This is why I never put much weight on this tournament, the players are beat-up at the end of the year and the format is very convoluted allowing a player to lose two matches and still win the tournament theoretically. It has a lot of points and purse but not prestige.

That’s why we’ve had so many non-big 4 winners compared to the slams like nalbandian, grigor, daveydenko, stef, zverev (x2), medvedev (at least he’s won a slam tho).