The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments (organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP Super 9, the ATP Championship Series, the ATP World Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the Davis Cup (organized by the ITF), the ATP Tour World Championships and the Grand Slam Cup (organized by the ITF).
This is the complete schedule of events on the 1996 ATP Tour, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.
No events held that month
List of players and singles titles won:
Titles won by nation:
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the organization's name. In 1990 the organization was called the ATP Tour, which was renamed in 2001 as just ATP and the tour being called ATP Tour. In 2009 the name was changed again and is now known as the ATP World Tour. It is an evolution of the tour competitions previously known as Grand Prix tennis tournaments and World Championship Tennis (WCT). The ATP's Executive Offices are in London, United Kingdom. ATP Americas is based in Ponte Vedra Beach, United States; ATP Europe is headquartered in Monaco; and ATP International, which covers Africa, Asia and Australasia, is based in Sydney, Australia.
The counterpart organization in the women's professional game is the Women's Tennis Association.
Started in 1972 by Jack Kramer, Donald Dell, and Cliff Drysdale. It was first managed by Jack Kramer, as Executive Director, and Cliff Drysdale, as President. Jack Kramer created the professional players' rankings system, which started the following year and continues to this day. From 1974 to 1989, the men's circuit was administered by a sub-committee called the Men's Tennis Council. It was made up of representatives of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the ATP, and tournament directors from around the world.
Stefan Bengt Edberg (born 19 January 1966 in Västervik, Sweden) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player (in both singles and doubles) from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He also won one season-ending championship title, the Masters Grand Prix. In addition he won four Masters Series titles and four Championship Series titles.
Edberg first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player. He won all four Grand Slam junior titles in 1983 to become the first-ever player to achieve the "Junior Grand Slam". Later that year as a professional, Edberg won his first career doubles title in Basel. Edberg accidentally caused the death of Dick Wertheim with an errant serve during the 1983 US Open.
In 1984, Edberg won his first top-level singles title in Milan. Edberg also won the tennis tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics when the sport was an exhibition event and partnered with fellow Swede Anders Järryd to reach the final of the US Open. Edberg also reached the French Open doubles final with Järryd in 1986 and consequently was World No. 1 in doubles in that year.
Andre Kirk Agassi ( /ˈɑːndreɪ ˈæɡəsi/; born April 29, 1970) is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game. Described by the BBC upon his retirement as "perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history", Agassi's performances, along with his unorthodox apparel and attitude, have seen him cited as one of the most charismatic players in the history of the game, and credited for helping revive the popularity of tennis during the 1990s.
In singles tennis, Agassi is an eight-time Grand Slam champion who competed in 15 Grand Slam finals, and an Olympic gold medalist. A multi-surface specialist, he is the first of two male players to have achieved a singles Career Golden Slam, and one of four to have achieved a singles Career Grand Slam in the Open Era (one of seven in history). He was the first male player to win all four Grand Slams on three different surfaces (hard, clay and grass), and is the last American male to win the French Open (1999) and the Australian Open (2003). Agassi also won 17 ATP Masters Series titles, the 1990 ATP Tour World Championships, and was part of a winning Davis Cup team in 1990 and 1992. He is the only male singles player in history to have won all four Grand Slam tournaments, the Olympic gold medal and the ATP Tour World Championships: a distinction dubbed as a "Career Super Slam" by Sports Illustrated.
Vincent Spadea [SPAY-dee-ya] (born July 19, 1974 in Chicago) is a former ATP Tour professional tennis player from the United States.
He reached a career high tenth position in the ATP Champions Race in April 2003, as well as a career-high ATP eighteenth ranking in February 2005. He has career prize money earnings of over $5,000,000. Spadea has ATP career singles wins over Roger Federer (1–2 record), Pete Sampras (1–4), Andre Agassi (2–4), Rafael Nadal (1–1), Andy Roddick (1–2), Patrick Rafter, Richard Krajicek, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Marat Safin, and Gustavo Kuerten. He is one of only four players in history to defeat Federer 6–0 in set, at a major event. The American twice represented his country in the Olympics (2000 Sydney/2004 Athens).
Spades was born in Chicago in 1974. His father is an Italian-American and his mother was originally from Colombia.
In 1999, he broke into the Top 20 players in the world for the first time. In 2000, had a string of injuries that dropped him drastically to a world ranking of 237 from 19. Vince set a new ATP benchmark with a 21-match losing streak in 2000, which led Associated Press to dub him "the Charlie Brown of tennis" (after the comic strip character who kept trying but failing to kick the football). He ended the streak in the 2000 Wimbledon Championships with an opening round win over 14th seed Greg Rusedski, in a five set marathon, which lasted for over six hours.
I'm drifting into deep water,
I'm starting to care for you.
You're gettin' me in deep water,
Be careful what you do.
