented Canadian youngsters in the shape of Leylah Fernandez and Victoria Mboko. But Elena got it done without dropping a set and promptly withdrew from her semi final with Linda Noskova!
The winner was Belinda Bencic who has had a terrific year since returning to the tour from having her first child. She now sits at No 11 in the rankings. This was her 10th career title and her 2nd since returning as a mum.
WTA 250 Guangzhou
It was third time lucky for Ann Li this year. She had already made finals in Singapore and Cleveland this year but this was her first trophy. A good week too for Lulu Sun who has struggled to reach her best level this year and just fell short in the final with Ann winning 7-6, 6-2.
ATP 500 Vienna
The top seeds lived up to their billing in the Vienna event. Sinner, De Minaur, Zverev and Musetti all made it to the semi finals and there is a good chance we will see all 4 of them in Turin at the end of the season although FAA is hot on the heels of Musetti.
And it was the top two who made the final. Zverev will be pleased he is ending the season strongly after a number of injury issues and he pushed Sinner close in the final but couldn't stop the Italian extending his indoor winning streak.
Here is the final FTL table for the game week.
Massive congrats to Win Matas who is this weeks game week champ with a terrific total of 477 points. A victory for perseverance as Win has being waiting for that elusive game week title for some time. Mark McDonald was the best of the rest finishing just 23 points back.
Here is the head to head between the two:
A pretty close run contest between these two teams. Mark was off to a little bit of a false start as he had still included Pegula despite the fact that she had called time on her Asian swing long before this event! No matter though Berrettini turned out to be an adequate substitute!
Both teams had a significant WTA differential in their team with Win backing Tokyo winner Belinda Bencic as a key player and Mark fielding Guangzhou winner Ann Li.
Zverev perhaps was the key differential between these two teams scoring 63 points for Win, as runner up in Vienna.
Congrats to Win and Mark on a great week!
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