ATP Champions Tour

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The ATP Champions Tour is a tournament series for former professional tennis players .

Like the ATP Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour, it is organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals .

history

The ATP Champions Tour was founded in 1997 and was dominated by John McEnroe in the early years . Over the years, more and more former world class players have joined the tour. Especially Marcelo Ríos and Sergi Bruguera were later able to win several tournaments. McEnroe still occasionally participates in the tour and won the tournament in Stockholm in 2016 at the age of 57 (his 24th title on the Champions Tour).

Tournaments

Five to ten tournaments are played annually and they are held in different cities around the world.

Tournament locations

Since the start of the tour in 1997, the London tournament has been on the tournament schedule as the tour finale at the end of the season, while the venues for the other tournaments change.

Overview of the tournament venues 2009–2019:

Tournament schedule

Eight players take part in each tournament. They are divided into two groups of four. The first in each group contest the final, the second in the group play for third place. In addition, the tournament in Delray Beach at the beginning of the year serves as an encounter between a team from Europe and a team from the rest of the world, similar to the Laver Cup, which was launched in 2017 .

Attendees

Eligibility to participate

All players who are over 30 years old, have finished their ATP World Tour career and also meet at least one of the following criteria are eligible to participate :

  • Former number 1 in the world rankings
  • Finalist in a Grand Slam tournament in singles
  • Individual player on a Davis Cup winning team.

In addition, two wild cards can be awarded for each tournament .

So far, 15 world number one have played in the Champions Tour : Boris Becker , Björn Borg , Jim Courier , Stefan Edberg , John McEnroe , Jewgeni Kafelnikow , Carlos Moyá , Thomas Muster , Patrick Rafter , Marcelo Ríos , Andy Roddick , Pete Sampras , Mats Wilander , Juan Carlos Ferrero and Marat Safin .

Tour winner

Since 2017 there has been no ranking list on the official website of the tour, which means that tour winners can no longer be traced.

year winner
2019 not played out
2018 not played out
2017 not played out
2016 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (7)
2015 ChileChile Fernando González
2014 CroatiaCroatia Goran Ivanišević (3)
2013 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (6)
2012 SpainSpain Carlos Moyá (2)
2011 SpainSpain Carlos Moyá (1)
2010 SwedenSweden Thomas Enqvist (2)
2009 SwedenSweden Thomas Enqvist (1)
2008 CroatiaCroatia Goran Ivanišević (2)
2007 SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera
2006 ChileChile Marcelo Ríos
2005 CroatiaCroatia Goran Ivanišević (1)
2004 United StatesUnited States Jim Courier
2003 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (5)
2002 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Korda
2001 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (4)
2000 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (3)
1999 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (2)
1998 United StatesUnited States John McEnroe (1)

