- Source: 1974 Grand Prix (tennis)
The 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix was a professional tennis circuit administered by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) which served as a forerunner to the current Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The circuit consisted of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments and open tournaments recognised by the ILTF. The season-ending Commercial Union Assurance Masters and Davis Cup Final are included in this calendar but did not count towards the Grand Prix ranking.
Schedule
The Grand Prix circuit was scheduled from May until December so that it would not to conflict with the competing World Championship Tennis circuit which ran from January until early May.
Key
= December 1973
== May
== June
== July
== August
== September
== October
== November
== December
=Points system
The tournaments of the Grand Prix circuit were divided into five groups. Group TC consisted of the Triple Crown events—the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships, and the US Open—while the other tournaments were divided into four other groups—AA, A, B, and C—by prize money and draw size. Group AA tournaments had a minimum prize money of $100,000 while the minimum for Group A, B and C tournaments was $75,000, $50,000 and $25,000 respectively. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. No points were awarded to first-round losers, and ties were settled by the number of tournaments played. Grand Prix points were also allocated to doubles results for the first time this year and are listed in brackets in the points allocation below:
In addition a player could earn ranking points for participating in the Davis Cup team competition if the matches coincided with a Grand Prix tournament.
Standings
ATP rankings
These are the ATP rankings of the top twenty singles players at the end of the 1973 season and at the end of the 1974 season, with numbers of ranking points, points averages, numbers of tournaments played, year-end rankings in 1974, highest and lowest positions during the season and number of spots gained or lost from the first rankings to the year-end rankings.
*The official ATP year-end rankings were listed from January 17th, 1975.
List of tournament winners
The list of winners and number of Grand Prix singles titles won, sorted by number of titles (Grand Slam titles in bold):
Jimmy Connors (7) Melbourne, Wimbledon, Indianapolis, US Open, Los Angeles, London, Johannesburg
Guillermo Vilas (7) Gstaad, Hilversum, Louisville, Toronto, Tehran, Buenos Aires, Masters
Björn Borg (4) Rome, French Open, Båstad, Boston
Ilie Năstase (4) Bournemouth, Cedar Grove, Madrid, Barcelona
John Newcombe (3) Maui, Tokyo, Sydney Indoor
Jeff Borowiak (2) Charlotte, Oslo
Onny Parun (2) Jakarta, Bombay
Stan Smith (2) Nottingham, Chicago
Arthur Ashe (1) Stockholm
Ross Case (1) San Francisco
Eddie Dibbs (1) Hamburg
Jürgen Fassbender (1) Munich
Vitas Gerulaitis (1) Vienna
Brian Gottfried (1) Paris Bercy
Rod Laver (1) Bretton Woods
John Lloyd (1) Merion
Alex Metreveli (1) South Orange
Adriano Panatta (1) Florence
Raúl Ramírez (1) Columbus
Marty Riessen (1) Cincinnati
Ismail El Shafei (1) Manila
Harold Solomon (1) Washington, D.C.
Sherwood Stewart (1) Dublin
Roscoe Tanner (1) Christchurch
Balázs Taróczy (1) Kitzbühel
The following players won their first Grand Prix title in 1974:
Björn Borg Auckland
Jeff Borowiak Charlotte
Jürgen Fassbender Munich
Vitas Gerulaitis Vienna
John Lloyd Merion
Onny Parun Jakarta
Ismail El Shafei Manila
Harold Solomon Washington, D.C.
Sherwood Stewart Dublin
Balázs Taróczy Kitzbühel
See also
1974 World Championship Tennis circuit
1974 USLTA Indoor Circuit
1974 WTA Tour
Notes
References
Further reading
Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book (2nd ed.). New York: New Chapter Press. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0.
External links
Commercial Union Grand Prix tournaments
ATP – History Mens Professional Tours
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Indian Wells Masters
- Wina Terbuka
- Guillermo Vilas
- Turnamen Internasional Brisbane
- Björn Borg
- Barcelona Terbuka
- Monte-Carlo Masters
- Nico Rosberg
- Jimmy Connors
- Tímea Babos
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