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ATP World Tour Finals 2017: A Preview

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The views expressed by the author are personal, all facts and stats mentioned are true and accurate according to the author's knowledge, nevertheless, if any fact is inaccurate, leave a comment below. All images belong to ATP. The content is not sponsored by ATP, NITTO or any other organisation. Written by Vinayak Iyer, Mumbai, India. November 2017.  As the 2017 season draws to a close, all eyes are on the season ender ATP Finals where the top 8 players of the season compete bringing out the best tennis ever seen.   The NITTO (previously Barclays) ATP World Tour Finals featuring the top 8 singles and doubles players, has firmly established itself as a major sporting tournament and the world's biggest indoor tournament. Around 250,000 fans visited the O2 Arena in London and about 103.2 million worldwide streamed the action live via various official broadcasters, generating $2.6B through sponsorship, last year alone.  The tournament is of great significance as it
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#1.3.2

To be read after #1.3.1   The characters in the story are purely fictitious. Any resemblance with the characters in this story to the living or the dead is purely coincidental. The views expressed are personal. Written by Vinayak Iyer, Mumbai, India. October 2014.  "We found a vacated house. To be exact, the house in which you were now residing. It was a simple trick", continued Samuel, "we bought the house, made it haunted and sold it to a party. Then obviously nobody would want to live there. They sell it with minimum profit but it was me who got the maximum profit."     John was taken aback. He didn't expect this. All the more his temperature was rising. Samuel started again with a long pause but was stopped by John. "There's no need for explaining more. Now where's that Portuguese guy. Your plan is still working or not?" John mocked knowing he played spoilsport in the so-called game. "Whom are you selling it to?", asked Samuel o
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#1.3.1

   The characters in the story are purely fictitious. Any resemblance with the characters in this story to the living or the dead is purely coincidental. Written by Vinayak Iyer, Mumbai, India. October 2014.          The sun shone brightly the next morning. The rays penetrated Samuel's french windows. John woke up only to see Samuel in the dining room casting his eyes over the morning newspaper.  "Morning", John called out. "Good morning!", replied his friend. After some general chat over the breakfast, John decided to make a move.        "Well, the car better not follow you now. Look out for that!", Samuel joked. John said nothing but merely returned a smile. Nobody traced John this time as he entered his house. The day was event less and dull.         Later that evening, John made a surprise visit to Samuel's. He announced something that literally startled Samuel. John did not seem to notice the surprise as something out of the norm for, hi
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Author's Update

Hey everybody, Just wanted to let you know that story #1.3, the finale of strange events in John's life, will be published by mid-October as I have my term exams coming up. ~Vinayak Iyer
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#1.2

The characters in the story are purely fictitious. Any resemblance with the characters in this story to the living or the dead is purely coincidental. Written by Vinayak Iyer, Mumbai, India. September, 2014  The night was silent. John knew it. Yet, he was out of the house for some fresh chilly air trying to remember the paranormal incident happened nearly a week before. Cold winds helped the dry leaves of the trees rustle against each other.      John's house (as earlier described) was not on a main road rather it was inside a by-lane. John saw a bright light heading into the by-lane. The light however was that of a car, John noticed. "That's unusual", muttered John to himself. This road was usually quite silent and inactive hence, the activity of a car passing through the road in the dead night was not something for John to cherish about. "And by the way", John thought, "the lane hardly leads to any place of settlements. The lane goes right into a
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Author's Note

Hello Readers, First of all thank you for visiting this blog. I'm actually fascinated with stories with unexpected endings. So that's probably going to be displayed in my blog. The stories have a certain theme (maybe you notice it as time passes). Follow the blog and you'll be not sorry :P   Note: The updating of this blog will be done about once in a week. So hang around. 
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The characters in the story are purely fictitious. Any resemblance with the characters in this story to the living or dead is purely coincidental. Written by Vinayak Iyer, Mumbai, India. September, 2014     "Congratulations, bro!" "Thanks! It seems to be a good deal", John replied to his friend, Samuel.     He was certainly happy about the house he bought and was more glad that Samuel's house was just a block away. It surely can be said as "a good deal" but the street was evidently not populated. (It can be rather described as a by lane).     After helping and chatting with John for about half an hour, Samuel decided to leave. As he helped himself to the door, he said something very raw to John, "This is certainly not a good deal, my friend. You shouldn't have come here!".     John couldn't make head and tail of it and all the more he was excessively surprised at his best friend's behavior. "Well, I have been
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