You want a romance, but I'm seeking love.
I know I'll regret it when it ends.
I'm winding up in deep water.
Why can't we just be friends?
There's restless and there's deep water.
I'm lost between right and wrong.
My love is true as deep water.
Your love won't last as long.
Where will it lead me and where will it end?
I can't help but wish I only knew.
I'm winding up in deep water.
I'm drifting into deep water
I'm startin' to care for you
You're getting me in deep water
Be careful what you do
You wanna romance but I'm seeking love
I know I'll regret it when it ends
I'm winding off in deep water
Why can't we just be friends
It's restless in this deep water
I'm lost between right and wrong
My love is true as deep water
Your love won't last this long
Where will it lead me and where will it end
I can't help but wish I only knew
I'm winding up in deep water
There are angels singing low inside my head
Cool tango blue and samba red
I want to scratch your name upon my wall
Cause I'm drowning here beneath love's waterfall
Deep water
Deep water
Baby you're love's got a hold on me
You row my boat right out to the sea
See the woman inside the girl
Dancing on the roof of the invisible world
We are walking like the waves beside the sea
There are oceans in my eyes that you can't see
And my arms reach out for you into the dark
I feel your skin where my nails left their mark
Deep water
Deep water
Baby you're love's got a hold on me
You row my boat right out to the sea
See the woman inside the girl
Dancing on the roof of the invisible world
Souls alike
Hands alike
Baby you're love's got a hold on me
You row my boat right out to the sea
See the woman inside the girl
Dancing on the roof of the invisible world
Baby you're love's got a hold on me
You row my boat right out to the sea
See the woman inside the girl
Dancing on the roof of the invisible world
Souls alike
Hands alike
All change on the merry go line
Everybody looking, for a sign
Jumping up and down, when the switch goes on
Nobody knows where it's coming from
I'm here watching, keeping well away
I'm going to live it in my own way
No mister! Not me!
I'm staying here, where it's nice and free
In deep water
I see the captain on a distant shore
He's got a dream, he wants to make it law
He's got my number, he's got a plan
He'll try to get you, any way he can
He wants to own everything he sees
But while I'm out there, well he ain't with me
Singing...
No mister!
No way!
I got my own
Deep water
You find yourself falling down
Your hopes in the sky
But your heart like grape gum on the ground
And you try to find yourself
In the abstractions of religion
And the cruelty of everyone else
And you wake up to realize
Your standard of living somehow got stuck on survive
When you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love
You wake up to realize your only friend
Has never been yourself or anybody who cared in the end
That's when suddenly everything fades or falls away
'Cause the chains which once held us are only the
chains which we've made
When you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love, love, love
It's nothing without love
We've compromised our pride
And sacrificed out health
We have to demand more
Not of each other
But more from ourselves
"Cause when you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
When you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love, love, love
It's nothing without love
I'll kiss that away
Both of them swam from a northern blue sky
Smile on their faces they entered their doom like they knew
If their world should end they won't care about that anyway
I jade the water and I burn the fire
Nuclear chemicals making their doom like you knew
If the world should end you won't care about that anyway
Maybe thats the way you live your life but I know
Life it don't always live that way
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
But it's just the way
Maybe that's the way you live your life but I know
you live your life
Life you see it don't always live that way
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die Oh why
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
Maybe that's the way
Maybe that's the way but it don't always live that way
Now that I understand the beauty of what they've left to hand me down
When you need a place to live and no one understands you
And all you want to do
Is to cry out loud
But you don't know how
No way no one
No one understands
The hand that strikes
When just a touch of love is all the problem needed
And when you hurt someone so much that still they die loving you
And all you want to do
Is to cry out loud
But you don't know how
Jade
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
But you don't know how
'Til you try somehow
Jade
Like you don't know how
Jade
But you try somehow
Jade and then we die
We will find a way
Letting the sun go down
Maybe we'll find a way
Holding the sun
We will find a way
Letting our life go by
I tell you we'll find a way
Some get it easy
Some they got to suffer
You don't make it better
Fighting with your brother
Don't get in deep water
Double trouble's gonna drag you down
Don't get in deep water
If your sinking then they'll let you drown
Try it out my way
then you will discover
Ain't no good living
Hurting one another
Don't get in deep water
Double trouble's gonna drag you down
Don't get in deep water
If your sinking then they'll let you drown
It's a crazy world
Things are moving faster
Seems like every day
Brings a new disaster
Oh, don't get in deep water
No, don't get in deep water
Don't get in deep water
Double trouble's gonna drag you down
It's a crazy world
Things are moving faster
Seems like every day
Brings a new disaster
Oh, don't get in deep water
No, don't get in deep water
Don't get in deep water
So sad now, no way out
The bottom of despair
Hormones raging, going crazy
It there another boy who cares?
