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2021 SEASON Week Start Date City Current Tournament Name Surface Draw 1 Jan 1 Brisbane, Perth, Sydney ⁶ ATP Cup H 24 Teams Jan 4 Doha ⁸ Qatar ExxonMobil Open H 28 2 Jan 11 Adelaide ¹ ˒ ⁸ Adelaide International H 28 Jan 11 Auckland ⁸ ASB Classic H 28 3 Jan 18 Melbourne Australian Open* H 128 4 5 Feb 1 Córdoba Córdoba Open CL 28 Feb 1 Montpellier Open Sud de France IH 28 Feb 1 Pune Tata Open Maharashtra H 28 6 Feb 8 Rotterdam ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament IH 32 Feb 8 Buenos Aires Argentina Open CL 28 Feb 8 New York New York Open IH 28 7 Feb 15 Rio de Janeiro Rio Open presented by Claro CL 32 Feb 15 Delray Beach Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com H 32 Feb 15 Marseille Open 13 Provence IH 28 8 Feb 22 Acapulco ⁸ Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC H 32 Feb 22 Dubai ⁸ Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships H 32 Feb 22 Santiago Chile Dove Men+Care Open CL 28 9 Mar 5 Davis Cup Qualifiers* 10 Mar 11 Indian Wells ⁵ BNP Paribas Open H 96 11 12 Mar 24 Miami ⁴ Miami Open presented by Itaú H 96 13 14 Apr 5 Houston Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship CL 28 Apr 5 Marrakech Grand Prix Hassan II CL 32 15 Apr 11 Monte-Carlo ¹ Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters CL 56 16 Apr 19 Barcelona Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell CL 48 Apr 19 Budapest Hungarian Open CL 28 17 Apr 26 Estoril Millennium Estoril Open CL 28 Apr 26 Munich BMW Open by FWU CL 28 18 May 2 Madrid ¹ Mutua Madrid Open CL 56 19 May 9 Rome ¹ Internazionali BNL d’Italia CL 56 20 May 16 Geneva ¹ ˒ ⁸ Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open CL 28 May 16 Lyon ¹ ˒ ⁸ Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon CL 28 21 May 23 Paris ¹ Roland Garros* CL 128 22 23 Jun 7 ’s-Hertogenbosch Libema Open G 28 Jun 7 Stuttgart MercedesCup G 28 24 Jun 14 Halle Noventi Open G 32 Jun 14 London Fever-Tree Championships G 32 25 Jun 20 Mallorca ¹ ˒ ⁸ Mallorca Championships G 28 Jun 21 Eastbourne ⁸ Nature Valley International G 28 26 Jun 28 London Wimbledon* G 128 27 28 Jul 12 Båstad Nordea Open CL 28 Jul 12 Newport Hall of Fame Open G 28 Davis Cup* 29 Jul 19 Kitzbühel** Generali Open CL 28 Jul 19 Umag Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag CL 28 30 Jul 26 Hamburg** Hamburg European Open CL 32 Jul 26 Atlanta Truist Atlanta Open H 28 Jul 26 Gstaad** Swiss Open Gstaad CL 28 31 Aug 2 Washington, D.C. Citi Open H 48 Aug 2 Los Cabos** ⁸ Abierto de Tenis Mifel presentado por Cinemex H 28 32 Aug 9 Toronto Rogers Cup H 56 33 Aug 15 Cincinnati ¹ Western & Southern Open H 56 34 Aug 22 Winston-Salem ¹ ˒ ⁸ Winston-Salem Open H 48 35 Aug 30 New York US Open* H 128 36 37 Davis Cup* 38 Sep 20 Metz Moselle Open IH 28 Sep 20 St. Petersburg*** St. Petersburg Open IH 28 Sep 24 Boston Laver Cup IH 2 Teams 39 Sep 27 Chengdu Chengdu Open H 28 Sep 27 Sofia Sofia Open IH 28 Sep 27 Zhuhai Huajin Securities Zhuhai Championships H 28 40 Oct 4 Beijing China Open H 32 Oct 4 Tokyo Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships H 32 41 Oct 10 Shanghai ¹ Rolex Shanghai Masters H 56 42 Oct 18 Antwerp