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Topic: 2001 Tennis Masters Cup

	Tennis Masters Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After reaching the semifinals at Shanghai in 2002, he won consecutive titles at Houston in 2003-04, before his 14-match Masters Cup winning streak was ended in last year’s Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai final by David Nalbandian.
		The American was the first debutant to reach a year-end final since Sebastian Grosjean was runner-up to Lleyton Hewitt at the 2001 Tennis Masters Cup Sydney.
		To finish off the season by winning the Masters Cup is really, for me. It's obviously the perfect ending to an incredible season.
	www.masters-cup.com /1/news/stories/final_notes.asp (1374 words)

	Tennis Tournaments - Australian Open, French Open, US Open, Wimbledon, Hopman Cup, Masters Cup, Davis Cup, Fed Cup, ...
		The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held from the middle of May to the beginning of June in Paris, France, and is the second of the world's Grand Slam tournaments.
		Unlike other major international team tennis tournaments like the Davis Cup and the Fed Cup, which are strictly for men or women only, the Hopman Cup is a mixed competition where male and female players team up together on combined teams.
		The Fed Cup (until 1995 Federation Cup) is the most important tennis tournament for female national teams, very similar to the men's Davis Cup.
	www.basictennis.com /tournaments.html (1153 words)

	TENNIS MASTERS CUP HISTORY
		From 1970-1989, the season-ending championship tournament was known as the Masters.
		The first Masters in Tokyo in 1970 was played under a strict, round-robin format with a six-man field.
		On December 9, 1999, the International Tennis Federation, ATP Tour and Grand Slam Committee announced that the ATP Tour World Championship and Grand Slam Cup would be discontinued and a new jointly owned season-ending tournament, called the Tennis Masters Cup, would begin in 2000.
	www.canoe.ca /StatsTEN/BC-TEN-LGNS-ATPHIST-R.html (657 words)

	SportPlanet - A Member of The GameSpy Network
		The lone exception to this trend to date is Virtua Tennis, a relative newcomer compared to Pong, but it had a big impact as far as making the Dreamcast an attractive gaming platform.
		Tennis Masters Series contains a collection of features that will be attractive to any tennis fan.
		Tennis Properties Ltd decided to go to extraordinary lengths to emphasize realistic tennis play.
	www.sportplanet.com /features/reviews/tennismasters (808 words)

	Musco Lighting - Tennis Masters Cup: Shanghai, China
		The Tennis Masters Cup is an international competition, in which competitors vied for a share of the $3.7 million purse in the third annual men’s professional tennis season finale.
		The Tennis Masters cup was the biggest international event ever held in Shanghai.
		The lighting for the Tennis Masters Cup required Musco to design the lighting positions and aiming logic to minimize glare for the players’ vision as well as to the camera locations, a specialty Musco has developed through extensive experience with many professional teams and leagues.
	www.musco.com /newsev/tennismast2.html (402 words)

	2004 Tennis Master's Series News
		If betting were not frowned upon by the governors of tennis, it would have been wise to have put a little money on Roger Federer as the Masters Cup began.
		From the mathematical wilderness that is the round robin phase of the Masters Cup, two men have emerged as semi-finalists.
		It is the Masters Cup, the last great hurrah for the ATP before the season draws to a close.
	www.tennislifemagazine.com /news-updates/04-Masters/04-masters-main.html (396 words)