Tournament winner

year Dublin Doha Naples new York Paris Geneva Frankfurt London more tournaments
2000 United StatesUnited States McEnroe SwedenSweden Borg United StatesUnited States McEnroe SwedenSweden Pernfors FranceFrance Forget United StatesUnited States McEnroe United StatesUnited States McEnroe AustraliaAustralia Cash 6x McEnroe , Borg , Cash , JärrydUnited StatesUnited States SwedenSweden AustraliaAustralia SwedenSweden 
2001 United StatesUnited States McEnroe - EcuadorEcuador Gomez - - - - FranceFrance Forget United StatesUnited States McEnroe
year Monte Carlo Doha Algarve Graz Paris Eindhoven Frankfurt London more tournaments
2002 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Korda - United StatesUnited States McEnroe GermanyGermany Becker SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hlasek United StatesUnited States McEnroe Czech RepublicCzech Republic Korda Czech RepublicCzech Republic Korda FranceFrance Noah
2003 United StatesUnited States McEnroe - GermanyGermany Sting GermanyGermany Becker FranceFrance Forget United StatesUnited States McEnroe - United StatesUnited States McEnroe United StatesUnited States McEnroe
year Rome Doha Algarve Graz Paris Eindhoven Frankfurt London more tournaments
2004 AustriaAustria template - United StatesUnited States Courier GermanyGermany Becker SpainSpain Bruguera CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević - United StatesUnited States Courier United StatesUnited States Courier
2005 AustriaAustria template SpainSpain Bruguera United StatesUnited States McEnroe AustriaAustria template United StatesUnited States Courier CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević United StatesUnited States McEnroe NetherlandsNetherlands Haarhuis 2x Ivanišević , piolineCroatiaCroatia FranceFrance 
2006 ItalyItaly Furlan ChileChile Ríos ChileChile Ríos ChileChile Ríos ChileChile Ríos ChileChile Ríos CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević NetherlandsNetherlands Haarhuis ChileChile Ríos , BrugueraSpainSpain 
year Rome São Paulo Algarve Graz Paris Eindhoven Frankfurt London more tournaments
2007 SpainSpain Bruguera SpainSpain Bruguera SpainSpain Bruguera GermanyGermany Sting SpainSpain Bruguera SpainSpain Bruguera NetherlandsNetherlands Haarhuis NetherlandsNetherlands Haarhuis 2x Bruguera , Järryd , GustafssonSpainSpain SwedenSweden SwedenSweden 
2008 AustriaAustria template United StatesUnited States Sampras ChileChile Ríos AustraliaAustralia Rafters SwedenSweden Edberg NetherlandsNetherlands Krajicek - FranceFrance Pioline 2x Ivanišević , Järryd , Ríos , Stich , McEnroeCroatiaCroatia SwedenSweden ChileChile GermanyGermany United StatesUnited States 
year Delray Beach São Paulo Algarve Zurich Paris Knokke-Heist Cheng you London more tournaments
2009 - SwedenSweden Enqvist United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rusedski - SwedenSweden Enqvist - SwedenSweden Enqvist AustraliaAustralia Rafters SpainSpain mantilla
2010 AustraliaAustralia Rafters SwedenSweden Enqvist SwedenSweden Enqvist SwedenSweden Edberg United StatesUnited States McEnroe CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rusedski CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević SwedenSweden Enqvist , Ivanišević , RafterCroatiaCroatia AustraliaAustralia 
2011 AustraliaAustralia Philippoussis SpainSpain Moyá - AustraliaAustralia Philippoussis - SpainSpain Moyá SpainSpain Moyá United KingdomUnited Kingdom Henman AustraliaAustralia Philippoussis , MoyáSpainSpain 
year Delray Beach São Paulo Stockholm Zurich Medellin Knokke-Heist Genoa / Milan /
Verona & Modena
London more tournaments
2012 SpainSpain Moyá FranceFrance Santoro United StatesUnited States McEnroe SpainSpain Moyá SpainSpain Moyá CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević - FranceFrance Santoro SwedenSweden Enqvist
2013 SpainSpain Moyá - SwedenSweden Edberg - - CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević - AustraliaAustralia Rafters SwedenSweden Enqvist
2014 United StatesUnited States Roddick - SwedenSweden Enqvist - - BelgiumBelgium Malisse CroatiaCroatia Ivanišević ChileChile Gonzalez
2015 United StatesUnited States Blake - - - - BelgiumBelgium Malisse United StatesUnited States McEnroe ChileChile Gonzalez SpainSpain Corretja , Sampras , GonzálezUnited StatesUnited States ChileChile 
year Delray Beach Stockholm Palma Monterrey Mexico city Seoul Bari London more tournaments
2016 Team USA United StatesUnited States McEnroe SpainSpain Moyá United StatesUnited States Blake SpainSpain Ferrero RussiaRussia Safin SwedenSweden Enqvist FranceFrance Santoro
2017 Team USA SpainSpain Ferrero SpainSpain Moyá FranceFrance Santoro - - - SpainSpain Ferrero United StatesUnited States Rusedski
year Delray Beach Brussels Also terarder Palma London Stockholm - - more tournaments
2018 International team BelgiumBelgium Malisse AustraliaAustralia Philippoussis GermanyGermany Haas SpainSpain Ferrero - - -
2019 International team SpainSpain Ferrero Team Sweden - -

Not all tournaments are listed as many have only taken place a few times. Due to changing tournament dates, the order does not always correspond to the chronological order in the current year.

general overview

space Surname Victories
1. United StatesUnited States John McEnroe 26th
2. CroatiaCroatia Goran Ivanišević 13
3. SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera 10
3. SwedenSweden Thomas Enqvist 10
3. SpainSpain Carlos Moyá 10
6th ChileChile Marcelo Ríos 8th
7th AustraliaAustralia Patrick Rafter 5
8th. United StatesUnited States Jim Courier 4th
8th. NetherlandsNetherlands Paul Haarhuis 4th
8th. AustriaAustria Thomas Muster 4th
8th. FranceFrance Fabrice Santoro 4th
12. GermanyGermany Boris Becker 3
12. SwedenSweden Stefan Edberg 3
12. FranceFrance Guy Forget 3
12. SwedenSweden Järryd is different 3
12. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Korda 3
12. AustraliaAustralia Mark Philippoussis 3
12. GermanyGermany Michael Stich 3
12. ChileChile Fernando González 3
12. SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 3
12. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Greg Rusedski 3
22nd United StatesUnited States James Blake 2
22nd BelgiumBelgium Xavier Malisse 2
22nd United StatesUnited States Pete Sampras 2
22nd SwedenSweden Bjorn Borg 2
22nd AustraliaAustralia Pat Cash 2
22nd FranceFrance Cédric Pioline 2
22nd ItalyItaly Renzo Furlan 1
22nd EcuadorEcuador Andrés Gómez 1
22nd SwedenSweden Magnus Gustafsson 1
22nd United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tim Henman 1
22nd SwitzerlandSwitzerland Jakob Hlasek 1
22nd NetherlandsNetherlands Richard Krajicek 1
22nd SpainSpain Félix Mantilla 1
22nd FranceFrance Yannick Noah 1
22nd SwedenSweden Mikael Pernfors 1
22nd United StatesUnited States Andy Roddick 1
22nd SpainSpain Álex Corretja 1
22nd RussiaRussia Marat Safin 1

Status: end of 2017

See also

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