The ATP Challenger tour will change its look ranging from the 2023 season and does so in type, it has been confirmed.
There shall be new classes of occasions and document prize cash to assist tennis gamers who sail exterior the High 100 to hold on their profession in a extra sustainable method.
The primary important change issues the match classes, with the cancellation of the Challenger 90 and 110, and the upkeep of the Challenger 50, 75, 100 and 125. There will even be a major enhance within the quantity of Challenger 100 and Challenger 125 occasions.
As well as, with some Masters 1000 set to develop to two0week occasions from 2023, the second week of these tournaments will see new Challengers 175. Rating factors shall be up for grabs and it will likely be open to these looking for redemption after being prematurely eradicated from the Masters 1000.
It must also be famous there shall be a substantial enhance within the prize cash. The overall pot will enhance from 13.2 million in 2022 to 21.1 million {dollars} within the 12 months subsequent 12 months, a complete of 60% greater than the earlier season. And this won’t solely concern the champions or finalists: The ATP have explicitly acknowledged that the acquire shall be elevated spherical by spherical, even for many who shall be eradicated within the first rounds.
As well as, a document variety of occasions will even be set, from 183 occasions in 2022 to 195 in 2023. The acknowledged objective shall be to more and more resemble the ATP tour within the distribution of tournaments by floor and by geographical location.
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Commenting on the adjustments, ATP President Andrea Gaudenzi mentioned: “The Challenger Tour is the Launchpad of males’s skilled tennis. At present’s announcement is a elementary step for the complete ecosystem.
“The brand new plan will increase the incomes potential for gamers and improves the steadiness of match classes, surfaces and areas, with a renewed give attention to rising the extent of tournaments. And that is just the start. Our crew is dedicated to offering additional enhancements within the coming months and years.”
Richard Glover, ATP Challenger Tour Vice President, added: “The well being of the ATP Challenger Tour is essential to the way forward for our sport, and our in-depth investigation revealed important alternatives to strengthen this path.
“Whereas we’re taking a long-term method to rising the Challenger Tour, these adjustments will present a direct enhance from 2023. We stay up for implementing these reforms subsequent season and constructing on the foundations of this progress within the close to future.”
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