ATP is the acronym used to refer to the Association of Professional Tennis Players created in the seventies, more precisely in 1972, with the aim of safeguarding and protecting the rights and interests of all male professional tennis players . The gender differentiation is valid because it does not protect the rights of women tennis players, but a year after the aforementioned ATP was created, women formalized their own, the Women's Tennis Association , which took care and takes care of doing the same but with professional tennis women around the world.
Since 1990, the ATP has been organizing the international men's tennis circuit , called and popularly known as the ATP Tour, while since this year, it has changed its name to be renamed ATP World Tour .
Its headquarters are located in the city of London in England, the division or North American headquarters is in Ponte Vedra Beach in the state of Florida, the one corresponding to Europe resides in Monaco and the one that deals with the rest of the world, including , Asia, Africa and Oceania is based in the city of Sydney in Australia.
Inaugurated and managed by two tennis players, Jack Kramer and Cliff Drysdale , who knew precisely because they had suffered firsthand some of the most important needs that their peers faced, thus deciding to overcome them, they took as a first step the creation of an official ranking for professional tennis players , which began to function immediately after the creation of the ATP and is still in force to this day.
The ATP World Tour has several categories of tournaments included in the circuit, especially the Grand Slams and the decreasing pyramid that includes the following: ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour 500, ATP World Tour 250 and the so-called Challenger events and Future, also overseeing the World Team Cup.
To date, the official ranking says that these are the ten best tennis players in the world: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Martín Del Potro, Andy Roddick, Nikolay Davydenko, Fernando Verdasco, Robin Soderling and Jo -Wilfried Tsonga .