We barely accumulated three and a half months of the season and the ATP He’s already thinking about the next one. It sounds crazy, but it’s completely true. The organizing body for world men’s tennis has published today the schedule for the 2024 seasona mandatory roadmap for all tennis fans, especially those who plan to witness one of the 63 tournaments that will take place across the globe. Next year especially, madness will take over tennis: the presence of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 it causes a real earthquake next summer, with a huge congestion of lower category tournaments, since there are fewer and fewer weeks available due to the increase in size of the Masters 1000.
Precisely the ‘premium’ ATP tournaments continue to be the great bet of the leadership of Andrea Gaudenzi. Under the supervision of the OneVision program, up to five category tournaments Masters 1000 They will be played over 12 days, with extended draws of 96 players. Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Roma y Shanghai The tournaments have been graced with this condition, occupying two weeks each of the calendar and compacting the available slots even more if possible. Thus, no new event will be added to this measure, with Monte Carlo, Canada, Cincinnati and Paris-Bercy respecting the formats of the last seasons.
As we said, summer is especially charged. Roland Garros will host the Olympic test, back in all its splendor after the experience behind closed doors in Tokyo, and will completely condition the historic summer clay court tour. The tennis test at the Games will begin on July 27th and will coincide, for the first time in recent years, with the ATP 500 de Washington, a decision likely influenced by the surfaces of both events. The American capital will welcome those players who are most reluctant to step back on clay in the summer, while Paris will be the end of a mini-tour of preparation that will only last two weeks (after Wimbledon): the first, which will concentrate up to three historic clay tournaments (Hamburg, Bastad and Gstaad) and the second and last, composed by Kitzbühel and Umag.
THE ASIAN TOUR IS BACK AND THERE ARE CHANGES IN MEXICO
Another of the great news of the 2024 calendar is the complete return of the cute asian. And it is that the circuit has not stopped in Asia since 2019, the last season before the presence of the coronavirus materialized in our lives. So, the tournament will return ATP 500 de Beijingwhich will coincide again with the Tokyo tournament as a prelude to the Masters 1000 de Shanghaiwhile the Chengdu and Zhuhai tournaments will coincide in dates with the Making Cup (The tournament that used to coincide with this event, Metz, has also been rescheduled and will take place the week after the Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy, coinciding with Stockholm). Likewise, the ATP Finals 2024 will begin on November 10, while the year will end the week after with the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga.
Finally, it is worth noting a change of location of several tournaments in the month of February. Los Cabos It will become an event prior to the Acapulco tournament, generating for the first time on the calendar a kind of Mexican ‘mini-tour’. It will coincide with the tournaments in Rio de Janeiro and Doha and will take the place of Marseilleswhich is brought forward two weeks, while the tournament of Montpellier It will be played just after the Australian Open, coinciding with the qualifying week for the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals. In short, a multitude of changes that we detail below.
