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The ATP Executive Chairman and President Chris Kermode is a guest on this week’s Tennis Podcast, which is produced in association with the Telegraph.
Chris Kermode, the ATP World Tour's Executive Chairman and President is prepared to get tough with Andy Murray if the Scot follows through his promise to not play the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in order to lead Great Britain in the Davis Cup final.
On the day that the Aegon Championships launches its new Priority Ticket Membership (at 10am), the British No.1 Andy Murray and the tournament’s defending champion Grigor Dimitrov have both committed to return to The Queen’s Club in London, 15-21 June.
Following the disappointment of 17,500 paying fans when the climax of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals was curtailed on Sunday by Roger Federer’s injured back, tournament organizers have announced there will be a 60% ticket refund.
Chris Kermode, the ATP World Tour’s executive chairman and president, is the man who developed the Barclay’s sponsored Tour Finals into one of the most successful and lucrative events in the history of men’s tennis, but he will not look back on the 2014 edition with great fondness.
The new International Premier Tennis League moves closer by the day and its’ critics grow ever more agitated that the already too short off season will effectively be made even shorter. However Chris Kermode, the ATP World Tour’s executive chairman and president, doesn’t put it top of his current concerns, and said: “It's just very light entertainment.”
Stephen Farrow has been appointed Tournament Director of the Aegon Championships with Ross Hutchins joining the ATP as their Vice President of Player Relations. Farrow, the Managing Director of the Aegon Championships since December 2013, worked closely with the ATP’s Executive Chairman and President Chris Kermode during his time at the tournament, and alongside Hutchins this year.
It's still eight months down the track, but the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals has already lined up a ticket sales deal for what is expected to be another sold-out week of elite play in London in November.
British tennis player Ross Hutchins has been appointed the new Tournament Director of the Aegon Championships, the annual grass court tournament at The Queen’s Club in London.
Chris Kermode’s appointment as the ATP World Tour’s Executive Chairman and President has left a vacancy as Tournament Director of the Aegon Championships, the London grass court event that is long established in the Wimbledon build up and next year elevates to a 500 series.
With a successful run of February events in South America concluded, the ATP has its eyes on possible expansion in the region, where the bottom line is looking more than positive after decades of tennis famine.
The ATP has announced the Tournaments of the Year in the 2013 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon, with repeat winners the Shanghai and Dubai joined by newcomer Queen’s as the most favored ATP World Tour events in their respective tournament categories.
The Aegon Championships has been voted ATP 250 Tournament of the Year by the players of the ATP World Tour in the 2013 awards.
The ATP has released the 2015 ATP World Tour calendar following meetings with its ATP Board of Directors in London last week.
Just a week ago the ATP World Tour’s new executive chairman Chris Kermode made his first speech to the players, directors and other leading officials of men’s tennis. Now he is demanding the Australian Open provide clearer guidance about when severe heat will stop play at Melbourne Park.
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