The Swiss, who can still make the semi-finals, faces a concluding round-robin match against David Ferrer, who was beaten 6-4, 6-4 by Tomas Berdych.
If crowd support can lift a golfer, the co-leader of the P.G.A. Championship will rise with a home-field advantage of sorts in the concluding round.
London was chosen to host the 10th and concluding round of the inaugural Formula E championship, a suitably hip finale at the end of a nine-month campaign that began last September in Beijing and visited other bucket-list favourites like Miami, Moscow, Berlin, and Buenos Aires, plus racing staples Monaco and Long Beach.
Only an unthinkable turn of events can stop Melbourne Victory from officially collecting the Premiers Platee in next weekend's concluding round.
(The concluding round on "The American Bible Challenge," by way of contrast, is called the Final Revelation).
Ford, despite a mixed day off the tee, also guided his team expertly around the field while another England hopeful, Henry Slade, was his side's best player in the concluding round of matches before the Premiership goes into brief hibernation.
They had followed every twist and try of the back-to-back fixtures in this concluding round of the Six Nations, from Wales putting 61 points on Italy in Rome at lunchtime, through Ireland's mid-afternoon rout of the Scots to a uniquely frenzied denouement at a floodlit stadium.
If, as seems likely, François Hollande prevails over Nicolas Sarkozy in the concluding round on Sunday, he will press for growth to become the priority.Mr Draghi had himself recently called for a "growth compact" to accompany the recently agreed "fiscal compact", which enshrines austerity in national laws.
The battle for corporate survival within the financial sector is concluding round one, and it's enormously bullish for the country.
The concluding round-table of the conference on 'Cancer and Society' touched on several issues, three of them receiving special emphasis.
That, in a nutshell, was the focus of debate during the country's recently concluded round of political party conferences.
