The World Tennis Challenge was a three night professional exhibition tennis tournament held in the week before the Australian Open in Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Australian Open Series. The tournament was created by a consortium of past players including Jim Courier, Darren Cahill, Mark Woodforde and Roger Rasheed And Alistair (Macdonald)It had four teams of two players, a 'legend' and a current player and are paired into areas e.g. Americas or represent their countries. The current players play each other in a best of 3 match with a match tiebreaker for a 3rd set. The legends play a pro set, and the doubles if needed is a normal set with no a rules before a super tie break if needed.WTC World Tennis Challenge
The event was first held in 2009 for an initial period of 3 years.World Tennis Challenge appoints IEC in Sports 2
2009
Players and teams TeamPro PlayerLegendMark Philippoussis/Mark VerrythPat Cash Gaël Monfils/Fabrice SantoroHenri Leconte Joachim JohanssonMats Wilander/Mansour Bahrami Taylor DentJim Courier WTC World Tennis ChallengeWTC World Tennis Challenge
2010 Played between 12 and 14 January.
Players and teams TeamPro PlayerLegendBernard TomicPat Cash EuropeGilles SimonHenri Leconte InternationalsRadek ŠtěpánekPat Rafter/Mansour Bahrami AmericasRobby GinepriJohn McEnroe
Schedule Tuesday Night: Australia v Americas and International v Europe
Wednesday Night: Australia v International and Europe v Americas
Thursday Night: Australia v Europe and International v AmericasWTC World Tennis Challenge
Results Results - Tuesday 12 Jan
Men's Singles (Current)
Stepanek def. Simon 7-6 (4), 6-0 Tomic def. Ginepri 7-6 (4) 6-4
Men's Singles (Legends)
Leconte def. Bahrami 8-5 Cash def. McEnroe 8-6
Men's doubles
Stepanek/Bahrami (International) def. Simon/Leconte (Europe) 7-5 Ginepri & McEnroe (Americas) def. Tomic & Cash (Australia) 6-7 (5)
Results – Thursday 14 January
CURRENT PLAYERS Bernard Tomic (291) def. Gilles Simon (15) 6-0, 6-7 (4-7), (10-6) Radek Štěpánek (13) def. Robby Ginepri (96) 6-4, 6-0
PAST PLAYERS Pat Rafter def. John McEnroe 8-6 Pat Cash def. Henri Leconte 8-4
DOUBLES Tomic/Cash def. Simon/ Leconte 7-6 (7-5) McEnroe/Ginepri def. Stepanek/Rafter 6-3WTC World Tennis ChallengeWTC World Tennis Challenge
2011 Played between 11 and 13 January.
Players and teams TeamPro PlayerLegend Kei NishikoriPat Cash EuropeMichaël LlodraHenri Leconte InternationalsIvan LjubičićIvan Lendl AmericasJames Blake (replaced by Ryan Harrison)WTC World Tennis ChallengeJohn McEnroe
11 Jan Australasia v Americas Internationals v Europe 12 Jan Australasia v Internationals Americas v Europe 13 Jan Australasia v Europe Americas v InternationalsWTC World Tennis Challenge
2012 Played between 10 and 12 January.
Players and teams TeamPro PlayerLegend Alexandr DolgopolovPatrick Rafter EuropeMichaël LlodraHenri Leconte InternationalsStanislas WawrinkaBrad Gilbert/Mansour Bahrami AmericasTommy HaasJohn McEnroe
2017 The 2017 World Tennis Challenge ran from the 10th until the 12th of January 2017 as part of the Australian Open Series. The team names (Red, Blue and Gold) are based on the state colours of South Australia.World Tennis Challenge order of play
Players and teams TeamMen's DoublesMen's SinglesLegend's SinglesTeam Red Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan Sam Querrey Fabrice SantoroTeam Blue Daniel Nestor / Edouard Roger-Vasselin Tomas Berdych Goran IvanisevicTeam Gold John Peers / Henri Kontinen Alexandr Dolgopolov Mark Philippoussis
Champions YearTeam2009 Americas2010 2011 Americas2012 Americas
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