European Open IH 28 Oct 18 Moscow VTB Kremlin Cup IH 28 Oct 18 Stockholm Stockholm Open IH 28 43 Oct 25 Basel Swiss Indoors Basel IH 32 Oct 25 Vienna Erste Bank Open IH 32 44 Nov 1 Paris Rolex Paris Masters IH 48 45 Nov 9 Milan ³ ˒ ⁸ Next Gen ATP Finals IH 8 46 Nov 14 Turin ¹ ATP Finals IH 8 47 Nov 22 Davis Cup Finals* ATP Cup ATP Masters 1000 ATP 500 ATP 250 Davis Cup 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 IH = Indoor Hard *Grand Slams and Davis Cup are not ATP events. **Dates subject to further consideration pending Olympic Games scheduling ***St Petersburg date subject to further consideration As of April 29, 2020 2020 CALENDAR 14 AUGUST 2020 (revised 21/8) DATE DAVIS CUP ATP / GRAND SLAM CHALLENGERS MEN’S ITF WORLD TENNIS TOUR** DATE 17 AUG WASHINGTON D.C. (H) CANCELLED PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CL) /125 (€) 48 Draw, 16D, 4Q For all information go to [email protected] 17 AUG TODI, Italy (CL) /100 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 24 AUG CINCINNATI (H) PRAGUE II; Czech Republic (CL) /125 (€) 48 Draw, 16D, 4Q 24 AUG ORLANDO, FL, USA CANCELLED TRIESTE, Italy (CL) /100 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 31 AUG US OPEN (H) ORLANDO II. FL USA CANCELLED 31 AUG CORDENONS, Italy (CL) /100 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (CL) /125 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 07 SEPT US OPEN AIX EN PROVENCE, France (CL) /125 (€) 32 Draw; 16D, 16Q 07 SEPT KITZBUHEL (CL) PROSTEJOV, Czech Republic (CL) /125 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q ROME QUALIES 12-14 SEPT PARMA POSTPONED 14 SEPT ROME (CL) IASI, Romania (CL) /100 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 14 SEPT ISTANBUL CANCELLED CARY POSTPONED FORLI POSTPONED 21 SEPT HAMBURG (CL) SIBIU, Romania (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw 16D, 16Q 21 SEPT RG QUALIES 21-25 SEPT COLUMBUS CANCELLED FORLI, Italy (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 28 SEPT ROLAND GARROS (CL) BIELLA, Italy (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 28 SEPT SPLIT, Croatia (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 05 OCT ROLAND GARROS PARMA, Italy (CL) /125 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 05 OCT BARCELONA, Spain (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 12 OCT ST PETERSBURG (IH) ALICANTE, Spain (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q 12 OCT LISBON, Portugal (CL) /80 (€) 32 Draw, 16D, 16Q For information on Men’s ITF World Tennis Tour calendar, please always check on http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/men's-calendar.aspx 48 Draw/16 Doubles/4 Qualifying 32 Draw/16Doubles/16 Qualifying Category Prize Money USD Prize Money Euro Category Prize Money USD Prize Money Euro Challenger 125 $ 162,480 € 137,560 Challenger 125 $ 156,240 € 132,280 Challenger 110 $ 135,400 € 114,800 Challenger 110 $ 130,200 € 110,400 Challenger 100 $ 108,320 € 92,040 Challenger 100 $ 104,160 € 88,520 Challenger 90 $ 81,240 € 69,280 Challenger 90 $ 78,120 € 66,640 Challenger 80 $ 54,160 € 46,600 Challenger 80 $ 52,080 € 44,820 .
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