ATP Event Schedule: Calendar Breakdown for Men’s Tennis Tour

My No. 1 favorite thing about tennis betting is that it’s always available. 

For the uninitiated, that’s because tennis is essentially a year-round sport. From the first days of January through the tour finals in November, professional tennis offers dozens of matches for bettors to handicap every week. 

And that’s without even considering lower-level circuits like the ITF or Challenger.

I’ve put together the following set of tournament information as a comprehensive guide to ATP, the high-level professional men’s tennis tour. Whether you’re new to following ATP or a seasoned pro looking for updated tournament info, this page should help you track the marathon men’s tour schedule.

ATP Schedule: 2025 Key Seasons & Events

Understanding the ATP Tour Schedule

The ATP, or Association of Tennis Professionals, is the highest level of professional men’s tennis. The schedule runs from the opening days of January all the way to November, encompassing dozens of tournaments and tens of millions of dollars in prize money. 

The average tournament lasts about a week, with the main singles draw starting on Monday. Players are placed in a bracket – more commonly called a draw in tennis parlance – and play through in single-elimination style. 

A winner is typically crowned that weekend, meaning most tournaments run Monday through Sunday. But larger tournaments with larger draws may last closer to 11 days. Grand Slams run for a full two weeks.

There are nine ATP 1000 events – sometimes referred to as Masters events – and four Grand Slams per year.

Because the ATP event calendar is so long, there are mini-seasons sprinkled throughout the calendar. 

The Early Hardcourt Season & The Golden Swing

Most people aren’t interested in outdoor tennis in January, which is why each season starts by taking advantage of the Aussie summer. The first Grand Slam event of the year – the Australian Open – spans the latter half of January and often competes against late-stage NFL playoff games. 

After the Australian Open, there’s a natural lull before the focus of the men’s tour turns to the Americas. 

The height of this swing through the Americas is the Sunshine Double: back-to-back major 1,000-point tournaments in California and Florida. The former is Indian Wells; the latter is the Miami Open.

Most tournaments during the first three months of the year are played on hardcourt – the most common type of court surface, especially in North America. 

However, there’s a concurrent series of South American tournaments called the Golden Swing that are played on clay courts – the preferred playing surface of many South American players. 

The Golden Swing has become a more popular destination for clay specialists who are looking for extra practice ahead of the traditional spring clay season.

Clay Season

In April, the men’s tour flips to Europe, where a heavy sequence of ATP 1000 events is played in quick succession.

Clay tennis is essentially tennis played on a dirt court. In general, it’s a slower version of tennis, where serves are more returnable and volleys stretch on for longer. It’s not unusual for clay matches to last quite a bit longer than other versions of the sport.

Spain, France, and Italy are considered cultural hubs for clay tennis, so it’s no surprise that the most prestigious tournaments of the clay season are centered in these areas. Here they are in chronological order:

• Monte-Carlo Masters
• Barcelona Open
• Madrid Open
• Italian Open

Clay season concludes with a fortnight at Roland Garros in Paris – the French Open. It’s the second Grand Slam of the year and is often one of the most publicly watched in the U.S. because of the thinning sports calendar in late May and early June. 

Grass Season

Grass season is a quirky month of tennis that immediately follows clay season. Played on fast-moving grass, the style lends itself best to big serves and athletic reactors. 

It’s the total opposite of clay tennis – long volleys can be rare, especially on the men’s side. 

Grass season has a couple of short, low-profile tournaments that are mostly concentrated in Germany or the UK. That includes the Terra Wortman Open in Halle, Germany and the Eastbourne Open on the southeast coast of England.

But these draws mainly serve as warmups for the main tennis event of the summer: Wimbledon. The London showdown is commonly viewed as the oldest and most prestigious of the four Grand Slam tournaments. 

As an added bonus for Americans, it’s almost always on during the July 4 holiday.

Personally, my favorite aspect of grass season is the Queen’s Club championships – a warmup tournament played in London ahead of Wimbledon. Every once in a while, someone wins both the Queen’s Club title and the Wimbledon title, achieving the rare London Double. 

Queen’s Club can be an excellent preview window into who’s a good bet in BetMGM’s Wimbledon betting odds market. 

Summer Break 

Once Wimbledon concludes in mid-July, a lot of players are tired. After six straight months of tennis, including multiple court shifts and three different Grand Slams, it’s vacation time for a lot of tour professionals.

There are some small tournaments here, but many of the top players choose to take this time off. After starting in January and crisscrossing the world for more than 20 weeks, you can probably understand why they’re itching for some time off. And that’s to say nothing of resting to heal injuries!

Return to the Americas

The U.S. Open is the final Grand Slam of the year, played at Flushing Meadows on Long Island in late August and September. 

Once tennis players are done with their summer break, they make their way back to the Americas, where the intensity and grandeur of the tournaments slowly ramp up ahead of Flushing Meadows.

Smaller tournaments like the Atlanta Open or DC Open eventually give way to 1,000-point events like the Cincinnati Open and the National Bank Open – what used to be known as the Canadian Open.

The Canadian Open has a particularly interesting setup – it’s a dual ATP/WTA event, but the two tours host separate events in Toronto and Montreal. This year, the men are back in Toronto. 

Asian Swing

You might think the tour is over after the final Grand Slam ends in mid-September, but remember: Professional tennis goes all the way until November! Once BetMGM closes the book on its US Open tennis odds market, there’s still many weeks of tennis betting to go. 

The fall is primarily occupied by the Asian Swing, where both tours play a long series of tournaments in major cities across China, Japan, other Asian countries looking for a sweet piece of that tennis tourism revenue. Take a look at the schedule from September on:

• Japan Open
• China Open
• Shanghai Masters
• Almaty Open

ATP Finals

The men’s tour wraps up its final weeks of the season back in Europe, mostly on indoor hardcourt. That culminates with the final 1,000-point event of the year in the Paris Masters – a hardcourt indoor tournament that brings players back to the French capital for the second time in a year.

After that, the men’s tour closes things out with the ATP Finals – a season finale that isn’t quite as big as it sounds on paper. Winning an ATP Finals is still considered less prestigious than winning a Slam, so don’t get the wrong idea. This is not a conventional league championship.

Still, the ATP Finals brings together many of the best players from a given year, which means it spawns a lot of really high-level matches. It’s a great opportunity to watch (and bet) excellent tennis.