The ATP Tour 2023: More prize money, longer tournaments
The ATP Finals are always an opportunity to build anticipation for the coming season. There will be significantly more prize money and also shifts in the appointment calendar.
by Jens Huiber
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Nov 17, 2022, 04:04 pm
“Our players are world-class athletes. And it is our priority to ensure that they are rewarded accordingly. ”And so ATP boss Andrea Gaudenzi spoke, not in person, but via a press release. In fact, a new high in prize money will be reached in the coming season, with more than 18 million dollars being awarded among professional tennis players.
The increase now affects (relatively speaking) less the top level, where the athletes find a good living even under the current conditions. No, there is 75 percent more prize money to be earned on the ATP Challenger Tour in the 2023 season.
Munich competes with Barcelona and Banja Luka
Another change, probably more serious, concerns the appointment calendar. From next year, the ATP Masters 1000 tournaments in Madrid, Rome and Shanghai will be held as twelve-day events. Which has immediate implications for the smaller tournaments. Like Munich. The game has to be played there from April 17th to 24th, a week earlier than usual. That could be exciting if you know how the weather in the Bavarian capital behaves in spring. By the way, Munich competes with the traditional tournament in Barcelona and a new 250 in Banja Luka.
There were no changes to the dates for the events in Stuttgart and HalleWestfalen. The games in Hamburg will start on July 24th, the Generali Open in Kitzbühel will be a week behind compared to previous years and will start on July 31st.