Andrea Gaudenzi has been re-elected because the chairman of the ATP males’s tennis tour, with the second time period operating by 2026.
The ATP introduced the news on Monday. Gaudenzi, a former skilled participant, began the job in January 2020.
Under Gaudenzi, males’s tennis launched a 50-50 profit-sharing components that resulted in a $37.5 million rise in prize cash throughout the ATP Tour and lower-tier ATP Challenger Tour in 2023.
The tour stated that represents the best one-year soar within the circuit’s historical past.
Other parts of Gaudenzi’s tenure touted within the news launch included the introduction of 12-day Masters 1000 tournaments; long-term aggregation of media rights; elevated participant pension contributions; and a 75% enhance in ATP Challenger Tour prize cash to $21.1 million this yr.
Gaudenzi desires to extend the cooperation among the many seven governing our bodies of tennis, a bunch that additionally consists of the WTA, the International Tennis Federation and the 4 Grand Slam tournaments.
The Italian received three tour-level titles and reached a career-high rating of 18th earlier than retiring as a participant in 2003. He changed Chris Kermode because the ATP’s chief.