The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organisation is the WTA Tour.

ATP Tour tournaments

The ATP Tour comprises ATP Masters 1000, ATP 500, and ATP 250 and the United Cup.[1] The ATP also oversees the ATP Challenger Tour,[2] 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 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 the season-ending ATP Finals, which, from 2000–2008, was run jointly with the ITF. The top 21-and-under players may compete in the season-ending Next Generation ATP Finals if they do not qualify for the ATP Finals. The details of the professional tennis tour are:

CategoryTournamentsWinner's ranking pointsAverage prize money[3]Governing body
Grand Slam 42,000US$24,266,872ITF
ATP Finals 11,100–1,500US$7,250,000ATP
Next Generation ATP Finals 10US$2,000,000ATP
ATP Masters 1000 91000US$5,007,832ATP
ATP 500 13500US$1,803,832ATP
ATP 250 39250US$615,151ATP
United Cup 1500 (max)US$15,000,000 (2023)ATP/WTA
Davis Cup 10US$15,300,000 (2021)ITF
Olympics 100IOC/ITF
ATP Challenger Tour 17850 to 175$64,901ATP
ITF Men's Circuit 53418 to 35$17,798ITF

ATP rankings

ATP publishes weekly rankings of professional players.[4]

Current rankings

Records

See also

References

  1. ↑ ATPTour.com. "ATP Tour calendar" Archived 2022-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ ATPTour.com. "ATP Challenger Tour" Archived 2020-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Average Payout by Tournament Archived 2022-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, PTPA
  4. ↑ "ATP Rankings". ATP. Archived from the original on 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Current ATP Singles Ranking". Association of Tennis Professionals.
  6. ↑ "Official ATP Ranking". live-tennis.eu.
  7. ↑ "Current ATP Doubles Ranking". Association of Tennis Professionals.
  8. ↑ "Official ATP Doubles". live-tennis.eu.
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