Shanghai Masters (tennis)

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Shanghai Masters
Tournament information
Tour ATP World Tour
Founded 2009
Location Shanghai, China
Venue Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena
Category ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Surface Hard (Outdoor)
Draw 56S/28Q/24D
Prize money US$3,849,445
Website Official website
Current champions (2015)
Men's singles Serbia Novak Djokovic
Men's doubles South Africa Raven Klaasen
Brazil Marcelo Melo

The Shanghai Masters (also known as Shanghai Rolex Masters for sponsorship reasons) is a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, and held annually in early October at the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in the Minhang District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The Shanghai Masters is chronologically the eighth out of the nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour season, and is the only one not played in Europe or North America.[1]

Organization

Competition format

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 week-end preceding the first complete week of competition (in 2012, on Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6).[1][2]

File:Qizhong Stadium.jpg
The Qizhong Stadium at the time of the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup

The singles main draw features 56 different players (six rounds of play to 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 different 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 different teams (five rounds of play to the title for all competitors but the 8 seeded teams), including 22 direct acceptances (16 in advance, 6 on-site), and 2 wild cards.[2]

The entry deadline for direct acceptance comes twenty-one days prior to the first Monday of the tournament week for the singles main and qualiyfing draws, and fourteen days prior to the first Monday of the tournament week, with six spots reserved for on-site entries, for 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).[2]

The singles and doubles draws are set first by selecting the eight seeds in both the singles and doubles competition, according to 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.[2]

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 the no ad scoring system.[2]

Points and prize money

As an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event, the tournament distributes up to 1000 ATP Rankings points to the singles and doubles champions.[1] For the 2013 edition, a total of US$3,849,445 were shared between the singles and doubles competitors. This is a table detailing the points and prize money allocation for each round of the 2013 Shanghai Masters:[1]

Event W F SF QF R16 R32 R64 Q Q2 Q1
Singles Points 1000 600 360 180 90 45 10 25 16 0
Prize money $798,540 $391,540 $197,060 $100,205 $52,035 $27,435 $14,810 $3,415 $1,740
Doubles Points 1000 600 360 180 90 0
Prize money $247,290 $121,070 $60,730 $31,170 $16,110 $8,500

Venue

File:Tsonga Potro 2008 Tennis Masters.jpg
The Qizhong Arena main court, during the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup

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All matches are played in outdoor conditions at the Qizhong Arena, after the venue held the Tennis Masters Cup indoors from 2005 to 2008. The surface is a hard court one, specifically DecoTurf.[1][3]

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.[4][5] The site was conceived to become the largest tennis venue in Asia, with 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 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 spectactors, and a Grand Stand Court 3, with a seating capacity of 3,000 spectators.[6]

History

The Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 was established to fulfill the desire of the ATP World Tour and the Chinese Tennis Association to develop the market for tennis in China and Asia in general.[7] In 2010 following a sponsorship deal the tournament was renamed the Shanghai Rolex Masters.[8]

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.[9] In 2002 the year-end championships, then called the Tennis Masters Cup.[10][11] 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 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.[12] 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.[4][5] Over the four years spent at the Qizhong venue, 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[13] 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 the city, the equivalent of what were then the ATP Masters Series.[14] Shanghai was eventually given the October spot in the calendar, previously held by the Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid indoor hard courts event. The new Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open moved to outdoor red clay courts during 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.[13]

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 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.[15] The promotional campaign for the tournament started in early 2009, with the presentation of its slogan, "Simply The Best",[16] and the event was officially launched on May 5, 2009.[6] Expecting nearly 150,000 spectators during the tournament, the Shanghai Rolex Masters 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.[6] with Novak Djokovic the current champion

Past finals

In the singles, Novak Djokovic (winner in 2012–13, 2015) holds the record for most titles (three). In the singles, Djokovic, Andy Murray and Magnus Norman shared the records for most consecutive titles (two). Djokovic and Murray also shared the records for most finals (three). In the doubles, Leander Paes (winner in 1998, 2010, 2012) holds the record for most titles (three), and no player has collected back-to-back titles yet.

