Shanghai Crisis Center, Day 5



A young Chinese boy with a mohawk haircut, holds up a poster of world number three Novak Djokovic of Serbia who was defeated by Richard Gasquet of France during their 2007 Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai match held at the Qizhong Tennis Stadium in Shanghai, 13 November 2007.  Gasquet went on to win 6-4, 6-2 and Djokovic has now been knocked out of the round robin tournament.      AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
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Good mornin', this will be your CC post for today, where you can discuss all the Masters Cup action. And here are a few site notes concerning the next few days.

Tomahawk Perrotta, who's in Shanghai and providing great coverage, is going to call the Roger Federer-Andy Roddick match (live!) at his String Theory blog. Just go to his site when the match begins and you will get Tom's running commentary. He'll be putting it into one or more posts which will be refreshed every few minutes as the match goes on. If you remember, I did something similar in Australia last year (I think it was the Rafael Nadal vs Andy Murray match),and that seemed to work out.

Also, Tom will be hosting a chat session at String Theory on Friday night (his time, which is 13 hours ahead of US Eastern Standard Time) , with a special invite to Tribe members to drop by and ask him anything about the Masters Cup (I'm going to ask him what the reaction over there has been like to news of the Gilbert-Murray split).  Read the item I am posting at String Theory when you get a chance for clear instructions on how to take part. I know that Tom's been talking to many coaches over there.

Enjoy the matches, everyone!