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2020-Atp-Calendar.Pdf 2020 SEASON Week Start Date City Current Tournament Name Surface Draw 1 Jan 3 Brisbane, Perth, Sydney ⁶ ATP Cup H 24 Teams Jan 6 Doha ⁸ Qatar ExxonMobil Open H 28 2 Jan 13 Adelaide ⁸ Adelaide International H 28 Jan 13 Auckland ⁸ ASB Classic H 28 3 Jan 20 Melbourne H Australian 128 Open* H 128 4 5 Feb 3 Córdoba Córdoba Open CL 28 Feb 3 Montpellier Open Sud de France IH 28 Feb 3 Pune Tata Open Maharashtra H 28 6 Feb 10 Rotterdam ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament IH 32 Feb 10 Buenos Aires Argentina Open CL 28 Feb 10 New York New York Open IH 28 7 Feb 17 Rio de Janeiro Rio Open presented by Claro CL 32 Feb 17 Delray Beach Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com H 32 Feb 17 Marseille Open 13 Provence IH 28 8 Feb 24 Acapulco ⁸ Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC H 32 Feb 24 Dubai ⁸ Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships H 32 Feb 24 São Paulo Brasil Open ICL 28 9 Mar 6 Davis Cup Qualifiers* 10 Mar 12 Indian Wells ⁵ BNP Paribas Open H 96 11 12 Mar 25 Miami ⁴ Miami Open presented by Itaú H 96 13 14 Apr 6 Houston Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship CL 28 Apr 6 Marrakech Grand Prix Hassan II CL 32 15 Apr 12 Monte-Carlo ¹ Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters CL 56 16 Apr 20 Barcelona Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell CL 48 Apr 20 Budapest Hungarian Open CL 28 17 Apr 27 Estoril Millennium Estoril Open CL 28 Apr 27 Munich BMW Open by FWU CL 28 18 May 3 Madrid ¹ Mutua Madrid Open CL 56 19 May 10 Rome ¹ Internazionali BNL d’Italia CL 56 20 May 17 Geneva ¹ ˒ ⁸ Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open CL 28 May 17 Lyon ¹ ˒ ⁸ Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon CL 28 21 May 24 Paris ¹ H Roland 128 Garros* CL 128 22 23 Jun 8 ’s-Hertogenbosch Libema Open G 28 Jun 8 Stuttgart MercedesCup G 28 24 Jun 15 Halle 28. Grass Court Open Halle G 32 Jun 15 London Fever-Tree Championships G 32 25 Jun 22 Eastbourne ⁸ Nature Valley International G 28 Jun 22 Mallorca Mallorca Championships G 28 26 Jun 29 London H Wimbledon* 128 G 128 27 28 Jul 13 Hamburg Hamburg European Open CL 32 Jul 13 Båstad Swedish Open CL 28 Jul 13 Newport Hall of Fame Open G 28 Jul 17 Davis Cup Group II* 29 Jul 20 Gstaad J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad CL 28 Jul 20 Los Cabos ⁸ Abierto de Tenis Mifel presentado por Cinemex H 28 Jul 20 Umag Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag CL 28 30 Jul 25 Tokyo ⁷ Olympic Games* H 64 Jul 27 Atlanta BB&T Atlanta Open presented by First Data H 28 Jul 27 Kitzbühel ⁸ Generali Open CL 28 31 Aug 3 Washington, D.C. Citi Open H 48 32 Aug 10 Toronto Rogers Cup H 56 33 Aug 16 Cincinnati ¹ Western & Southern Open H 56 34 Aug 23 Winston-Salem ¹ ˒ ⁸ Winston-Salem Open H 48 35 Aug 31 New York H US 128 Open* H 128 36 37 Sep 18 Davis Cup Groups I and II* 38 Sep 21 Metz Moselle Open IH 28 Sep 21 St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Open IH 28 Sep 25 To be announced Laver Cup IH 2 Teams 39 Sep 28 Chengdu Chengdu Open H 28 Sep 28 Sofia Sofia Open IH 28 Sep 28 Zhuhai Huajin Securities Zhuhai Championships H 28 40 Oct 5 Beijing China Open H 32 Oct 5 Tokyo Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships H 32 41 Oct 11 Shanghai ¹ Rolex Shanghai Masters H 56 42 Oct 19 Antwerp European Open IH 28 Oct 19 Moscow VTB Kremlin Cup IH 28 Oct 19 Stockholm Intrum Stockholm Open IH 28 43 Oct 26 Basel Swiss Indoors Basel IH 32 Oct 26 Vienna Erste Bank Open IH 32 44 Nov 2 Paris Rolex Paris Masters IH 48 45 Nov 10 Milan ³ ˒ ⁸ Next Gen ATP Finals IH 8 46 Nov 15 London ¹ Nitto ATP Finals IH 8 47 Nov 23 Davis Cup Finals* ATP Cup ATP Masters 1000 ATP 500 ATP 250 Olympic Games Nitto ATP Finals Next Gen ATP Finals Laver Cup Grand Slams Davis Cup ¹ Sunday start ³ Tuesday start ⁴ Wednesday start ⁵ Thursday start ⁶ Friday start ⁷ Saturday start ⁸ Saturday final CL = Clay court G = Grass court H = Hard court ICL = Indoor Clay court IH = Indoor Hard *Grand Slams, Davis Cup and Olympics are not ATP events. As of September 18, 2019.
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