ATP World Tour Masters 1000

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The ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1990–1995 Championship Series, Single Week , 1996–1999 Mercedes-Benz Super 9 , 2000–2003 Tennis Masters Series , 2004–2008 ATP Masters Series ) is a series of nine men's tennis organized by the ATP Tennis Association Tournaments. After the Grand Slam tournaments and the ATP Finals , the Masters Series is the most important tournament series in men's tennis. The prize pool of a Masters Series tournament is more than $ 2.5 million. In contrast to the four Grand Slam tournaments, the games of the Masters Series are played in the best-of-three format (i.e. with two winning sets).

The Masters Series tournaments

Currently in the calendar

competition	Surname	Venue	first edition	Surface
Indian Wells Masters	BNP Paribas Open	Indian Wells , CA , United States	1987	Hard court
Miami Masters	Miami Open	Miami Gardens , FL , United States	1985	Hard court
Monte Carlo Masters	Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters	Roquebrune-Cap-Martin , France	1897	sand
Madrid Masters	Mutua Madrid Open	Madrid , Spain	2002	sand
Rome Masters	Internazionali BNL d'Italia	Rome , Italy	1930	sand
Canada Masters	Rogers Cup	Montreal / Toronto , Canada	1881	Hard court
Cincinnati Masters	Western & Southern Open	Mason , OH , United States	1899	Hard court
Shanghai Masters	Shanghai Rolex Masters	Shanghai , People's Republic of China	2009	Hard court
Paris Masters	Rolex Paris Masters	Paris , France	1968	Hard court (hall)

The Canada Masters takes place alternately in the cities of Montreal and Toronto, in even years in Toronto and in odd years in Montreal. The tournaments in Miami and Indian Wells have a field of 96 players and take place over a period of 1½ weeks, making them the only tournaments on the ATP World Tour with a tournament schedule that lasts longer than a week alongside the Grand Slam tournaments.

Former tournaments

Surname	Venue	from	to	Surface
Stockholm Masters	Stockholm , Sweden	1990	1994	Carpet (hall)
Food Masters	Essen , Germany	1995	1995	Carpet (hall)
Stuttgart Masters	Stuttgart , Germany	1996	2001	Carpet (hall)
Hamburg Masters	Hamburg , Germany	1990	2008	sand

World ranking points

For wins at tournaments of the Masters Series , the players receive a fixed number of points for the tennis world rankings :

Tournament category	S.	F.	HF	VF	AF	R3	R2	R1	additional points for qualification
ATP World Tour Masters 1000	1000	600	360	180	90	45	10 (25)	(10)	25 *

(*) If the main field of a tournament consists of more than 56 participants, a qualifier receives only 12 additional points.

Records

• Rafael Nadal won the most individual victories with 35 tournaments. Behind them are Novak Đoković (34), Roger Federer (28), Andre Agassi (17), Andy Murray (14) and Pete Sampras (11). Nadal reached the most finals with 51.

In doubles, the twin brothers Bob and Mike Bryan lead with 38 titles each, followed by Daniel Nestor with 28 and Todd Woodbridge with 18.

• Novak Đoković is the only player to have won all 9 individual tournaments of the Masters Series in his career. Behind him follow Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray with seven each.

In doubles, Bob and Mike Bryan have won ten different tournaments together (the nine on the current calendar and the Hamburg tournament, which has since been downgraded ); Daniel Nestor also succeeded in doing this with various partners.

• Most of the Masters Series tournaments in a single season won Novak Đoković with six titles in 2015. In 2011 Đoković won five times; just like Rafael Nadal in the 2013 season. Followed by Roger Federer (2005 and 2006) and again Rafael Nadal (2005) and Novak Đoković (2014 and 2016) with four titles each.

In doubles, Bob and Mike Bryan managed to win six tournaments in the 2014 season. In the 2007 and 2013 seasons, the Bryans were also successful five times, as did Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in 2009. In the 2010 season, the Bryans won four times in one year.

• Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Đoković are the only players who have made it to the final of all nine tournaments. Đoković holds the record for the most consecutive finals with seven (Rome 2015 to Miami 2016).

• The longest winning streak was Novak Đoković with 31 successes in 2011. In addition, with 39 wins in 2015, he holds the record for the most games won within a season.

