Another thing that I think would help would be to have a lower level o ATP event, perhaps an ATP 175 or ATP150 with commensurately reduced points and prize money.  This might allow having 4 events in a single week and would allow tennis to get to locations that it doesn't usually visit.  The recent innovation of giving the top seeds byes in smaller events has been a good idea as well. It allows a top player to arrive on Wednesday afternoon to play a 2nd round match on Thursday which will give them more time and less time on the road. 

Who else has ideas for spreading the points and prizes differently?

Re the points distributions, I do rather like the current ATP main draw distributions, and it was good to see the WTA move to largely copy this rather than their previous far too linear ( and sometimes backwards ! ) awards for progressions through rounds.

I do certainly agree though that there may be a case for the ATP introducing challenger qualifying points, perhaps not dissimilar to the points awarded for the women above 25Ks.

Qualifying general standard in ATP Challengers can be very variable, but maybe wouldn't be so variable if there was some reward other than for actually qualifying ( both monetary and points ).

Alex lost the 1st set 6-2 and is 1-3* down in the 2nd (Gerasimov has taken 3/3 bps and saved 2/2)

Alex then broke Gerasimov again (so probably won 4 games in a row) only to be broken back as he served for the set - into a tiebreak.

Kyle's is the last match on centre court today, not before 4.30pm GMT.

Come on Kedders you can do this!

Kyle's match has just started and Kyle held to love in the first game.

 

DB then held and broke.

1-2*

-- Edited by Jan on Monday 12th of May 2014 03:41:21 PM

Don't see there being too many long rallies in this match.