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The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States.A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels.
Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) is an index that intends to generate a reliable and accurate rating for players' tennis skill. UTR rates all players—men, women, and children—on a single 16-point scale (with two decimal places, e.g., 11.29) that works for players globally regardless of their skill level, from beginners to top professional competitors.
The ATP and WTA rankings are updated weekly on Mondays (UTC) or at the conclusion of a two-week tournament.. As of 1 March 2022, the ATP and WTA announced that Russian and Belarusian players continue to be allowed to compete in international tennis events on Tour and at the Grand Slams.
This article lists the professional tennis players who reached the highest ranking among their compatriots during the Open Era.The rankings used are ATP rankings for men (since 23 August 1973 for singles, and 1 March 1976 for doubles) and WTA rankings for women (since 3 November 1975 for singles, and 4 September 1984 for doubles).
A player's singles ranking is calculated by summing the points received from their best 6 singles results in the last 12 months, as well as 15% of the points received for their 6 best doubles results. [7] The USTA posts summarized rankings multiple times a year, but uses a weekly standings list to determine entry into tournaments.
World number 1 ranked male tennis players is a year-by-year listing of the male tennis players who were ranked as world No. 1 by various contemporary and modern sources. . The annual source rankings from which the No. 1 players are drawn are cited for each player's name, with a summary of the most important tennis events of each year also inclu
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The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 [1] when it replaced the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) [2] as the second tier of tennis.