By Andrew Burton, TennisWorld Contributing Editor
Morning, all.
It's finals day in Europe: we have WTA finals in Luxembourg and Moscow, and ATP finals in Stockholm and Moscow. By the time you read this, Sunday's premier sporting event will be in the books: the Rugby World Cup Final in Auckland, New Zealand. It's 2:18am in the morning in Calgary as I write this post, and the pride of New Zealand, the All Blacks, have just gone over for their first touchdown, against the all white French (hence today's title). We have a few Aussies in the Tribe, but I don't know if we have any Kiwis among our regulars. (Late update: as at 4am, the All Blacks prevail, 8-7. Quite a scrap. Congratulations to New Zealand fans, commiserations to French fans).
If I told you we'd have an all-Serbian final today, I reckon you'd have Ivanovic and Jankovic pencilled in. But although these two have played ten times, they've never met in a final, and they aren't playing today. And it's an ATP final, not a WTA one. Ok, so we're talking Novak Djokovic and... nope, Djokovic is still recuperating from the back injury sustained in the Davis Cup tie against Argentina.
So, step forward Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki, Moscow finalists. Each man has one ATP title to his name: Tipsarevic's first came a few weeks ago in Kuala Lumpur, while Troicki is actually defending champion in Moscow. Whichever match takes your eye today, enjoy the tennis!