• Rafael Nadal holds the record for the most consecutive Masters Series tournament victories with four consecutive titles. In the 2013 season, he won consecutive Masters tournaments in Madrid, Rome, Montreal and Cincinnati. Novak Đoković also succeeded in doing this across seasons in 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 (Shanghai, Paris 2013, Indian Wells, Miami 2014; Paris 2014, Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo 2015 and Shanghai, Paris 2015, Indian Wells, Miami 2016).

In doubles, Bob and Mike Bryan also achieved four titles in a row in the 2010 season (Rome, Madrid, Toronto, Cincinnati) and across the 2013/14 season (Paris 2013, Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo 2014).

• The tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami or Montreal / Toronto and Cincinnati take place one after the other. The double in Indian Wells and Miami has been achieved by seven players so far ( Jim Courier 1991, Michael Chang 1992, Pete Sampras 1994, Marcelo Ríos 1998, Andre Agassi 2001, Roger Federer 2005, 2006 and 2017 and Novak Đoković 2011 and 2014-2016) . The Montreal / Toronto-Cincinnati double, on the other hand, has only four players (Andre Agassi 1995, Patrick Rafter 1998, Andy Roddick 2003, Rafael Nadal 2013).

In doubles, the double in Indian Wells and Miami has so far been achieved by the pairings Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (1996), Wayne Black and Sandon Stolle (1999), Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor (2002), Bob and Mike Bryan (2014) and Pierre- Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut (2016). The double in Canada and Cincinnati was won by Bob and Mike Bryan in 2010 as the only pairing to date; Jonas Björkman won this double in 1999 with different partners.

• Three of the Masters Series tournaments are played on clay (until 2008 Monte Carlo, Rome, Hamburg; since 2009 Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid). So far, four players have managed to win these three tournaments at least once: Marcelo Ríos (Monte Carlo 1997, Rome 1998, Hamburg 1999), Gustavo Kuerten (Monte Carlo 1999 and 2001, Rome 1999, Hamburg 2000), Rafael Nadal (Monte Carlo 2005–2012, 2016–2018; Rome 2005–2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019; Hamburg 2008 and Madrid 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2017) and Novak Đoković (Monte Carlo 2013 and 2015; Rome 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2015; Madrid 2011, 2016 and 2019). In 2010, Rafael Nadal was the only player to win all three clay court masters tournaments in one season - Monte Carlo, Rome and Madrid.

In doubles, the pairings Wayne Ferreira and Jewgeni Kafelnikow (Monte Carlo 2000, Rome 2001, Hamburg 1995), Bob and Mike Bryan (Monte Carlo 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018; Rome 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2016; Hamburg 2007 and Madrid 2010, 2013) as well as Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić (Monte Carlo 2009 and 2010; Rome 2009 and 2014; Hamburg 2008 and Madrid 2009 and 2014) all three clay court tournaments for themselves. In addition, this was achieved with different partners Paul Haarhuis (Monte Carlo 1995 and 1998, Rome 1993, Hamburg 1993), Mahesh Bhupathi (Monte Carlo 2003, Rome 1998 and 2004, Hamburg 2002) and Max Mirny (Monte Carlo 2003 and 2006, Rome 2004, Hamburg 2005). Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić won all clay court tournaments in one season in 2009.

• The most wins in a single Masters tournament was Rafael Nadal in Monte Carlo with eleven titles (2005–2012, 2016–2018). Nadal also won nine titles in Rome. Federer won seven titles in Cincinnati. They are followed by Andre Agassi and Novak Đoković, each with six successes in Miami. Đoković and Federer also achieved five titles in Indian Wells, Nadal five titles in Madrid and Canada, and Đoković five wins in Paris.

In doubles, the pairing Bob and Mike Bryan achieve the most successes of a doubles team at a tournament with six wins in Monte Carlo; Mahesh Bhupathi in Canada, Nenad Zimonjić in Monte Carlo and Daniel Nestor in Madrid and Cincinnati were also able to celebrate five wins at a tournament with different partners.

Winners lists

→ Main articles : List of winners of Masters tournaments in tennis (singles)  and List of winners of Masters tournaments in tennis (doubles)

Web links

• ATP World Tour Masters 1000 on the site of atpworldtour.com (English)