	China's tennis fans await Masters Cup in Shanghai
		The arrival of the Tennis Masters Cup, the culminating end-of-season men's tennis event, is expected to further fuel the development of tennis in China, where the sport has been attracting growing public enthusiasm in recent years, said an official with the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
		Prospects for junior tennis development following the tournament, enthusiasm among local residents for top-class tennis events, the city's remarkable facilities as well as its experience in hosting such events are the major factors that helped Shanghai win the bid, he said.
		The 2004 Tennis Masters Cup is to be held for the second year in the United States in Houston.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-06/04/content_336450.htm (487 words)

	ipedia.com: Roger Federer Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roger Federer (born August 8, 1981 in Basel, Switzerland) is a professional Swiss tennis player.
		In 2001, he advanced to the quarterfinals at both the French Open and Wimbledon.
		En route to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, Federer beat Pete Sampras in the fourth round, ending Sampras's record of 31 consecutive wins at Wimbledon.
	www.ipedia.com /roger_federer.html (290 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hewitt tops Grosjean to take Masters Cup title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SYDNEY, Australia — Lleyton Hewitt has a plan to mark his No. 1 ranking and Masters Cup title: a celebratory drink before settling down to concentrate on the Davis Cup final.
		On Sunday, Hewitt defeated Grosjean 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in the season finale, winning the $3.7 million Masters Cup for his sixth title of the year.
		Hewitt went into the Masters Cup trailing Kuerten, the defending champion, by 48 points in the Champions Race.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/tennis/stories2/2001-11-18-sydney.htm (648 words)

	Roger Federer-James Blake Masters Cup Notes
		Sweden’s Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi of Belarus captured the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup title with a 6-2, 6-4 victory in 78 minutes over Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor at the Qi Zhong Stadium in Shanghai on Sunday.
		Bjorkman and Mirnyi were contesting their second Tennis Masters Cup as a team, having lost all three round robin matches in Shanghai in 2005.
		The pair were also semifinalists at the Tennis Masters Cup Houston in 2003 and 2004, but lost all three round-robin matches at the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai.
	www.tennis-x.com /story/2006-11-19/h.php (1973 words)

	ESPN.com - Masters Cup to return to United States
		The Masters Cup is contested each November by the world's top eight players and is co-owned by the ATP, the Grand Slams and the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
		In 2000, it was renamed the Masters Cup and Brazil's Gustavo Kuerten won it in Lisbon, while Lleyton Hewitt blasted through the draw to win the 2001 event staged in Sydney.
		President of the ITF Francesco Ricci Bitti said: "The Masters Cup has been a great success in the major cities in which it has been held.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1402731&type=news (409 words)

	WebWire \| Sony Ericsson Sponsors Tennis Masters Cup
		The Tennis Masters Cup is the culmination of the men’s professional tennis year where the top eight players, and the world’s best doubles teams, battle it out to be the best of the best.
		The Tennis Masters Cup, co-owned by the ATP, ITF and Grand Slams, is the culminating event of the men’s professional tennis circuit.
		The Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai is held at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center, which boasts a 15,000-seat Centre Court Stadium with an eight-piece magnolia-shaped retractable roof, 16 outdoor courts and six indoor courts.
	www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=20007 (862 words)

	ESPN.com: TENNIS - Masters Cup History
		The 2001 event, which rotates cities, will be on the Olympic court in Sydney, Australia, which is a Rebound Ace surface.
		On Dec. 9, 1999, the International Tennis Federation, ATP Tour and Grand Slam Committee announced that the ATP Tour World Championship and Grand Slam Cup would be discontinued and a new jointly owned season-ending tournament, called the Tennis Masters Cup, would begin in 2000.
		The first two Masters, in Tokyo in 1970 and Paris in 1971, were played under a strict, round-robin format with a six-man field.
	espn.go.com /tennis/s/mastershistory.html (673 words)

	Tennis Masters Cup Final Notes - Blake v. Federer
		Roger Federer is attempting to win his third Tennis Masters Cup title in four years, having lost year’s final to David Nalbandian following victories at Houston in 2003-04.
		Roger Federer, who became the first professional tennis player ever to earn $7 million prize money in a single season after his round-robin defeat of Andy Roddick on Tuesday, will set another new record surpassing $8 million if he goes on to win the Tennis Masters Cup title.
		The pair were semifinalists at the Tennis Masters Cup Houston in 2003 and 2004, but lost all three round-robin matches at the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai.
	www.tennis-x.com /story/2006-11-18/h.php (2655 words)

