a slam for over 2 years and didn't win a masters series in 2010 and maybe just one in 2011. Dave - It is certainly possible that my thinking could be limited, small-minded and fossilized. I do not claim to "understand" tennis or sports a great deal or to have a great understanding of tennis history. Therefore, it is possible that my views may not be taken seriously by the great authorities on the subject. It is with much trepidation, therefore, that I attempt a response. I'd like to believe there is a difference between absolutely impossible and "virtually impossible". The Fed year-end top rank situation is theoretically possible but highly improbable. Please find me a precedent when a player won 3000 points in three weeks at the end of the season. Even if a 31-year old player somehow manages to do this, he still has to rely on his rival to perform relatively poorly. This is where I think an in-form, in-his-prime Djoko is unlikely to slip but you think that your grounded-in-hard- facts theory of Djoko being "mediocre" indoors provides sufficient reason for another dodgy performance at Becy and WTF. The fact that he has won TMC or Bercy in the past is insignificant to you but the monumental gap of 2.9%(71.8%-68.9%) is relevant in how he is likely to do indoors. Murray has only one masters title indoors and that too way back in 2008. He has not reached another indoor masters final before or since that