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Professional tennis tour for retired players From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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 the world, with a year-ending "My World Champions Tennis" event held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[1] 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 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.
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Participants
The following is a list of past participants on the ATP Champions Tour
Mansour Bahrami
Jeremy Bates
Boris Becker
James Blake
Björn Borg
Sergi Bruguera
Omar Camporese
Pat Cash
Michael Chang
José Luis Clerc
Jimmy Connors
Albert Costa
Jim Courier
Marcos Daniel
Stefan Edberg
Younes El Aynaoui
Thomas Enqvist
Wayne Ferreira
Guy Forget
Renzo Furlan
Brad Gilbert
Justin Gimelstob
Andrés Gómez
Fernando González
Magnus Gustafsson
Paul Haarhuis
Tim Henman
Goran Ivanišević
Anders Järryd
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Petr Korda
Richard Krajicek
Aaron Krickstein
Magnus Larsson
Henri Leconte
Ivan Lendl
Todd Martin
Xavier Malisse
John McEnroe
Fernando Meligeni
Carlos Moyá
Thomas Muster
Yannick Noah
Mikael Pernfors
Mark Philippoussis
Cédric Pioline
Patrick Rafter
Guillaume Raoux
Marcelo Ríos
Andy Roddick
Greg Rusedski
Marat Safin
Pete Sampras
Fabrice Santoro
Flávio Saretta
Carl-Uwe Steeb
Michael Stich
Guillermo Vilas
Mats Wilander
Mariano Zabaleta
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- Only 4 participants
2009
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- Only 4 participants.
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