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The Atlanta Open was a professional men's tennis tournament that was played in the Atlanta area in the United States from 2010 to 2024, usually during July or August. The tournament was played on outdoor hard courts as part of the USTA 's US Open Series , the seven-week summer season lead-up to the U.S. Open .
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States.A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels.
The USTA Tennis on Campus National Championship is the pinnacle major tournament hosted in April. [ 3 ] [ 14 ] A pool of 64 schools throughout the nation which were the champions or runners-up of their Sectional Championship or the Fall/Spring Invitational earn automatic bids to Nationals. [ 7 ]
Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) is an index that intends to generate a reliable and accurate rating for players' tennis skill. UTR rates all players—men, women, and children—on a single 16-point scale (with two decimal places, e.g., 11.29) that works for players globally regardless of their skill level, from beginners to top professional competitors.
American James Blake takes out No. 2 seed – and one of the candidates to win the title – Rafael Nadal of Spain. James Blake declared the player of the day for the 2nd time in the tournament. Day 7 Tenth seed Venus Williams beats her little sister and 2005 Australian Open champion Serena Williams to reach the quarter-finals, (7-6, 6–2).
The USTA separates their junior tournaments into 7 levels, with the highest leveled tournaments being Level 1, and then descending in ranking points available and prestige until Level 7. Level 1 and Level 2 tournaments are exclusively run at the national level (some notable tournaments include the USTA National Championships , which funnels ...
It originally controlled all of the tennis clubs west of the Alleghenies Mountains, and had great influence over the USTA at national meetings. When the USTA Midwest proposed a national clay court championship in 1910, the USTA agreed without dissent. In the 1920s, tennis became very popular in America and they started to train junior players.