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ATP – Yearend 2014 and Forecasts Change is a-comin’.  The big 4 (or big 3?) is not dead yet, but there has been an undeniable reboot of the system.  Before the 2014 US Open, the last time no Big-4 (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray) member made a slam final was at the 2005 Australian.  That’s over 9.5 years – long enough!  Looking at spots held in grand slam finals by Big-4 members per year (maximum 8), the trend is unavoidable.  The halcyon days are over.  What will 2015 bring? After a few years of relative stability, the top 10 have been infiltrated by the next tier.  Gone are the multi-year tenures of Tsonga, Gasquet, and Del Potro.  And teetering perhaps are Ferrer, Berdych, and Wawrinka.  The next wave has arrived. Finally. It’s only been forever... well seven years or so, since the exciting prospects of Djokovic and Murray, and then Del Potro, broke into our consciousness.  But that is an eternity