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In tennis, the Championship Masters Series is a term applied to series of tennis tournaments that are ranked below the four Majors and Year-End Championships. Nonetheless, they are the most prestigious tournaments on the ATP World Tour. The circuit began in 1970, two years after the Open Era when tennis became professional, and has undergone several name changes and slight alterations to the format, in line with overhauls of the sport by the Association of Tennis Professionals.
A number of players hold records for winning the tournaments multiple times, while other records are achieved for successive tournament wins, mini-combination victories amongst others.
Rafael Nadal has won the most singles titles overall, holding the all-time record with 27 titles. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan have won the most doubles titles of all-time with 32.
Tony Roche picked up a single title at the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships in Boston in 1970.[1]
Jimmy Connors won 17 titles between 1973 and 1984, including four in Philadelphia and two in London.
Boris Becker claimed 13 singles titles in Grand Prix Championship Series and ATP Masters Series events. He recorded his first victory in Cincinnati in 1985.
Andre Agassi collected 17 titles at Masters Series events, including six at the venue of his first triumph in Miami.
John McEnroe won 19 titles in Championship Series from 1978 to 1985.including a record 11 indoor titles (overall).
Ivan Lendl won 22 singles titles at Championship Series between 1980 and 1989, including a record 6 titles at Canada Masters.
Lleyton Hewitt has won both his Masters Series titles to date in Indian Wells, in 2002 and 2003.
Rafael Nadal has won a record 27 singles titles, which includes an unsurpassed 8 straight titles at the Monte Carlo Masters and 7 Rome Masters titles.
Tomáš Berdych was the only player other than Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal to win a Masters Series event in 2005. His victory at the Paris Masters is his only title to date.[2]
Bob and Mike Bryan, who are known collectively as the Bryan Brothers, have won a record 32 titles as a doubles team.
Players with 4 or more titles since 1970:
^ HA = Hamburg, IW = Indian Wells, MI = Miami, MC = Monte Carlo, RO = Rome, WA = Washington, TO = Tokyo, CA = Canada (Toronto/Montreal), CI = Cincinnati, LA = Los Angeles, LO = London, PH = Philadelphia, ST = Stockholm, IN = Indianapolis, LV = Las Vegas, FH = Forest Hills, BO = Boston, PA = Paris, JO = Johannesburg, SY = Sydney, ES = Essen/Stuttgart, MA = Madrid, SH = Shanghai
^ The 5th Masters Series tournament was played in Hamburg through 2008 but moved to its current location in Madrid in 2009. The 8th Masters Series tournament has had a very turbulent history. It was played in Stockholm from 1990 to 1994, Essen in 1995, Stuttgart in 1996 to 2001, and Madrid from 2002 to 2008 before moving to its current location in Shanghai in 2009.
^ The final of the 2005 Rome Masters between Spaniard Rafael Nadal and Argentine Guillermo Coria marked the longest final of the Open Era (since 1968): 5 hrs. and 14 mins, with 18-year old Nadal prevailing. The 2006 final produced another classic, 5 hrs. and 5 mins long, with Nadal defeating Federer.
^ Active players in bold. Most titles per tournament underlined.
^ To date 65 players have won precisely one Championship/Masters Series tournament.
Players with 5 or more titles since 1970:
Active players in bold. Most titles per tournament underlined
^ The 5th Masters Series tournament was played in Hamburg through 2008. Beginning in 2009, the Madrid tournament switched from indoor hard courts to clay and replaced Hamburg as the fifth tournament in the schedule.
^ The 8th Masters Series tournament has had a very turbulent history. It was played in Stockholm from 1990 to 1994, Essen in 1995, Stuttgart in 1996 to 2001, and Madrid from 2002 to 2008. In 2009, Madrid moved to a new spot in the rotation and a new tournament in Shanghai took the eighth spot.
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