Spaniards Sink in London

No, it's not the Spanish-English war. We're talking 21st century tennis here. Spain’s top 2 players ended in the bottom of the heap at the Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals in London. At the completion of the tournament's round robin play on Friday, world #2 Rafael Nadal and #7 Fernando Verdasco were eliminated with 0-3 win-loss records.

Nadal, the second seed in group B lost all 3 matches in straight sets to lower ranked opponents, including French Open 2009 nemesis Robin Soderling. He was the only one in the tournament who failed to win a single set.

Verdasco was seeded 4th in Group A that had world #1 Roger Federer. He fared slightly better than his countryman by taking at least each of his matches to 3 sets. He even took a one set lead over Federer before losing the next couple of sets and the match to the top seeded player.

Still, it wasn’t all a bad week for the Spaniards. Though they both didn’t gain any ranking points due to their win-less campaign, they left London $120,000 richer than when they arrived.

Here’s hoping the Spaniards will be performing better in the Davis Cup Finals against the Czech Republic. The tie will be held on December 4-6 at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.