Deep water
Pulling me down
Deep water
Afraid I'll drown
I hear the gays go to San Francisco
That's so far away from here
School's a jail, at home, I've failed
A life of pain and fear
Deep water
Pulling me down
Deep water
Afraid I'll drown
Two more years now, before I get out
That's a lifetime to wait
Try to hold on, put my thick skin on
'Til I make my escape
Deep water
Pulling me down
Deep water
Afraid I'll drown
Deep water
Deep water
I'm drifting in deep water
Alone with my self-doubting, again
Try not to struggle this time
For I will weather the storm
Gotta remember (gonna remember)
Don't fight it (don't fight it)
Even if I (even if I)
Don't like it (don't like it)
Somehow, turn me around
(Somehow, turn me around)
No matter how far I drift
Deep waters (Deep waters)
Now I'm drifting into Deep Water, I'm starting to care for you.
You're getting me in Deep Water, be careful what you do.
Now You want a romance, but I'm seeking love, I know I was ready when it ends
'cause I'm winding up in Deep Water, why can't we just be friends?
Now it's restless in this Deep Water, I'm off between right and wrong.
And My love is true as Deep Water, your love won't last as long.
Now Where will it lead me, and where will it end? I can't help but wish I only knew
I'm - drifting into Deep Water
I'm starting to care for you
You're getting me in Deep Water
Be careful what you do.
You want a romance, but I'm seekin' love
I know I'll regret it when it ends
I'm - windin' up in Deep Water
Why can't we just be friends.
It's - restless in this Deep Water
I'm lost between right and wrong
My love is true as Deep Water
Your love won't last as long.
Where will it lead me and where will it end
I can't help but wish I only knew
I'm - windin' up in Deep Water
So sad now
No way out
The bottom of despair
Hormones raging
Going crazy
It there another boy who cares?
Deep water
Pulling me down
Deep water
Afraid i'll drown
I hear the gays go
To san francisco
That's so far away from here
School's a jail
At home i've failed
A life of pain and fear
Two more years now
Before I get out
That's a lifetime to wait
Try to hold on
Put my thick skin on
'til I make my escape
I think of you
As I think of myself
I look from where I stand
And see deep water below
Are you there
Or are you somewhere else
I've wondered where
Ever since then
Won't you take me back there again
I dreamt of drowning
But it never was as good as when
You took me down and under
I could have told you
The same thing yesterday
But I could not find
The words I wanted to say
You never listened to me anyway
I've wondered why
Ever since then
Won't you take me back there again
I dreamt of drowning
But it never was as good as when
You took me down and under
Won't you take me back there again
I dreamt of drowning
But it never was as good as when
You took me down and under
Why can't we go back there now
You could take my hand
And we could go back like before
Torn apart I sit and wonder and think double way to see you
Been so long since you been gone and I just wanna be near you
I'm swimmin' in the deep water and I really don't think that I ought to be
Understand I was the man you wanted to be somebody
I could be too and more for you but without you I am no one
I'm swimmin' in the deep water and I really don't think that I ought to be
If you want to help someone, if you want to save me
Come on, come on, come on, come on do it
Can you hear me beggin' you, show a man some mercy
Come on, come on, come on, come on do it
You know your fascination brought me to you
Your last inclination
I'm in deepest, deepest, deepest deep water, yeah
Deep water
You gave me understanding, you gave me all
And I need your helpin' hand
I'm in deepest, deepest, deepest deep water, yeah
Hey you, superstar - welcome to the world of lies
Deprived of human rights until you die
I'm the one who let you breathe, who let you suffocate
Now I'm your only friend, the master of your fate
When you think nobody cares, I will be there
Big Brother's watching you everytime and everywhere
[Refrain:]
The puppeteer designs your world, brings life to you
The puppeteer ever creates the truth
Are you ready for a rodeo through human tragedies?
A daily race for the ultimate headline
No remorse at humanity
Enjoy your life on sunny side, I'll bring back the rain
I can wait, my time will come, your downfall is my fame
[Refrain:]
The puppeteer designs your world, brings life to you
The puppeteer ever creates the truth
The puppeteer designs your world, brings life to you
The puppeteer ever creates the truth
Why are you here ? what do you want ?
Who has admitted you into my world ?
Don't come any closer, you're not invited
Get out of my life - just leave me alone
I'm beyond your power!
[Solo: Gerd Lücking / Oliver Lohmann / Gerd Lücking /
Oliver Lohmann]
I'm the one who makes you rise and who makes you fall
You're my puppet, nothing but daddy's little dancer
Hey you, superstar - you always belong to me, I am your
maker!
[Refrain:]
The puppeteer designs your world, brings life to you
The puppeteer ever creates the truth
The puppeteer designs your world, brings life to you
The puppeteer ever creates the truth
The puppeteer - the puppeteer ever creates your truth