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35-485: Matches in the singles and doubles main draws are played over eight days, from one Sunday to the next (in 2013, competition was held from October 6 to October 13, and this year competition will be held from October 11 to October 18). Qualifying matches for the singles main draw will be played in the weekend preceding the first complete week of competition (in 2012, on Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6). The singles main draw features 56 players (six rounds of play to

70-451: A 15,000-seats main stadium featuring a retractable roof of eight steel panels representing Shanghai's city flower, the magnolia . As of 2013, the Arena's Grand Stand Court 1 stands in fifth place in the list of tennis stadiums by capacity , alongside Beijing 's National Tennis Stadium (built for the 2008 Summer Olympics ) and Wimbledon's Centre Court . In preparation of the first edition of

105-510: Is also found in the Caribbean. Played in both singles and doubles forms by people in wheelchairs. The main difference is that the ball may bounce twice before it is hit, the second bounce may even be outside the court. All four Grand Slam tournaments include wheelchair tennis. Visually impaired tennis (also known as blind tennis in Japan, its country of origin, and as sound tennis in some parts of

140-472: Is held annually, and world rankings are published for male and female players with different degrees of disability. There is an evolution in tennis training that employs the use of low-compression balls and in some cases modified court sizes. Organizations around the world have begun to use lower compression balls and modified court sizes as a way to reach out to younger tennis players interested in tennis. The use of low-compression balls and modified court sizes

175-518: Is meant to ease the process into becoming a competitive or amateur tennis player. The low-compression balls are colored differently to indicate the level of compression. Young players and beginners are likely to find the game easier to learn because the balls do not bounce as high or travel as fast as " normal " balls. The modified smaller courts make covering the court, or reaching the opponent's shot, easier as well. Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open The Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open (known as

210-445: Is played between two people in a singles match, or two pairs in a doubles match. Tennis can also be played on different courts, including grass courts , clay courts , hard courts , and artificial grass courts. Singles involves two players competing against each other, usually two men or two women, although games between a man and a woman may be played on an informal basis or as exhibitions . The game starts with one player serving

245-739: The Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts . It was part of the International Series of the ATP Tour and was held annually in Asia. The tournament was first created in 1996 in Shanghai , China, on indoor carpet courts and as part of the ATP World Series . The second new tournament started by

280-624: The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in Asia in three years, after the Beijing Open , created in 1993, the Shanghai event ran as a men's only tournament during four years, seeing the likes of Michael Chang , Goran Ivanišević , Marcelo Ríos and Magnus Norman reaching the finals. In 2000, the Tier IV Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournaments of Beijing was moved to Shanghai, allowing

315-664: The Shanghai New International Expo Center created for the 2002 Tennis Masters Cup , a new facility, the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena , was built to host the year-end championships starting from 2005. The ATP eventually extended the three-year deal to a fourth year in 2006, allowing the Tennis Masters Cup to increase its success in Shanghai. Over the four years spent at the Qizhong venue,

350-477: The Summer Olympics on various occasions (In 1900, from 1912 until 1920 and again since 2012 ). While players are gradually less competitive in singles by their late 30s and early 40s, they can still continue competitively in doubles and mixed doubles (as instanced by Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe , who won doubles titles in their 40s). When three players are available, modified rules can accommodate

385-576: The Tennis Masters Cup . were held in the city. The success of the 2002 Tennis Masters Cup , won by World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt from Australia, prompted the ATP, which had abandoned the idea of a touring Tennis Masters Cup, to award Shanghai the right to hold the tournament from 2005 to 2007. While the ATP International Series tournament of Shanghai was held two more years in 2003 and 2004 at

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420-428: The no ad scoring system . As an ATP Tour Masters 1000 event, the tournament distributes up to 1000 ATP rankings points to the singles and doubles champions. For the 2023 edition, a total of US$ 8,800,000 will be shared between the singles and doubles competitors. These are tables detailing the points and prize money allocation for each round of the 2023 Shanghai Masters: All matches are played in outdoor conditions at

