Shanghai-- Defending champion Andy Murray continues his progress in the tournament , as the top seed Rafael Nadal suffers another early loss.

Murray defeated Wawrinka 6-4 3-6 6-3 while Rafa lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to German Florian Mayer

Andy Roddick , Alexander Dolgopolov and Kei Nishikori also won their matches

Nadal's defeat means Djokovic will finish the year as the world number one.

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West Indies won the first ODI against Bangladesh at the Sher E Bangla stadium in Mirpur thanks to a fantastic ton by Lendl Simmons. The Tigers were left to rue their decision to field first as the Bangladesh opening pair piled on a partnership of 67 before Barath was forced to retire hurt. In came Marlon Samuels who along with Simmons saw West Indies pile on runs at a brisk pace. Simmons was the first wicket to fall on 217 but not before he piled on 122 at nearly a run a ball. Simmons was well supported by Samuels who made 71 from 78. Power hitter Kieron Pollard decided it was time for carnage as he made a typical quickfire 41 of a mere 26 balls to see West Indies finish on a mammoth 296.

A score at nearly a run a ball was always going to be a challenge and so it was as Tamim Iqbal fell early Naeem Iqbal (52) and Imrul Kayes (42) batted well but not at a pace that was required and hence lost wickets when the asking rate was around 8 an over. Shakib Al Hasan batted with great freedom and smashed a fine 67 not out from 58 as he tried to rescue Bangladesh but was left too much to do in too short space of time. Bangladesh will now need to regroup and try to find that touch with the bowling that was missing, whereas the Windies can move on and concentrate on playing their high game again.

The 25 year old Spaniard,the King Of Clay,and the person who is considered by many to be the greatest player ever to play the game has been on a shaky run this year.

The major problem for Rafa this year seems to be the one and the only man ,NOVAK DJOKOVIC,who has been in a truly sensational form winning 3 Grandslams and 5 ATP World Tour Titles in the 2010-2011 season so far.

Things seemed normal when Nadal lost to Djokovic in the final of BNP Paribas Open 2011 but they started getting fishy when Rafa again lost to Novak, this time in the final of Miami Masters 2011.From there onwards ,the Mallorcan has lost 6 battles against Nole ,each of them coming in tournament finals and the sentences like “…he’s done some unbelievable stuff” and “he has accomplished what is impossible to repeat..”have become very common in Rafa’s post match press conferences.

This bad patch for Nadal has become even more significant after his loss to Andy Murray in the final of Rakuten Open Tennis Tournament this past Sunday.

One of the most obvious reasons for Nadals losses (especially in the finals of tournaments)is that the repeated defeats from djokovic have distorted his mindset a lot and he hasn’t been able to fully concentrate on his game.

The verbal diarrhoea that sprouted out of alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed's mouth didn't spare anyone over the contentious issue of corruption in the game of cricket

In truth all these powerful men making loud noises on their soap boxes made you think in a manner that you logically do when confronted by this occurrence in life.


That their collective reactions made one believe threads of truth might exist in the claims


For all they had to do to kill the words from Mr Majeed was simply say this....