	IGN: Tennis Masters Series Review
		With the exception of shudder Extreme Tennis, Gremlin Interactive's forgettable Actua Tennis, and a few titles in the early 90s from Accolade and Infogrames, we here in PC land haven't seen a tennis game in years.
		Although this is to be expected, this is a nice addition after playing way too many tennis games on the PC back in the day where you only had one basic shot.
		All in all, Tennis Masters Series is a frustrating tennis sim that has its share of entertaining moments.
	pc.ign.com /articles/166/166721p1.html (1242 words)

	The Tennis Channel::Pittsburgh
		Tennis tv from tennis tournaments and tennis players scores to tennis news and more.
		The Tennis Channel is dedicated to all things tennis - live tennis channel tournaments and schedules and more.
		The Tennis Channel is the world's only 24-hour tennis TV network, and home to all your tennis needs.
	www.thetennischannel.com /Pittsburgh (256 words)

	ITF Tennis - Wheelchair Tennis - Introduction
		As the richest and most prestigious event on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour, the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters invites the top eight men and women based on the ranking after the US Open at the end of the year.
		The round robin format aking to the ATP Masters Cup and WTA Championships, guarantees a player must face at least four of the top eight players in the world to gain the title.
		The NEC Masters was initiated in 1994 to honour the top players who have shown dedication and professionalism to the sport.
	www.itftennis.com /wheelchair/tournaments/necwheelchairtennismasters (258 words)

	Tennis Masters Cup - Steve Furgal's International Tennis Tours ~ Experience a Tennis Trip of a Lifetime!
		Following the huge success of the Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai 2002, China’s largest city has won the right to stage the season finale from 2005-2008.
		Tennis Masters Cup, the culminating event of the men's professional tournament season, will return to Shanghai and will be staged at the new state-of-the-art Qi Zhong (pronounced Chi-Jong) Tennis Center.
		The tennis facility, which will become Asia's biggest, has been built on 80 acres in the Minghang district, 27 kilometers southwest of the city.
	www.tours4tennis.com /tmc/tmc.shtml (291 words)

	CNNSI.com - Tennis - Hewitt caps ATP season with Masters Cup title - Wednesday December 05, 2001 11:02 AM
		But unlike Kuerten, who seized the 2000 year-end No. 1 ranking by winning the Masters Cup at Portugal with a win against Andre Agassi in the final, Hewitt already had assured the top-ranking before the semis when he beat compatriot Patrick Rafter.
		Agassi was No. 3 with 704 points and Yevgeny Kafelnikov moved into No. 4 by reaching the Masters Cup semifinals, where he lost to Grosjean.
		He's 6-0 in Davis Cup ties in 2001, including an upset win over Kuerten in Brazil in the quarterfinals.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /tennis/news/2001/11/17/masterscup_sunday_ap (872 words)

	Center for Sports Parenting - Expert Panel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Doyle is a graduate of Bates College and holds a Masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and an honorary doctorate degree from Bridgewater (MA) State College.
		She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati, a Master's degree in child development from the University of Pittsburgh, and a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University.
		Moore did her master's and doctoral research on sibling relationships, specifically sibling conflict, and the role of birth order and parent intervention.
	www.sportsparenting.org /csp/csp_xpanel.cfm (10638 words)

	Junior Spotlight of the Week: Alex Kuznetsov
		Fifteen-year-old Alex Kuznetsov posted excellent results recently while competing in the 25th Gerdau Tennis Cup in Brazil, finishing runner-up in the singles event and advancing to the semifinals in doubles.
		Finished runner-up in singles and was a doubles semifinalist (with Vahid Mirzadeh) at the 25th Gerdau Tennis Cup in Brazil.
		Represented the United States at the World Junior Tennis final, the Davis Cup equivalent for boysâ 14-and-under, held in the Czech Republicâ¦ Team USA finished in sixth place.
	www.usta.com /news/printstory.sps?inewsid=29373 (817 words)

