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Barclays ATP World Tour Finals

barclay-atp-world-tourThe Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis event which takes place at the end of each year involving the top eight ranked tennis players in men’s tennis.

The tournament is not similar to other tournaments which feature straightforward knockout ties. Instead, the ATP World Tour Finals feature 8 players which are divided into two groups consisting of four players each. Each player then plays three round-robin matches against three other players in their respective groups. After this, the top 2 players in each group advances to semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final to determine the champion.

The tournament will be played for the second time in 2010 at The O2 Arena in London. After the champion is determined, the points are added to each player and the ATP World Tour Champion is crowned. The tournament first took place in Tokyo in 1970 and was known as The Masters Grand Prix. In 2009, the tournament was renamed as The World Tour Finals and is scheduled to be held at the O2 Arena till 2012.

Tournament facts –

Venue – O2 Arena, London, United Kingdom.
Surface – Hard / Indoors
Men’s Singles – 8 players
Men’s Doubles – 8 pairs
Courts – The O2 Arena with a capacity of 23,000 is one of the largest indoor arenas in Europe. The first ever Turbo Tennis tournament was hosted on 15th September 2007 at this Arena.  
Winner of most Men’s Singles titles –Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras– 5 titles
Tournament –21st to 28th November, 2010.
Past Winners –

Year

Winner

Location

2010

Roger Federer

London

2009

Nikolay Davydenko

London

2008

Novak Djokovic

Shanghai

2007

Roger Federer

Shanghai

2006

Roger Federer

Shanghai

2005

David Nalbandian

Shanghai

2004

Roger Federer

Houston

2003

Roger Federer

Houston

2002

Lleyton Hewitt

Shanghai

ATP WORLD TOUR

atp-world-tourATP is the Association of Tennis Professionals which was formed in 1972. This was formed to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. “Open Tennis” began in 1968 and since then tennis has come a long way and ATP has been an active part of this history.

Prior to 1968, the Grand Slam tournaments and all other National Championships were available to amateur competitors. In 1970, all the tournaments worldwide formed a unified circuit to form, what was called as Grand Prix. It was in 1972, when the leading professionals joined hands to create ATP. Since 1990, ATP is organizing principal tennis tours for men worldwide. It was known as ATP Tour and was renamed in January 2009 as ATP World Tour.

The Executive Offices of the ATP are in London, England; ATP Europe is based in Monaco; ATP Americas is based in Florida, USA; and the ATP International which consists of Asia, Africa and Australasia is located in Sydney, Australia. The ATP Tour comprises of 4 Grand Slams, 1 ATP World Tour Finals, 9 ATP World Tour Masters 1000, 11 ATP World Tour 500 Series, 40 ATP World Tour 250 Series, 1 ATP World Team Cup, 178 ATP Challenger Series and 534 Futures Tournament. There are points as well as prize money for each tournament-

Event Category

Number of Tournaments

Winner’s Ranking Points

Governing Body

Grand Slams

4

2,000

ITF

ATP World Tour Finals

1

1100-1500

ITF & ATP

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

9

1000

ATP

ATP World Tour 500 Series

11

500

ATP

ATP World Tour 250 Series

40

250

ATP

ATP Challenger Series

178

75-125

ATP

Futures Tournament

534

17-33

ITF

The Grand Slams includes tournaments- Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open. The Masters 1000 includes tournaments at Cincinnati, Indian Wells, Madrid, Miami, Monte-Carlo, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, and Toronto. Madrid is a combined men’s and women’s tournament and from 2011, Rome and Cincinnati will also be combined tournaments. The ATP 500 series includes tournaments at Acapulco, Barcelona, Basel, Beijing, Dubai, Hamburg, Memphis, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Valencia, and Washington.

The ATP 250 includes tournaments at Atlanta, Auckland, Bangkok, Bastad, Belgrade, Brisbane, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Chennai, Costa Do Sauipe, Delray Beach, Doha, Eastbourne, Estoril, Gstaad, Halle, Houston, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Moscow, Munich, New Haven, Newport, Nice, San Jose, Santiago, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Umag, Vienna and Zagreb.

ATP also publishes weekly rankings of professional players, known as the ATP Race.