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The "ATP Champions Tour" is a men's tennis tour intended for former tennis professionals, who have since retired from mainstream professional tennis touring (The ATP). The Tour brings together many of the greatest tennis players in history for nostalgic, competitive and entertaining tournaments in cities around the world. For a player to be eligible for play on this tour, he must be in the year of his 35th birthday or have been retired from the ATP World Tour for two years or more. Each player must have been either a world #1, a Grand Slam finalist, or a singles player in a winning Davis Cup team. Each event can also invite two players of its choice to take wild cards. The Tour usually consists of around 10 events around the world, with a year-ending "AEGON Masters Tennis" event held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Events are typically played over four days with eight-man fields competing against each other in a round-robin format, ensuring that all players feature in at least three matches. The players are split into two groups of four. The top player from each group contests the final, while the two players who finish second in each group play off for third and fourth places respectively. Matches are contested over the best of three sets, with the deciding set taking the form of a Champions tie-break. The Champions tie-break is an expanded version of the conventional professional tennis tie-break, whereby the winner is the first player to reach 10 points and lead by a margin of 2. Rankings points on the Tour are distributed as follows: Winner: 400 / Runner-up: 300 / 3rd place: 200 / 4th place: 150 / No. 5-6: 80 / No. 7-8: 60 points. Notable participants, in past and present, are: John McEnroe, Björn Borg, Mats Wilander, Henri Leconte, Pete Sampras, Mansour Bahrami, and Tim Henman. Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Thomas Muster, Marcelo Ríos, Goran Ivanišević, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Patrick Rafter, Ivan Lendl, Carlos Moyá, Jimmy Connors and most recently Andy Roddick have all participated. ==Participants== The following is a list of participants on the ATP Champions Tour * Mansour Bahrami * Jeremy Bates * Boris Becker * James Blake * Björn Borg * Sergi Bruguera * Omar Camporese * Pat Cash * Michael Chang * José Luis Clerc * Jimmy Connors * Albert Costa * Jim Courier * Marcos Daniel * Stefan Edberg * Younes El Aynaoui * Thomas Enqvist * Wayne Ferreira * Guy Forget * Renzo Furlan * Brad Gilbert * Justin Gimelstob * Andrés Gómez * Fernando Gonzalez * Magnus Gustafsson * Paul Haarhuis * Tim Henman * Goran Ivanišević * Anders Järryd * Yevgeny Kafelnikov * Petr Korda * Richard Krajicek * Aaron Krickstein * Magnus Larsson * Henri Leconte * Ivan Lendl * Todd Martin * Xavier Malisse * John McEnroe * Fernando Meligeni * Carlos Moyá * Thomas Muster * Yannick Noah * Mikael Pernfors * Mark Philippoussis * Cédric Pioline * Patrick Rafter * Guillaume Raoux * Marcelo Ríos * Andy Roddick * Greg Rusedski * Marat Safin * Pete Sampras * Fabrice Santoro * Flávio Saretta * Carl-Uwe Steeb * Michael Stich * Guillermo Vilas * Mats Wilander * Mariano Zabaleta 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ATP Champions Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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