Defending champion Roger Federer, who has been ailing with a stomach flu, lost to Andy Murray in their round-robin match at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai. The loss prevents Roger to advance to the semis and possiby add to his tally of four titles at the year-end tournament. The no. 4 seed Murray takes on Nikolay Davydenko while the no. 3 seed Novak Djokovic battles Gilles Simon in the semifinals. Federer will end the year as no. 2 regardless of the final outcome in Shanghai.
With Rafael Nadal skipping the Tennis Masters Cup because of injury and with Roger Federer's loss, the top two players in the world end the year with 6,675 and 5,305 ranking points, respectively:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7B6JwEslHXqGh3TW_scsDg
(Please note that the rankings system will be overhauled by the ATP next year, so these points may be doubled at the beginning of the 2009 tennis season.)
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