The Association of Professional Tennis Players (ATP) announced a change in the distribution of points in the tournament to configure the world ranking currently held by the Serbian Novak Djovovicbefore Spanish Carlos Alcaraz.
There will be more points for tennis players in all rounds, except in the case of the champion, whose scale is maintained in the Grand Slam, Masters 1000 categories (Mutua Madrid opens), ATP 500 (Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Conde de Godó Trophy) and ATP 250.
The best will continue to take 2,000, 1,000, 500 and 250, respectively. The points increase will be given from the first round to the finalist.
The runners-up will have greater rewards: 1,300 in the Grand Slam, with an increase of 100 points, 650 in the Masters 1000 (+ 50), 330 in the ATP 500 (+30) and 165 (+15) in the 250 contest.
For the semi-finalists, the increase is from the 800 of the Grand Slam to the 400 of the Masters 1000 and the 200 of the ATP 500. The ATP shakes up the distribution of points, causing a slight revolution in the weekly ranking adjustment in world. Effective immediately, as soon as the season starts this weekend, before even officially entering 2024.
“The changes are designed to optimize the distribution of points following increased events Masters 1000 with draws of 96 players (from the previous 56), as well as to offer a better balance and distribution of points after a significant increase in tournaments ATP Challenger of a higher category (175 points for the champion) offered to players from 2023.
The ATP provides more rewards for getting through the earlier stages of the ATP Tour tournaments to avoid escaping the Challengers tournaments, which suffer a slight cut. The 20 points for the second round of ‘qualy’ in the Masters 1000 are between fourth (25) and eighth (13) of a Challenger 175, the leader in this ‘Second Division’ of the circuit.
There is no change in the doubles scoring system, it maintains the distribution of previous years.
Source: La Verdad
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