The ATP Champions Tour was a men's tennis tour intended for former tennis professionals, who have since retired from mainstream professional tennis touring (The ATP ). The Tour brings together many of the greatest tennis players in history for nostalgic, competitive and entertaining tournaments in cities around the world.
6-466: For a player to be eligible for play on this tour, he must be in the year of his 35th birthday or have been retired from the ATP Tour for two years or more. Each player must have been either a world No. 1 , a Grand Slam finalist, or a singles player in a winning Davis Cup team. Each event can also invite two players of its choice to take wild cards. The Tour usually consists of around 10 events around
12-645: Is a list of past participants on the ATP Champions Tour ATP Tour The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix Circuit and WCT Circuit . The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and
18-885: The best of three sets, with the deciding set taking the form of a Champions tie-break. The Champions tie-break is an expanded version of the conventional professional tennis tie-break, whereby the winner is the first player to reach 10 points and lead by a margin of 2. Rankings points on the Tour are distributed as follows: Winner: 400 / Runner-up: 300 / 3rd place: 200 / 4th place: 150 / No. 5-6: 80 / No. 7-8: 60 points. Notable participants, in past and present, were: John McEnroe , Björn Borg , Mats Wilander , Henri Leconte , Pete Sampras , Mansour Bahrami , Stefan Edberg , Boris Becker , Jim Courier , Thomas Muster , Marcelo Ríos , Fernando González , Goran Ivanišević , Yevgeny Kafelnikov , Patrick Rafter , Ivan Lendl , Carlos Moyá , Jimmy Connors , Tim Henman and Andy Roddick . The following
24-690: The entry-level ITF World Tennis Tour do not fall under the purview of the ATP, but are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) instead and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the Olympics. In these events, however, ATP ranking points are awarded, with the exception of the Olympics. Players and doubles teams with the most ranking points (collected during the calendar year) play in
30-805: The third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour . The equivalent women's organisation is the WTA Tour . The ATP Tour comprises ATP Masters 1000 , ATP 500 , and ATP 250 and the United Cup . The ATP also oversees the ATP Challenger Tour , a level below the ATP Tour, and the ATP Champions Tour for seniors. The Grand Slam tournaments, the Olympic tennis tournament , the Davis Cup , and
36-638: The world, with a year-ending "My World Champions Tennis" event held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Events are typically played over four days with eight-man fields competing against each other in a round-robin format, ensuring that all players feature in at least three matches. The players are split into two groups of four. The top player from each group contests the final, while the two players who finish second in each group play off for third and fourth places respectively. Matches are contested over
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