• Zverev beats world No 1 Nadal 6-2, 6-4• Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (5), 6-4They call it stormy Monday – except in the literature for the ATP Tour Finals, which labelled day two “momentous” – and so it proved, calamitously so, for Daniil Medvedev and Rafael Nadal.
The fourth iteration of the season-ending tournament, 50 years after it began in an art museum in Tokyo, has a year to run in
London to close out 11 years of extraordinary revenue churning before it moves to Turin in 2021. And, although there have been some low-key performances in recent years at the fag-end of the longest season in sport, the event is winding down on the southern reaches of the Thames in a stylish swirl of surprises and quite lovely tennis.