The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour is the global elite men’s tennis circuit, comprising almost 70 tournaments played all over the world in a season that stretches from January to November. Livetennis.com provides daily coverage of ATP tennis including tips, match analysis, rankings, results, draw previews and breaking news.

Upcoming ATP tournaments

ATP Tennis Live Streaming

Every single ATP World Tour tennis tournament is streamed live online and you can watch and bet on ATP matches live on your computer, mobile or tablet throughout the January-November season.

The biggest tournaments, like the Indian Wells Masters, will feature live streams from all courts while the smaller 250s might ‘only’ have two streamed courts but it still adds to up to an immense amount of ATP matches available to stream live online.

Bookmakers like the ones we select and recommend here are among the biggest year-round streaming providers for tennis matches, with the biggest ones offering embedded streams of ATP tennis matches on their website to customers with a funded account or a live bet on the match. The advantages of being able to watch live footage of an ATP tennis match are self-evident when it comes to in-play betting!

These streams are safe, licensed, legal and very reliable, and the coverage of ATP tennis matches is extremely comprehensive. You can watch and bet on ATP tennis matches streamed live online when you sign in or register and deposit funds in your account.

Bookmaker bet365 are offering customers the opportunity to watch a live stream of the matches alongside in-play betting.

Watch and bet on ATP tennis live at bet365 > live streaming > tennis (geo-restrictions apply; funded account required or to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours to qualify)

How to watch & bet on ATP tennis

1. Visit the bet365 website

2. Sign into your account or register for a new one

3. Select Live Streaming

4. Select ‘Tennis’ from the ‘All Sports’ drop down menu

5. Enjoy a live stream & in-play betting for ATP tennis

PLEASE NOTE: You must have a funded account or have placed a bet in the last 24 hours in order to watch tennis; geo-restrictions apply.

ATP Tournament Schedule

Men’s tennis, organized at its highest level by the ATP World Tour, has a longer and more demanding season than any other sport, with the tennis year beginning on the stroke of the calendar year in January and lasting all the way through to the ATP Finals in mid-November.

Nearly 70 different tournaments take place in locations around the world during this 11-month season, separated into different tiers. January sees the players return from their off-season for two weeks of tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and India as they warm up for the Australian Open; then the tour splits into European indoor events and the ‘Golden Swing’ of clay-court tournaments in South America before reuniting for the two biggest Masters 1000 Series of the year at Indian Wells and Miami.

April-June brings the European clay-court season, highlighted by the prestigious Barcelona Open and Masters 1000 Series events in Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome, before it comes to a climax at the French Open. Then it’s time for grass, with three weeks of pre-Wimbledon events including the Halle Open and Queen’s Club Championships before the third major of the year is played at the All England Club in the first two weeks of July.

After Wimbledon it’s on to the hard courts of the USA for the US Open Series, with the best players back in action for Masters 1000 Series events in Montreal/Toronto and Cincinnati before summer culminates in the US Open in late August-early September.

But just because the majors are over for the year doesn’t mean that ATP tennis follows suit – far from it. The focus turns to qualifying for the year-end championships, which feature the eight best players of the season, and the final stretch of the Race to London sees the best in men’s tennis battling out for the final spots in London over an Asian swing which takes in Tokyo, Beijing and the Shanghai Masters, and a European indoor run including big events in Basel, Vienna and the final Masters 1000 Series event of the year in Paris.

The eight best 21-and-under players earn their chance to compete at the Next Gen ATP Finals, while the elite eight head to London’s O2 Arena for a week of round-robin matches, with the fifth biggest title of the season – and sometimes the year-end world no. 1 ranking – on the line.

ATP Schedule 2020

The global health crisis has had a huge impact on the ATP Tour schedule, with all ATP tournaments suspended from mid-March and rankings frozen from 19 March.

All tournaments which were due to take place in the remainder of March, April, May, June and July were either cancelled or rescheduled for later in the season, including Wimbledon, which was cancelled for the first time since the Second World War.

ATP tournaments resumed on 22 August at the Western & Southern Open – relocated from Cincinnati to New York – and the US Open, which was played behind closed doors.

