U.S. Pro Tennis Championships
The ATP tournament from Boston ( officially the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships ) is a former American men's tennis tournament, which was played in Boston, Massachusetts. Record winner in the Open Era is Björn Borg with three titles, in a double Andrés Gómez won the tournament three times, making it a double record winner. Prior to 1968, Pancho Gonzales won the tournament eight times since the tournament was not yet discharged into Boston.
History
The first edition took place in 1927, then still in Manhattan. Even after a year moved the tournament to Forest Hills, the former host of the U.S. Open. After 1932, the tournament changed hands several times locations and was played in various clubs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and West Virginia, before it found his home after the Second World War in Forest Hills. From 1952 to 1962, the tournament was held in various locations in Cleveland, before - after a year intermezzo in Forest Hills - from 1964 found its final location in the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston.
The tournament was a professional tournament before 1968 and was among these one of the most respected; together with the Wembley Championship in London and the French Pro Championships in Paris, it was one of the three " professional Grand Slam tournaments," the Professional World Singles tournaments. After 1968, in the Open Era, the tournament lost of course this status, but was part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour, the precursor of the ATP World Tour. Within this tour, it was from 1970 to 1977 part of the Grand Prix Championship Series, comparable to today's ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Series. In the years 1990 to 1995, the tournament was then only a Exhibition event. In the 1997 season, the tournament was part of the ATP Tour again, but it was finally set after only three sweeps.
The lining changed very often in the history of the tournament, first decide was played on grass, then depending on the venue on sand or grass. When the tournament was held in Cleveland, they played on indoor hard courts in Boston then first again on turf. In the Open Era to the beginning then played several years on hard court, before they changed together with the U.S. Open on Har -Tru clay courts in 1974. While moving at the U.S. Open after three years on hard court tournament in Boston retained his clay court surface. Only in 1992 it was decided also to play on hard courts, it was left up to the attitude of the tournament in 1999.