The history of the Miami Masters.

Miami Masters was originally founded by former tennis player Butch Hertz in 1985. His initial goal was to establish an event as the first important event after the start of the season (the Australian Open held in 65438+February) and call it "Wimbledon in Winter". It contacted ATP and WTA and reached an agreement to use ticket and TV broadcast income as the source of bonus.

The first match of 1985 was held in February in Drabeach, Florida. Bouchholtz invited Alan Mills, the referee of Wimbledon, as the referee, and invited Ted Lin Ting, a famous tennis costume designer in the 1920s, to plan. The prize of 654.38+0.8 million was second only to Wimbledon and the US Open at that time, so the competition attracted a large number of top players to participate. 1986 The game was moved to Xiboka. After the game was a great success, it was moved to Biscayne Bay in Miami. Clayton Park Tennis Center has been identified as the venue for the Miami Masters. 1994, a new stadium worth $20 million was officially opened. 1997, clanton Park was also rated as the best tennis court in the world by Tennis magazine.

Due to the different names of sponsors, Miami Masters is also called: Lipton International Players Championship (1985- 1989) and Lipton Championship (1989). 1993- 1999), Ericsson Open (2000-200 1), NASDAQ 100 Open (NASDAQ-100 Open, 2002-2006) and Sony Ericsson Open. The official name of the 20 13 competition was changed to "Sony Tennis Open".