	News
		The Monte-Carlo numbers track closely with those posted by the Pacific Life Open, the first Tennis Masters Series event of 2002 which registered more than 194 million Page Impressions from March 11-17, a boost from 20 million in 2001.
		Next stops on the Web: www.Masters-Series.com/Roma www.Masters-Series.com/Hamburg, as the next two Masters Series tournaments are held from May 6-12 in Italy and May 13-19 in Germany.
		The ATP, the governing body of the men’s professional tennis circuit, produces eight of the nine Tennis Masters Series web sites, six ATP International Series tournament web sites and the site for the year-end finale Tennis Masters Cup, www.Masters-Cup.com.
	www.masters-series.com /montecarlo/news/pressrelease.asp (424 words)

	Tennis Masters Cup Tickets : Tennis Masters Cup Tickets @ BuySellTix
		Played annually at the end of each year, Tennis Masters Cup tickets bring together the top eight players in the men's tennis world rankings, as ranked by the ATP Race system.
		To progress to the Tennis Masters Cup semi-finals players must be one of the top two players in each group.
		Roger Federer won the Tennis Masters Cup in 2004 and 2005.
	www.buyselltix.com /tennis/tennisMastersCup.php (330 words)

	Tennis : Details of Indian Tennis Players
		It is the ITF's objective to promote and develop the game of tennis to make it a truly global sport available to all in a non-racial, non-political form and to preserve the integrity and independence of tennis as a sport.
		In 2001, Paes and Bhupathi received India's highest honor, the "Padma Shri", which goes to Indian citizens in recognition of their distinguished service to nation.
		Sania Mirza is not merely India's new youth icon; she is a rising star in world tennis, raking in accolades and awards and showing all signs of a brilliant future ahead.
	www.whereincity.com /tennis (431 words)

	The Hindu : It's a great feeling to qualify for Masters Cup: Hewitt
		SYDNEY, NOV.11 Lleyton Hewitt, the hottest young player on the men's tennis circuit this year, is within striking distance of Gustavo Kuerten, the Brazilian who ended 2000 as the No.1 player, on the eve of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup which begins here on Monday.
		Winner of the 2001 U.S.Open, Hewitt also captured four ATP Tour titles this season and he would certainly fancy his chances of winning the last big event of the year to top off what has been a dream season with the No.1 ranking.
		I feel confident playing in Australia and it really would be a huge way to finish if I could do really well in the Masters Cup and then win the Davis Cup, it would top off a great year, that's for sure.
	www.hindu.com /2001/11/12/stories/07121028.htm (1429 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Federer closes to third tennis Masters Cup title in four years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roger Federer is attempting to win his third Tennis Masters Cup title in four years, following victories in Houston in 2003-04.
		Federer, who became the first professional tennis player ever to earn $7 million prize money in a single season after his round-robin defeat of Andy Roddick on Tuesday, will surpass $8 million if he goes on to win the Tennis Masters Cup title.
		Blake was the last player to qualify for the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup field.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200611/19/eng20061119_323130.html (255 words)

	Tennis Radio Network - The Sound of Tennis, providing radio stations with audio and grabs from tennis tournaments ...
		The Tennis Radio Network (TRN) was set up in 1998 by four of the world’s leading tennis journalists who have worked extensively in radio: Chris Bowers, Richard Evans, Craig Gabriel and David Mercer.
		Outside tennis he is a passionate believer in the importance of environmental protection, and he does some work for environmental organisations.
		He has been reporting on Grand Slam tennis since the early 1960s, and has been on both sides of the fence in tennis, working for the ATP in various capacities, and writing for Tennis Week, the Sunday Times of London, and various other publications.
	soundoftennis.net /about.shtml (1472 words)

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