Hi I'm John McConor and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast Catherine Whittaker and myself David Lawre here

to talk tennis. It's been a while Catherine how you doing?

It's been 40 long I'm doing very well thanks how are you?

I'm alright. I tell you what it's got in exciting the tennis circuit isn't it?

We're getting into the sharp end of the WTA finals.

We're about to end to the semi-final stage it's Friday at the moment so you've just been doing

some wizardry and with the mathematics I don't understand what's going on other than the fact

that Simone Hallop and one of the players of qualified already is that right?

Yes I believe Caroline Muiznyaki has qualified.

Correct yes absolutely that's why we bring Catherine because she understands it and I don't

and the ATP finals listeners is also becoming exciting in terms of who qualifies for the seventh

and eighth positions currently already qualified Raffaun the down Novak Chokovic, Roger Federer,

Stanislav Vavrinka. Who else has already qualified Catherine?

Marantillic, Kene Shikori.

That's correct and Thomas Birdich is in seventh position and then it is a wacky race is

dashed to the finish line for position number eight isn't it with Andy Murray,

Milos Rownitch, David Ferrer, Gregor Dimitrov all fighting it out with just 300 points blanketing them all.

Yeah between it looks like between Murray and Ferrer there's I mean there's nothing there's

a hairs breadth and Milos Rownitch about 50 points behind 70 points behind something like that

Gregor Dimitrov slightly off the pace but still in the race so certainly not out of the question

so Catherine who's going to qualify then?

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