Tennis-X.com Euro Series Launches New Era in Tennis

Tennis-X has announced the launch of the Euro Series, a historic breakthrough for men's tennis that links the nine men's European indoor tournaments after the US Open leading to the year-ending Masters Cup, creating a cohesive, five-week European indoor season.
 
"It takes a great amount of time and effort to bring together this number of people to offer such a sum of prize money," said Tennis-X CEO Luke Johnson. "We think the players will respond, and we're looking forward to unprecedented, exciting, groundbreaking tennis action over the course of the next five weeks."
 
Like the US Open Series, players will be competing for bonus prize money to be awarded at the end of the Euro Series, with a minimum $25.00 (USD) awarded to the first place finisher, $10.00 to second place and $5.50 to third. And the prize fund figures only go up as Tennis-X has posted a Euro Series Prize Fund Donation on the site where fans and deep-pocketed industry movers-and-shakers can contribute to the excitement and truly become part of the game.
 
Player will earn points each week in accordance with the current ATP Race points allocation table.
 
The nine events comprising the Tennis-X Euro Series are the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon (France), the BA-CA Tennis Trophy (Vienna, Austria), the Open de Maselle (Metz, France), the Kremlin Cup (Moscow, Russia), the Masters Series-Madrid (Spain), the Davidoff Swiss Indoors (Basel, Switzerland), the if...Stockholm Open (Sweden), the St. Petersburg Open (Russia), and the Masters Series-Paris (France), all leading to the season-ending Masters Cup in Houston.

"This unprecedented partnership within the sport has resulted in a huge step forward for professional tennis in Europe," said Johnson, who has never been to any of those events in Europe. "Even U.S. fans, most of whom think the tennis season ends after the US Open, can track Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi, Mardy Fish and company as they slog through Europe hoping to become the first player to hold up the yet-to-be-designed Tennis-X Euro Series trophy. We're thinking maybe a nice pewter, or a bronze, maybe something shiny in plastic."
 
The Euro Series will begin on Oct .4 with the ATP stop in Lyon and conclude with the Paris final on November 7. For more information or to check the updated standings, rules or to be part of the "Coalition of the Willing" prize fund, visit www.tennis-x.com/euroseries.php.