Singles

File:Novak Đoković (14948555118).jpg
Novak Djokovic holds the record for most singles titles.
Year Champion Runner-up Score
↓  ATP International Series  ↓
1996 Russia Andrei Olhovskiy The Bahamas Mark Knowles 7–6(7–5), 6–2
1997 Slovakia Ján Krošlák Russia Alexander Volkov 6–2, 7–6(7–2)
1998 United States Michael Chang Croatia Goran Ivanišević 4–6, 6–1, 6–2
1999 Sweden Magnus Norman Chile Marcelo Ríos 2–6, 6–3, 7–5
2000 Sweden Magnus Norman Netherlands Sjeng Schalken 6–4, 4–6, 6–3
2001 Germany Rainer Schüttler Switzerland Michel Kratochvil 6–3, 6–4
2002 Tennis Masters Cup
2003 Australia Mark Philippoussis Czech Republic Jiří Novák 6–2, 6–1
2004 Argentina Guillermo Cañas Germany Lars Burgsmüller 6–1, 6–0
2005

2008
Tennis Masters Cup
↓  ATP World Tour Masters 1000  ↓
2009 Russia Nikolay Davydenko Spain Rafael Nadal 7–6(7–3), 6–3
2010 United Kingdom Andy Murray Switzerland Roger Federer 6–3, 6–2
2011 United Kingdom Andy Murray Spain David Ferrer 7–5, 6–4
2012 Serbia Novak Djokovic United Kingdom Andy Murray 5–7, 7–6(13–11), 6–3
2013 Serbia Novak Djokovic Argentina Juan Martín del Potro 6–1, 3–6, 7–6(7–3)
2014 Switzerland Roger Federer France Gilles Simon 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–2)
2015 Serbia Novak Djokovic France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6–2, 6–4
File:Leander Paes at the 2008 Cincinnati Masters (crop).jpg
Leander Paes (1998, 2010, 2012) holds the record for most doubles champion, clinching three titles.

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  ATP International Series  ↓
1996 The Bahamas Mark Knowles
The Bahamas Roger Smith
United States Jim Grabb
Australia Michael Tebbutt
4–6, 6–2, 7–6
1997 Belarus Max Mirnyi
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett
Sweden Tomas Nydahl
Italy Stefano Pescosolido
7–6, 6–7, 7–5
1998 India Mahesh Bhupathi
India Leander Paes
Australia Todd Woodbridge
Australia Mark Woodforde
6–4, 6–7, 7–6
1999 Canada Sébastien Lareau
Canada Daniel Nestor
Australia Todd Woodbridge
Australia Mark Woodforde
7–5, 6–3
2000 Netherlands Paul Haarhuis
Netherlands Sjeng Schalken
Czech Republic Petr Pála
Czech Republic Pavel Vízner
6–2, 3–6, 6–4
2001 Zimbabwe Byron Black
Japan Thomas Shimada
South Africa John-Laffnie de Jager
South Africa Robbie Koenig
6–2, 3–6, 7–5
2002 Not Held
2003 Australia Wayne Arthurs
Australia Paul Hanley
China Zeng Shaoxuan
China Zhu Benqiang
6–2, 6–4
2004 United States Jared Palmer
Czech Republic Pavel Vízner
United States Rick Leach
United States Brian MacPhie
4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(13–11)
2005

2008
Tennis Masters Cup
↓  ATP World Tour Masters 1000  ↓
2009 France Julien Benneteau
France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Poland Marcin Matkowski
6–2, 6–4
2010 Austria Jürgen Melzer
India Leander Paes
Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Poland Marcin Matkowski
7–5, 4–6, [10–5]
2011 Belarus Max Mirnyi
Canada Daniel Nestor
France Michaël Llodra
Serbia Nenad Zimonjić
3-6, 6-1, [12–10]
2012 India Leander Paes
Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek
India Mahesh Bhupathi
India Rohan Bopanna
6–7(7–9), 6–3, [10–5]
2013 Croatia Ivan Dodig
Brazil Marcelo Melo
Spain David Marrero
Spain Fernando Verdasco
7–6(7–2), 6–7(6–8), [10–2]
2014 United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan
France Julien Benneteau
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2015 South Africa Raven Klaasen
Brazil Marcelo Melo
Italy Simone Bolelli
Italy Fabio Fognini
6–3, 6–3

References

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External links


Awards and achievements
Preceded by ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Tournament of the Year
20092013
Succeeded by
Indian Wells



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