455-476: The Qizhong Arena, after the venue held the Tennis Masters Cup indoors from 2005 to 2008. The surface is hard court , specifically DecoTurf . The venue was originally built in 2004 and 2005 to host the Tennis Masters Cup, after the ATP awarded the tournament to Shanghai for a three-year contract (2005–2007), later extended to a fourth year. The site was conceived to become the largest tennis venue in Asia, with

490-583: The Shanghai Masters, the venue was expanded with several new stadiums and courts constructed by August 2009, including a Grand Stand Court 2, with a seating capacity of 5,000 spectators, and a Grand Stand Court 3, with a seating capacity of 3,000 spectators. The Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 was established to fulfill the desire of the ATP World Tour and the Chinese Tennis Association to develop

525-438: The ball from the right side of the court behind the baseline. The other player must stand behind or close to the baseline on the left side of the court. The server then hits the ball over the net into the diagonally opposite service box. The receiver must let the ball bounce before hitting it back over the net. If the receiver hits the ball before one bounce or after two bounces then is called "fault". The game continues until one of

560-427: The ball is served. Players serve for one total game and then the serve rotates to the other team. Returners must stay on the same side of the court, known as the deuce side or ads side for the duration of the set as the server continuously switches sides after each point. Mixed doubles is played the same as doubles, but with one man and one woman per team. This form of tennis is rare in the professional game because

595-504: The city to hold both the ATP event, now part of the International Series , and the WTA event. In 2004, as the ATP was increasing its presence in Asia, having brought the Tennis Masters Cup to Shanghai in 2002 , working on moving several events to different new locations, the ATP and WTA Shanghai tournaments were both relocated, with the women's, now a Tier II tournament, returning to Beijing, and

630-682: The city, the equivalent of what were then the ATP Masters Series . Shanghai was eventually given the October spot in the calendar, previously held by the Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid indoor hard courts event, but was to be held as an outdoor hard surface tournament, thereby reducing the number of indoor Masters events to one, that being the Paris Masters. The new Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open moved to outdoor red clay courts during

665-479: The course of a match, with the singles player always serving. Scoring styles vary, but one popular method is to assign a value of two points to each game, with the server taking both points by holding serve, and the doubles team each taking one if they break. This format is usually known as "American doubles" in the United Kingdom and Australia. In South Africa it is called "American singles", or cut-throat tennis. It

700-402: The doubles draw. Players and teams on the acceptance list are sorted according to their position in the computerized ATP rankings in the week preceding competition, to enter the main draws, the qualifying draw (in singles) or to be kept as alternates (in doubles). The singles and doubles draws are set first by selecting the eight seeds in both the singles and doubles competition, according to

735-571: The market for tennis in China and Asia in general. In 2010 following a sponsorship deal the tournament was renamed the Shanghai Rolex Masters. In 1996, a professional tournament was held for the first time in Shanghai , the largest city in China. The inaugural Shanghai Open was won by Russian Andrei Olhovskiy over Mark Knowles of the Bahamas . In 2002 the year-end championships, then called

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770-469: The men's and women's tours are organized separately (by the ATP and WTA , respectively). However, all four Grand Slam tournaments hold a mixed doubles competition, alongside the men's and women's doubles, featuring many of the same players. There is also an annual mixed tournament for national teams, the Hopman Cup , which includes mixed doubles matches. Additionally, there have been mixed doubles events at

805-453: The men's moving to Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam . After the 2005 edition, the tournament moved once more to a new country, in India, taking place in the city of Mumbai first, in 2006 and 2007, and then moving again to Bangalore for the 2008 edition. The first event to be held in the new location, though, was cancelled due to security fears, and the first Bangalore Open consequently postponed to

840-553: The mismatch so that the single player does not have to be significantly better than the doubles team. The only major rule variation between Canadian doubles and traditional doubles tennis is that the team of two players can only hit the ball within the singles lines, whilst the single player can hit into the full doubles court. An informal and unsanctioned form of tennis, this is played with similar rules to Canadian doubles, only in this version, players rotate court position after each game. As such, each player plays doubles and singles over

875-410: The most recent ATP rankings in the week preceding competition. After the seeds and byes are placed, the remaining players, including wild cards, qualifiers and special exempts (in singles) are placed in the rest of the draw, from top to bottom. All singles matches are played in best-of-three tie-break sets format, while the doubles matches are played in two tie-break sets and a match tie-break, and use

910-416: The net and the other near the baseline, preparing to return serve). Most of the singles rules are applicable for doubles tennis, but there are few exceptions. First and foremost, the court side is wider. The boundaries are extended from side to side to the doubles sidelines. This includes the alleys between the singles and doubles sidelines on the court. The doubles tennis court boundaries are only in play after

945-471: The players fails to hit the ball over the net or hits it outside the boundaries off the court. Doubles is played by two teams of two players each, most often all-male or all-female. It utilizes a wider court than singles matches: it includes the area in the alley (tramlines, in British terminology), whereas singles does not. The two players on the receiving side change positions after each point played (one at

980-475: The records for most consecutive titles (two victories in a row each), and most finals (four). In doubles, Marcelo Melo (winner in 2013, 2015, and 2018) holds the record for most titles (three), and no player has collected back-to-back titles yet. Source: The Tennis Base Longest final Shortest finals 31°02′28″N 121°21′18″E  /  31.041°N 121.355°E  / 31.041; 121.355 Singles (tennis) Traditionally, tennis

1015-564: The spring European clay court season. The Tennis Masters Cup became the ATP World Tour Finals and moved to the O2 arena in London, United Kingdom. Organized by Juss International Sports Event Management Company directed by Jiang Lan, the event was formally presented in a press conference on November 13, 2008, during the season's Tennis Masters Cup tournament, where the choice of the draw sizes, of

1050-469: The surface, and the building of additional courts were announced. Rolex , the Swiss watch company, was also revealed as the official sponsor of the event. The promotional campaign for the tournament started in early 2009, with the presentation of its slogan, "Simply The Best", and the event was officially launched on May 5, 2009. Expecting nearly 150,000 spectators during the tournament, the Shanghai Rolex Masters

1085-406: The title for all competitors but the 8 seeded teams), including 22 direct acceptances (16 in advance, 6 on-site), and 2 wild cards. The entry deadline for direct acceptance comes twenty-one days prior to the first Monday of the tournament week for the singles main and qualifying draws, and fourteen days prior to the first Monday of the tournament week, with six spots reserved for on-site entries, for

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1120-402: The title for all competitors but the top 8 seeds ), including 44 or 45 direct acceptances, 7 qualifiers , 4 wild cards , and 1 eventual special exempt . The singles qualifying draw features 28 players (two rounds of play to qualification for all competitors including the 14 seeds), with 24 direct acceptances, and 4 wild cards. The doubles draw, finally, features 24 teams (five rounds of play to

1155-537: The tournament saw Swiss World No. 1 Roger Federer reach three finals, losing the first in 2005 to Argentine David Nalbandian before winning the following two in 2006 and 2007 , and Novak Djokovic of Serbia taking the 2008 title. In March 2007, the ATP announced that their 2009 rebranding would also be the occasion to use the Qizhong facility and the Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup organisation to host an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in

1190-469: The world) is competed in 4 types of classification where the B1 (blind) group requires players to wear a blindfold and utilizes special balls, which make a sound upon contact with the court. It usually uses a smaller court and a lower net than standard tennis; up to three bounces may be allowed before returning the ball. While sound tennis is not part of ITF , ATP , and WTA tournaments, an international tournament

1225-458: Was introduced as the flagship of an Asian swing in the 2009 ATP World Tour calendar after the late September ATP World Tour 250 Thailand Open of Bangkok and Malaysian Open of Kuala Lumpur , and then early October ATP World Tour 500 Japan Open Tennis Championships of Tokyo and China Open of Beijing. In singles, Novak Djokovic (winner in 2012–13, 2015, and 2018) holds the record for most titles (four). Djokovic and Andy Murray share

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