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The Sydney 2009 World Masters Games, the seventh edition of a four–yearly event that has developed into the world’s largest multi-sport event in terms of participation, [1] was held from 10 October to 18 October 2009 in Sydney, the largest city in Australia and the capital city of New South Wales.
The World Masters Games [1] is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind. [2] Governed by the International Masters Games Association (IMGA), [ 3 ] the World Masters Games is open to sports people of all abilities and most ages – the minimum age ...
Up until 2007, most Masters finals were contested as best-of-five-set matches, but from 2008 all events were decided in best-of-three-set matches. As part of a shake-up of the tennis circuit in 2009, the Masters Series became the ATP Tour Masters 1000, with the addition of the number 1000 referring to the number of ranking points earned by the ...
In tennis, the ATP Masters events, currently known as ATP Tour Masters 1000 series, are an annual series of nine top-level tournaments featuring the elite men's players on the ATP Tour since 1990. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Masters tournaments along with the Grand Slam tournaments and the year-end championships make up the most coveted titles on the ...
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the ATP. The 2009 ATP World Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the ATP World Team Championship, the Davis Cup ...
The WMA is the global governing body of the sport of athletics for athletes 35 years of age or older, setting rules for masters athletics competition. [ 5 ] In addition to a full range of track and field events, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] non-stadia events included 8K Cross Country , 10K Race Walk (women), 20K Race Walk (men), and Marathon .
Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram in the final, 7–6 (7–5), 6–3 to win the doubles tennis title at the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals. It was their third Tour Finals title. Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round-robin stage.
Nikolay Davydenko defeated Juan Martín del Potro in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals. Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the round-robin stage. Fernando Verdasco and Robin Söderling made their debuts at the event.