ATP International Professional Tennis Federation, also known as the Professional Tennis Players Association.
The ATP is the "autonomous" organization of the world's men's professional tennis players.
When it was established in 1972 at the U.S. Open, its main task is to coordinate the partnership between professional athletes and events, and is responsible for organizing and managing the points, rankings, and bonus distribution of professional players, as well as formulating competition rules and granting or canceling bonuses to players.
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Over the past 20 years, the International Professional Tennis Federation has mainly done two major things.
The first is to reform the ranking list.
Mark Miles, the head of the Professional Tennis Federation, is an experienced sports agent. In order to improve the level of the competition, he first reformed the average system ranking method that has been used for many years.
This ranking method has been used since 1973. Its main drawback is that the number of annual competitions for some outstanding tennis players has dropped sharply.
Based on this point, the Professional Tennis Federation decided to adopt the "Best 14 Tournament Scoring System" to replace the average system ranking method. This is the ATP ranking we see now, which achieves the purpose of prompting players to participate in more competitions.
The second major thing the International Tennis Federation has done is to implement the "Super Tour Plan".
Since the Professional Tennis Federation adopted a new ranking method and adjusted the competition schedule, the professional tennis world has been busy. Several events will be held around the world at the same time, which can be said to be in full swing.
But as time went by, problems were exposed.
Since high-level players participate in several events, the number of confrontations between them is naturally reduced.
In addition, the pressure of too many games and rankings has overloaded many players, leading to an increase in injuries and abstentions, resulting in a decline in the level of competition.
Low-level competitions will reduce the interest of the audience, and losing the audience means losing the market. Based on these, a "Super Tour" was born.
The slogan of this plan is "less for more", that is, reducing the number of events to improve the quality of the game.
They reduced the original 11 highest-level events to 9 and organized the Super Tour based on them.
The total prize money for these events ranges from $600,000 to $2 million.
When selecting events, the Professional Tennis Federation fully considered factors such as venues, funds, and audiences, so that the nine events can fully demonstrate the different styles of men's professional tennis.
According to time and venue, they are: plastic courts - Lipton, Indian Villa; red clay courts - Monte Carlo, Hamburg, Rome; hard courts - Toronto, Cincinnati; indoor carpet courts - Stockholm, Paris
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In order to ensure the quality of the event, the professional tennis federation has signed contracts with the top ten players.
The contract stipulates that these players must attend the above events on time and cannot participate in other lower-level games at the same time.
Mark and Miles said that the goal of implementing the Super Tour is to "make tennis easier for people to understand and make more people love tennis."
The IBM/ATP World Championship Finals, held every year on November 15 in Frankfurt, Germany, attended by eight of the world's top players, and the ATP Tour Doubles World Championship held a week later in Johannesburg, South Africa, are the two most influential events in the International Professional Tennis Federation.
These two events will determine who is this year's top seeded singles player and top seeded doubles player.
The Masters Cup Tennis Masters Cup was born on December 9, 1999. On this day, the four major championship committees, ITF (International Tennis Federation) and ATP (Men's Professional Tennis Players Association) jointly announced the ATP year-end finals and
The men's Grand Slam Cup will no longer continue, and will be replaced by a new event - the "Tennis Masters Cup", the year-end finals of the men's professional tennis tour jointly owned by three organizations.
The new Tennis Masters Cup means a new cooperative relationship between all parties in the tennis industry, and a Tennis Masters Cup management entity with decision-making power has also been established.
The Tennis Masters Cup is the year-end finals of the ATP (Men's Professional Tennis Association) Tour. It brings together the top eight tennis players in the world to compete for a total prize money of up to 4.45 million US dollars and the highest honor of the year-end number one in men's professional tennis.
Tennis audiences around the world presented the most powerful visual shock in history.
As the finals of the men's professional tennis tour, the Tennis Masters Cup is the highest level event in tennis, covering the ATP series, Masters series, and the four Grand Slam tournaments.
Starting from January 1 of each year, male professional players will earn points from the four major championships, the nine Masters series and the five ATP Tour events with the best personal results.
As of Monday, the top seven players in the "ATP Championship Points Ranking" are eligible to enter the Tennis Masters Cup, and the eighth spot is reserved for the top 20 players who are one of the four major championships of the year.
player, or the eighth-ranked player.
Therefore, the Masters Cup is a real event where masters compete for supremacy and represents the highest level of competition in today's tennis world.
The Masters Cup finals are held in major cities around the world. Shanghai was fortunate to host the 2002 Masters Cup, making it one of the most successful events in history. It received unanimous praise from the ATP and participating players, and also set off a tennis craze in Shanghai.
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