RANKING RULES IN 2019

Due to the new ITF World Tour taking over from the Futures level, the ATP made modifications to the lower level of the ATP Rankings categories. The ITF also created their own ITF World Rankings with the purpose of serving as entry to Challenger level tournaments, as transition between Junior level and Professional level tennis tournaments.

• SYSTEM SPAN: 52-WEEK ROLLING SYSTEM [Tournaments counted for each player drop out of their breakdown 52 weeks after they enter the system]

• SYSTEM TYPE: CATEGORY BASED [Tournaments have different point weights according to the type of tournament a player has entered. The higher category, the more points scored]

• POINTS: ADDITIVE [Players receive points according to the round they are eliminated in. These points are added and players are ordered according to their total points]

• TOURNAMENTS: BEST 18 [Only the best 18 tournaments results can be counted.]

• MINIMUM PRIZE MONEY: $50000

BASE RULES

• The 2019 system allows players to count their best 18 results and form a point total. Players are ordered according to this total. In addition, players are allowed to count the ATP World Tour Finals as a 19th result, until the Monday after the final regular calendar tournament of the year.

• All tournaments are counted immediately after they are finished (on the upcoming Monday). Exceptions to this rule are ITF World Tour tournaments (2019 only) which are counted one week later. Once into the system, tournaments remain counted for 52 weeks.

• The rankings are published every Monday of the year. Exception to this rule are the mid-Mondays of tournaments lasting for more than one week: Grand Slams, Indian Wells and Miami tournaments.

• A commitment player is defined as a player who has finished in the Top 30 at the year end rankings of the previous season.

• All players must count all 4 Grand Slams and 8 Mandatory Masters for which they are a direct acceptance on the original acceptance list as well as their other 6 best results from all other tournaments.

• If the player is not part of the original main draw acceptance list of a mandatory event and decides to not participate before the draw is released, they may count an extra non-Mandatory event.

• In weeks in which a player does not have the mandatory 12 events, he is allowed to count extra non-Mandatory events to a total of 18.

• Once a player becomes part of the main draw of any of the 12 Mandatory events, either as a qualifier, lucky loser, direct acceptance, special exempt or wild card, that tournament counts for his rankings, so any late withdrawal will be a 0-point penalty.

COMMITMENT PLAYER RULES

• Late withdrawals from ATP World Tour 500 events shall result in a 0-point penalty. Commitment players must play 4 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments across a calendar year, one of which must be played after the US Open. Failure to do so, will result in 0-point penalties for all missing tournaments.

NON-COMMITMENT PLAYER RULES

• Late withdrawals from ATP World Tour 500 events shall result in a 0-point penalty.

TIES

• When two or more players have the same number of points, ties shall be broken with the following rules:

1. Total points from all Grand Slams, ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Mandatory tournaments and ATP World Tour Finals main draws, and if still tied, then,

2. The fewest events played (all penalties count as a played tournament), and if still tied, then

3. The total number of points from the players' best tournament, then, if needed, the second best, and so on.

ATP 1000 MASTERS EXEMPTIONS

• Rankings-wise, players are exempt from playing up to 3 ATP 1000 Masters if they fulfill any of the following:

1. Players have reached the age of 30 at January 1 of the current year.

2. Players have participated in 600 ATP level matches. (pre-2010 non-ATP level matches also count, but only ATP level matches count after 2010).

3. Players have fulfilled 12 years of service (first year of service is the first year in which a player has participated in 12 tournaments offering ranking points).

• Each of the items from the above exempts a player from an ATP 1000 Masters event. Starting with 2017, players were not allowed to skip a tournament which they had withdrawn from at the previous edition without playing any match.

ITF WORLD TOUR LEVEL

• In 2019, ITF World Tour level 25s+ tournaments have both ATP Ranking points and ITF Rankings points. Starting with 2020, no ITF World Tour tournament offers ATP Ranking points.

• ITF Rankings system allows players to count their best 14 results and form a point total. Players are ordered according to this total.

• Tournaments are counted one week later after they are finished. Exception to this rule are ATP Challenger Tour Qualifying points, which are counted immediately after the Challenger tournaments finishes.

• The rankings are published every Monday of the year. Exception to this rule are the mid-Mondays of tournaments lasting for more than one week: Grand Slams, Indian Wells and Miami tournaments.

• When two or more players have the same number of points, ties shall be broken with the following rules:

1. The fewest events played (all penalties count as a played tournament), and if still tied, then

2. The total number of points from the players' best tournament, then, if needed, the second best, and so on.

POINTS

• Players are given points according to the round they lose in and the tournament's category.

• Players reaching the second or any round of a tournament by drawing a Bye shall receive first round points if they lose in the first round they play in.

• Players who enter a tournament by means of a Wild Card shall receive 0 points in the first round they play in.

• The table below shows the point distribution for tournament category, tournament main draw and qualifying draw sizes and round. The colors in this table are the same used inside the Ranking tables from this site on ranking weeks where this system applies.

• ATP Points being applied to M25+H and below tournaments have been changed after August 5, 2019. These will appear after a / in the table.

TEMPORARY TOURNAMENTS AND RULES