ATP Releases 2024 Calendar, Including 12-Day Events at Madrid, Rome and Shanghai

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday March 23, 2023

The ATP has introduced the small print of its 2024 calendar, with a return to China within the works. Notable inclusions are 5 12-day Masters 1000 occasions, which implies that Madrid, Rome and Shanghai will be part of Indian Wells and Miami as marquee Masters 1000 occasions.

Additionally of word is the truth that the tour is actively taking bids for a 2023-2027 location for the Subsequent Gen Finals, which may doubtlessly embody the ladies sooner or later. In a current e-mail the tour left the next sentence on the finish of its assertion: “The bid course of may even present a chance to specific an curiosity for the event to turn out to be a mixed males’s and girls’s occasion over the course of the time period, in partnership with WTA.”

Under discover highlights from the lately launched e-mail from the tour.

• The second version of the United Cup, a ground-breaking combined workforce occasion to start out the season, held in partnership with the WTA and Tennis Australia.
• Rescheduling of the Abierto de Tenis Mifel (Los Cabos) from July to February, the week previous to the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC (Acapulco).
• A complete of 5 12-day ATP Masters 1000 tournaments in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome and Shanghai, following the current growth of occasions beneath OneVision.
• A revised summer season schedule, that includes the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
• Future location of the present ATP 250 event license in Banja Luka in April to be decided.
• A return to a conventional Asia Swing with the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships (Tokyo) happening alongside the China Open (Beijing) forward of the Rolex Shanghai Masters.
• Location and dates of the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals stay to be confirmed, following a soon-to-be-launched RFP course of.
• The 54th version of the Nitto ATP Finals, and fourth in Turin.

Andrea Gaudenzi, ATP Chairman: “There are few sports activities that captivate followers all yr spherical and in so many international markets like tennis. We put every thing into creating the absolute best experiences for followers as do the gamers, each on and off the court docket. From the United Cup in Australia to the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, it’s going to be one other fierce and compelling season on the ATP Tour in 2024.”