4th - 9th December 2007

This end-of-year tournament is the season finale to the BlackRock Tour of Champions, a year-long Tour that makes its way across Europe and the world and pits past tennis champions against each other in order to earn ranking points (see Qualification below).

In order to play in a BlackRock Tour of Champions event, the player must no longer be active on the ATP Tour and have either been:

The BlackRock Masters Tennis is now firmly established as the UK’s most popular indoor tournament – it is televised on the BBC and draws crowds of more than 30,000 over the course of the event.



QUALIFICATION
The top seven players from the BlackRock Tour of Champions Rankings at the end of the tournament preceding the BlackRock Masters Tennis will qualify automatically for London, with five wildcards making up a field of 12.

Players must compete in a minimum of two BlackRock Tour of Champions events in order to be eligible for qualification.

SINGLES		DOUBLES
12 players are split into 4 groups of 3 Tuesday to Thursday: Round Robin tournament Friday: Quarter finals Saturday: Semi finals Sunday: Final		There will be exhibition Doubles matches from Tuesday to Thursday. Friday will see the start of our competitive Doubles tournament. Eight of the exhibition Doubles players will be joined in a draw with the 4 singles players who failed to qualify for the Singles Quarter finals.
Each session on Saturday will contain a Singles and a Doubles semi final plus an exhibition Doubles match

THE ORDER OF PLAY FOR 2007 WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT. GO TO SCHEDULE, WHERE YOU CAN VIEW THE ORDER OF PLAY AND RESULTS FOR THE 2006 EVENT



SESSION TIMINGS

Tuesday to Saturday:
2 sessions with play commencing at 1.00pm and 7.30pm

Sunday:
1 session with play commencing at approximately 1.30pm.



CHARITY INVOLVEMENT
On Tuesday 4th December 2007, Tim Henman will once again be taking part in a special charity exhibition match in aid of Kids at Heart, during the evening session.

Friday night (quarter finals) was the Gala Charity Night for 2006 and the BlackRock Masters Tennis chose to support Give It Your Max and KINOE. The tournament also helped raised funds for other charities throughout the week including Kids at Heart, Tennis First and Brainwave.

The BlackRock Masters Tennis is highly supportive of charities and has been involved with a wide range of organisations through various means, raising more than £580,000 since the event started in 1997. Some of those we have helped are: