Home town favourite Andy Murray faces a tough task at the ATP's season-ending World Tour Finals in London, having been drawn in Group B alongside Roger Federer.
Murray's task hasn't been made any easier with Group B also consisting of world number seven David Ferrer and the man who has just replaced the Scot as world number four, Robin Soderling.
The tournament which is being held at London's o2 Arena from November 21-28 divides the top eight players from across the season into two groups of four. The players then play each other in a round-robin format for qualification through to the knockout semi final matches.
World number one Rafael Nadal as well as Novak Djokovic, Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick will compete in Group A, which will throw up repeats of this year's 'US Open' and 'Wimbledon' finals in which Nadal defeated Djokovic and Berdych respectively.
Up to a quarter of a million spectators are expected at the o2, and Murray can rely on vociferous support from the partisan crowd.
"The atmosphere when I played last year was amazing," the Australian Open finalist added. "Hopefully that will help me again this year."
With crowd support in tow, Murray doesn't believe that his group is more difficult than the other, and is eagerly awaiting his opening match on Sunday.
Murray will begin his quest for the title against Sweden's Robin Soderling in the tournaments curtain raiser.
Group A: Rafael Nadal (Spain), Novak Djokovic (Serbia), Tomas Berdych (Czech Rep), Andy Roddick (US)
Group B: Roger Federer (Switzerland), Robin Soderling (Sweden), Andy Murray (Britain), David Ferrer (Spain)
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