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Background - Nasdaq 100 Open
Each of the top 78 men has committed to play in the 21st annual NASDAQ that begins March 23 on Key Biscayne. The 2005 men's acceptance list is a ‘Who's Who' of men's tennis: Andy Roddick (defending champion); Andre Agassi (six-time champion); Roger Federer (The No. 1 player in the world); Marat Safin (the man that beat Federer Down Under); Lleyton Hewitt (No. 2 player in the world); Guillermo Coria (2004 NASDAQ finalist); Carlos Moya (Led Spain to a Davis Cup title); Nicolas Massu (Olympic Gold Medalist); Vince Spadea (local favorite, No. 19 player in the world).
The dream of an international tennis tournament in Miami began three decades ago, when top tennis players such as Jack Kramer, Frank Sedgman, Pancho Gonzalez, Pancho Segura and Butch Buchholz toured the country in a station wagon, playing tennis in darkened arenas and fairgrounds. It was before the days of Open tennis, and they traveled with a portable canvas court and plenty of hopes. Buchholz - an original member of the "Handsome Eight" (the first recognized pros of Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis Circuit introduced in 1968) - competed until he was forced to retire from tennis in 1970 with chronic tennis elbow.
In 1980, when Buchholz was executive director of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) - the player's union - he met a vice president of the Thomas J. Lipton Company who liked his idea of creating a two-week players tournament. A sponsorship agreement would eventually be reached for $1.5 million a year for five years and Lipton would own the title.
The "Winter Wimbledon," as it was first dubbed, would be the first major tournament of the year (the Australian Open was then held in December). It was decided that the first tournament would be held at Laver's International Tennis Resort in Delray Beach, 50 miles north of Miami. The following year, the tournament relocated to Boca Raton followed by a move to its permanent home in Miami in 1987. Buchholz approached the ATP and Women's Tennis Association and offered prize money, a percentage of the ticket sales and worldwide television rights. In return he wanted the rights to run the tournament for 15 years. The associations agreed.
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2004 Season Preview
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 In 1985, following 20 years of nurturing a dream to create a world-class tennis tournament, the first ball was struck at the International Players Championships and a new tradition in tennis began.
The first tournament turned out 84 of the top 100 men and 97 of the top 100 women. ESPN telecast the first weekend and the men's semifinals, and ABC telecast the finals live. Networks from Australia, England, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden and West Germany also were present.
Buchholz brought in Alan Mills, tournament referee at Wimbledon, as head referee, and Ted Tinling, a well-known tennis fashion designer since the 1920s, as director of protocol. The first match played was between fourth-seeded Manuela Maleeva and Angeliki Kanellopoulou, a 19-year old from Greece ranked 112th. The first champions were Tim Mayotte and Martina Navratilova; the women's final between Navratilova and Chris Evert was a sellout. The prize money of $1.8 million was surpassed only by Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
In the tournament's second year, signs of stability began rolling in as 43 of the top 50 men and 46 of the top 50 women entered. Shortly after, then Miami-Dade County Manager and WTA Executive Director, Merrett Stierheim, helped pave the way for a move to Miami, where a $1 million, 10,000 square-foot clubhouse was built at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami in 1989 and plans for a permanent stadium were to be developed. In the process, the County faced a series of lawsuits attempting to prevent construction. The legal entanglement finally was resolved in November of 1992 and in 1994 the $20 million stadium opened, which also serves as home to the USTA Player Development Program. That year also marked the tournament's 10th anniversary.
Now a 12-day event heading into its 19th year of showcasing world-class tennis, the NASDAQ-100 Open has reached the next echelon in presenting an international sports extravaganza. With $6.210 million in prize money set for 2003 and all of the top players and media from all corners of the world covering the action every day, the NASDAQ-100 Open has earned its place in the world as the fifth largest tennis tournament in terms of players, prize money and attendance, surpassed only by the Grand Slams.
In 2002, the tournament was televised in the United States by CBS, ESPN, and ESPN2, and internationally by ESPN International and many other terrestrial broadcast partners. Each year, television coverage reaches more than 150 countries, radio coverage is broadcast in more than 44 languages, and print media reports are followed by millions and millions of tennis enthusiasts worldwide.
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