A four-week European clay-court season followed with a 250 tournament in Kitzbuhel, a Masters 1000 Series in Rome and a 500 in Hamburg, followed immediately by the French Open, which took place from 27 September-11 October with limited spectator capacity allowed. One final ATP 250 event takes place on clay after the French Open in Sardinia, Italy.

A European indoor season follows. ATP 500 events in St Petersburg and Vienna coexist with 250s in Cologne, Antwerp and Nur-Sultan before the Rolex Paris Masters and Sofia Open bring the season to a close. The Nitto ATP Finals will be played behind closed doors at London’s O2 Arena from 15-22 November, with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem having already qualified for the season-ending championships.

The ATP have also announced a revised rankings system: A player’s ATP Tour ranking will be based on their results from March 2019-December 2020, a 22-month period, to avoid penalising players who are unable or willing to play for the remainder of the 2020 season.

ATP Tournaments

Since its inception in 1972, the ATP has categorized the tournaments that comprise it in various different ways as men’s tennis has grown ever more global, lucrative and popular, before settling on the current system in 2009.

ATP World Tour tournaments, of which there are almost 70 played over 11 months of the year all around the world, are organized into three main categories depending on the prize money and ranking points on offer: ATP Masters 100 Series events, 500 tournaments and 250s.

The four Grand Slams, while they feature the same cast of players and seed competitors according to ATP rankings (apart from Wimbledon, which adjusts ATP rankings for grass-court performance according to their own formula), are not technically part of the ATP World Tour but are owned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). However, the Grand Slams do award ATP ranking points (2,000 to the champion). The ITF is also responsible for Davis Cup and Olympic tennis. While these are not ATP World Tour events, they are included in the ATP calendar.

ATP Masters 1000 Series

The nine ATP Masters 1000 Series events are the highest tier of competition outside the four Grand Slams and the ATP Finals, and the most significant category of tournaments on the ATP World Tour calendar.

The nine Masters 1000 Series events are, in calendar order: the BNP Paribas Open/Indian Wells; Miami Open; Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters; Madrid Open; Internazionali BNL d’Italia/Rome Masters; Canada Masters/Rogers Cup; Western & Southern Open/Cincinnati Masters; Shanghai Rolex Masters and BNP Paribas Masters/Paris Masters.

Indian Wells, Miami, the Canada Masters, Cincinnati and Shanghai are all played on outdoor hard courts; Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome are played on outdoor clay, and Paris is played on indoor hard courts. There is no Masters 1000 Series event played on grass.

Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome, the Rogers Cup and Cincinnati are all combined events featuring either a WTA Premier Mandatory event or WTA Premier-5 event played alongside the men’s Masters 1000 Series.

Offering 1,000 ranking points to the winner and 600 to the runner-up, the Masters 1000 Series events are mandatory for all players who qualify by virtue of rankings with severe sanctions levelled against players who fail to turn up without good medical reason (although this is a rare eventuality given that players design their schedules around these events!).

Players are excepted from mandatory Masters 1000 Series attendance if they have won over 600 matches, have been a pro in good standing for 12 years and are over 30.

Of the nine Masters 1000 Series events on the calendar, Monte Carlo, Madrid, Rome, Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati and Shanghai feature 56-player draws and Paris a 48-player draw. Indian Wells and Miami feature 96-player draws. In a 56-player or 48-player draw, the top 16 seeds receive byes into the second round. In a 96-player draw, the top 32 seeds receive byes into the second round.

Since the inception of the current Masters 1000 Series in 2009, these events have been dominated by the ‘Big Four’ of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Only a handful of other players have managed to claim Masters 1000 Series titles in this time, including Juan Martin del Potro, Stan Wawrinka, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, Alexander Zverev, John Isner, Karen Khachanov, Dominic Thiem, Fabio Fognini and Daniil Medvedev.

This shows just how tough these events are to win – but with prize money of between €973,580 and $1,340,860 on offer to the champion, plus 1,000 ranking points, there’s all the incentive in the world to give it your all.

ATP 500 Tournaments

ATP 250 Tournaments