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21-557: The ATP Masters events, known as ATP Masters 1000 tournaments since 2009, are an annual series of nine tennis tournaments featuring the top-ranked players on the ATP Tour since its inception in 1990. The Masters tournaments, sitting below the Grand Slam tournaments and the year-end championships , make up the most coveted trophies on the annual ATP Tour calendar. In addition to the quadrennial Summer Olympics , they are collectively known as

42-418: A Romanian billionaire businessman and former ATP professional, was the owner of the tournament between 2009 and 2021. According to Digi Sport which interviewed Țiriac in 2019, the tournament brings to the city of Madrid annual benefits exceeding €107 million. In 2021, Țiriac sold the tournament to New York–based IMG for approximately €390 million. From its inauguration as a men's only event in 2002,

63-614: A new complex with a retractable-roof equipped main court was constructed, the Caja Magica . Țiriac announced in April 2019 that he has extended his sponsorship contract of the Mutua Madrid Open for 10 additional years, until 2031. Because he agreed to continue in Madrid, Țiriac will receive more than 30 million euros from the city of Madrid in the coming years. Feliciano López was announced as

84-666: A team. Daniel Nestor and the Bryan brothers are the only doubles players to achieve the career Golden Masters . The Masters series was introduced in 1990 with the inception of the ATP Tour by bringing together the nine most prestigious tournaments of the preceding Grand Prix Circuit of the Grand Prix Super Series . Results in ATP Masters events earn players more ranking points than regular tournaments but less than Grand Slam events or

105-641: Is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Madrid , Spain. It is played on clay courts at the Caja Mágica in Manzanares Park , San Fermín , and is held in late April and early May. The tournament is an ATP Masters 1000 event on the ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 event on the WTA Tour . The tournament is traditionally played on a red clay surface, though it was played on blue clay courts in 2012. Ion Țiriac ,

126-893: The United Cup . The ATP also oversees the ATP Challenger Tour , 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

147-473: The ' Big Titles '. Novak Djokovic holds the record for the most Masters singles titles with 40. By completing the career set of all nine current Masters series singles titles in 2018 , Djokovic became the first and only player to achieve the career Golden Masters . In 2020 , Djokovic completed a second career Golden Masters. In doubles, the Bryan brothers ( Bob and Mike ) won a record 39 doubles titles as

168-594: The ATP Finals from 2005 until 2008. Other than Hamburg, the tournaments defunct between 1990 and 2009 were Stockholm (1990–1994) and Stuttgart (1995–2001), which were held as indoor events in the eighth slot. The achievement of winning all of the active nine ATP Masters tournaments over the course of a player's career. Africa America Asia & Oceania Europe Reference: Overall statistics WTA Tour records ATP Tour The ATP Tour comprises ATP Masters 1000 , ATP 500 , and ATP 250 and

189-544: The ATP Finals. The details of the professional tennis tour are: ATP publishes weekly rankings of professional players. [ vedit   · edit source ] [ vedit   · edit source ] Madrid Open (tennis) The Madrid Open (Spanish: Masters de Madrid ; formerly known as the Madrid Masters , and currently known as the Mutua Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons )

210-494: The ATP Masters 1000: Canadian Open (alternating yearly between Montreal and Toronto ), Italian Open (held in Rome ), Indian Wells Open , Miami Open , Monte-Carlo Masters , Madrid Open , Cincinnati Open , Shanghai Masters and Paris Masters . Since 2009 , five of the tournaments have been held on outdoor hard courts, three on clay and one on indoor hard court, whereas from 1990 until 2008 there were two indoor tournaments at

231-772: The ATP calendar for the coming year. The ATP Masters 1000 event in Madrid along with those in Shanghai and in Rome would now be held over two weeks starting in 2023 , thus becoming 12 day events just like the Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami. Tiriac proposed and implemented in 2012 a new color of blue clay for all the courts' surfaces, motivating that it would supposedly be better visually, especially for viewers on television (analogous to some hardcourt surface events migrating to blue from various previous color schemes). Some speculated that

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252-518: The Madrid tournament director, commencing 2019. Starting in 2021, the women's tournament, part of the WTA tour, expanded to become a two-week tournament. By December of the same year, it was announced Tiriac sold the event to IMG, which is now the new organizator and has already planned an expansion of courts, including a new stadium for over 10,000 people, to be built by partly draining the lake circling Caja Magica. In June 2022 ATP announced some changes to

273-507: 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

294-510: The adaptation of blue colour was a nod to the titular sponsor of the tournament, the Spanish insurance giant Mutua Madrileña. This controversial change was subsequently granted and began to be used in the 2012 edition of the tournament. In 2009 one of the outer tennis courts had already been made of the new surface for the players to test it. Manuel Santana , the Open's director, had assured that aside from

315-401: The colour, the surface kept the same properties as the traditional red clay. On 1 December 2011, Țiriac confirmed that the blue clay surface was officially approved for the 2012 edition of the tournament, in both the ATP and WTA circuits. However, after the event took place in 2012, threats of future boycotts from some players, especially Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (who both lost on

336-413: The nine Masters level tournaments were combined ATP and WTA events. 1990–1995 ; ATP Championship Series, Single Week 1996–1999 ; ATP Super 9 2000–2003 ; Tennis Masters Series 2004–2008 ; ATP Masters Series 2009–2018 ; ATP World Tour Masters 1000 2019–present ; ATP Masters 1000 The following ranking points are as of 2024. Currently, the following nine tournaments are part of

357-624: The number of tournaments was not reduced from nine to eight and the Monte-Carlo Masters remained part of the series although, unlike the other events, it does not have a mandatory player commitment. The Hamburg Masters event was downgraded to an ATP Tour 500 event. The Madrid Masters moved to May and onto clay courts. A new tournament in Shanghai replaced the Hamburg Masters and took over Madrid's former October indoor slot. In 2011, six of

378-630: The top-9 level. In 2009, the Shanghai Masters replaced the Madrid Open , which was until then held as an indoor event, in the eighth slot of the year with the Madrid Open switched to clay courts, replacing the Hamburg Open in the spring clay court season. The Shanghai Masters was designated as an outdoor event despite the facility having a retractable roof and having been used as the indoor venue for

399-632: The tournament was classified as one of the ATP Masters Series tournaments, where it replaced the now-defunct Eurocard Open in Stuttgart . It was held from 2002 to 2008 in the Madrid Arena as the first of two Master's indoor hard court late-season events that preceded the ATP Tour Finals (also indoors). It was replaced on the Masters schedule by the Shanghai Masters after the 2008 season. In 2009,

420-453: The tournament was reborn under new ownership with a new location, new surface, and new time slot. It expanded to include a premier women's contest (replacing the tournament in Berlin ) and shifted to an earlier period of the tennis season to become the second Master's tournament of the spring European clay-court swing (replacing the Hamburg Open ). The event moved outdoors to Park Manzanares, where

441-542: The year-end ATP Finals. Up until 2007, most Masters finals were contested as best-of-five-set matches, but from 2008 all events were decided in best-of-three-set matches. As part of a shake-up of the tennis circuit in 2009, the Masters Series became the ATP Tour Masters 1000, with the addition of the number 1000 referring to the number of ranking points earned by the winner of each tournament. Contrary to earlier plans,

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