| Main Performers | Tim Henman,
Mark Philippoussis,
Mansour Bahrami,
Pat Rafter,
Jamie Murray,
Greg Rusedski - tennis players |
| Set List | Henman v Philippoussis,
Rock Choir,
Speech,
Exhibition Doubles- Bahrami and Rafter v Murray and Rusedski |
| Performance Notes | This end-of-year tournament is the season finale to the Tour of Champions, a year-long Tour that makes its way across Europe and the world and pits past tennis champions against each other in order to earn ranking points. The Masters Tennis is now firmly established as the UK's most popular indoor tournament - drawing crowds of more than 30,000 over the course of the event.
A red carpet was laid for VIP guests.
'Wednesdays evening singles match came to an abrupt end after Mark Philippoussis was forced to retire with a back injury. The Australian trailed Tim Henman 4-5, and injured his back in his service motion to start the 10th game. Henman entertained the crowd at the Royal Albert Hall as he knocked up with the ball girls, a member of Il Divo who was in attendance and a member of the audience. But after several minutes of treatment, it was deemed Philippoussis was not fit to continue. "It was really unfortunate," said Henman. "It's a great new surface this year and I think it really benefits the players. You feel like you can construct rallies out there. I think we played some good tennis at times. To end like that is really unfortunate for Mark, hopefully he can recover quickly." Philippoussis said, "Obviously its not the way you want to finish on the court, especially for such a beautiful cause. It's a great event so it's incredibly disappointing. I was having a great time out there, it's a great court, so I hope I can rest it for a couple of days, and hopefully see if I can get out there on Friday."
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Mark Philippoussis was indisposed during the singles match due to injury. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/2013/168),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2013/74),
Poster (RAHE/2/2013/62) |