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2017 WTA Tour
2017 WTA Tour: women's pro tennis season. Serena Williams won a record 23rd major at the Australian Open; five players (Kerber, Williams, Pliskova, Muguruza, Halep) held No.1, Halep year-end No.1; Wozniacki won the Singapore Finals.
2018 ATP World Tour
2018 ATP World Tour: men's pro tennis circuit, 64 tournaments in 31 countries, $137.5M prize money; Djokovic year-end No. 1, Zverev won Nitto ATP Finals in London; last season before 2019 rebrand to ATP Tour.
2018 Australian Open
2018 Australian Open, Grand Slam hard-court tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, 15–28 January 2018. Roger Federer won his 20th major and record-equalling sixth AO title; Caroline Wozniacki won her first Slam and the No. 1 ranking.
2018 Davis Cup
2018 Davis Cup: last edition of the home-and-away World Group format. Croatia beat France 3-1 in the Lille final for its second title; 132 nations entered; reform to an 18-team Finals passed for 2019.
2018 Fed Cup
The 2018 Fed Cup, the 56th edition of the largest annual women's tennis team competition, drew 109 nations and was won by the Czech Republic, which beat defending champion United States 3-0 in Prague.
2018 French Open
2018 French Open (Roland Garros), 27 May–10 June 2018, Paris clay Grand Slam. Rafael Nadal beat Dominic Thiem 6-4 6-3 6-2 for an 11th title; Simona Halep beat Sloane Stephens for her first major; Herbert/Mahut won men's doubles.
2018 Roger Federer tennis season
2018 Roger Federer tennis season: Swiss player's ATP season with 20th Grand Slam at Australian Open (beat Cilic), Rotterdam and Stuttgart titles, oldest world No. 1 at 36, year-end No. 3 behind Djokovic and Nadal.
2018 US Open (tennis)
2018 US Open (tennis): Grand Slam hard-court event, 27 Aug–9 Sep 2018, New York. Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 in a controversial final; Djokovic won his 14th major; record $53 million prize money and 800,000+ attendance.
2018 Wimbledon Championships
2018 Wimbledon Championships, July 2–15 at the All England Club: Djokovic beat Anderson for the men's title, Kerber beat Serena Williams for the women's, and the 6h36m Anderson–Isner semifinal prompted the 2019 final-set tiebreak.
2018 WTA Tour
2018 WTA Tour: 45th season of women's professional tennis, 55 tournaments plus four Grand Slams in 32 countries, $139 million prize money; Halep year-end No. 1, Svitolina won the final Singapore WTA Finals.
2019 ATP Finals
The 2019 ATP Finals, played at The O2 Arena in London, was the year-end men's tennis championship won by Stefanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Dominic Thiem in three sets.
2019 ATP Tour
2019 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season of 63 tournaments in 31 countries plus four Grand Slams; Nadal year-end No. 1 (fifth time, oldest ever), Djokovic won Australian Open and Wimbledon, Nadal took Roland Garros and US Open, Tsitsipas won the ATP Finals.
2019 Australian Open
2019 Australian Open, Melbourne Park, 14-27 January 2019: Djokovic beat Nadal for a record seventh men's title, Osaka won her first AO, attendance record 796,435, 10-point final-set tiebreak and Heat Stress Scale debuted.
2019 Davis Cup
2019 Davis Cup: first edition of the reformed Davis Cup Finals, 18 teams at La Caja Mágica, Madrid, 18–24 November 2019, backed by Gerard Piqué's Kosmos. Spain beat Canada 2-0 for a sixth title, Nadal and Bautista winning the final rubbers.
2019 Davis Cup Finals
2019 Davis Cup Finals (Davis Cup by Rakuten Madrid Finals): inaugural restructured Davis Cup Finals, 18 teams at La Caja Magica, Madrid, 18-24 November 2019; Spain beat Canada 2-0 for a sixth title, led by Nadal.
2019 French Open
2019 French Open (Roland-Garros 2019), Grand Slam clay tournament in Paris, 26 May–9 June 2019. Rafael Nadal won a 12th men's title over Dominic Thiem; Ashleigh Barty won the women's singles; record 520,000 attendance; Chatrier rebuilt.
2019 Roger Federer tennis season
The 2019 Roger Federer tennis season was the Swiss player's twenty-first season on the ATP Tour, in which he won four titles and finished the year ranked No. 3.
2019 US Open – Women's singles
2019 US Open women's singles: Bianca Andreescu beat Serena Williams 6-3, 7-5 in the final, becoming the first Canadian Grand Slam singles champion and first Open-era US Open debut champion.
2019 US Open (tennis)
2019 US Open (tennis), Grand Slam hard-court event, Aug 26-Sep 8, 2019, Flushing Meadows, New York. Rafael Nadal beat Daniil Medvedev for his fourth title; Bianca Andreescu beat Serena Williams for her first; record 737,872 attendance and $57.2 million prize money.
2019 Wimbledon Championships
2019 Wimbledon Championships (1–14 July 2019), 133rd edition of the grass-court Grand Slam. Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer 13-12 in the first final-set tie-break Grand Slam final; Simona Halep beat Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 for her first Wimbledon title.
2019 WTA Tour
The 2019 WTA Tour, the 46th season of women's professional tennis, ran 55 tournaments across 28 countries, opened with 18 different champions in 18 events, and ended with Ashleigh Barty as year-end No. 1.
2020 ATP Cup
2020 ATP Cup: inaugural edition of the ATP Cup men's team tennis event, 3-12 January 2020 in Brisbane, Perth, and Sydney; 24 countries, $15 million prize money; Serbia beat Spain 2-1 in the final; abolished after 2022.
2020 ATP Tour
2020 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season, 63 planned tournaments plus ATP Cup debut, suspended March 12 to July 31 by COVID-19, resumed August 14; Thiem won US Open, Nadal a 13th French Open.
2020 Australian Open
2020 Australian Open, Grand Slam hard-court tournament in Melbourne, 20 January to 2 February 2020. Novak Djokovic won a record eighth title over Dominic Thiem; Sofia Kenin won her first major; record 812,174 attendance.
2020 French Open
The 2020 French Open (Roland Garros), moved to 27 September–11 October 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, was won by Rafael Nadal (13th title, tying Federer's 20 majors) and Iga Świątek, the first Polish Grand Slam champion.
2020 US Open (tennis)
2020 US Open (tennis): fan-less Grand Slam, Aug 31–Sep 13, 2020, Flushing Meadows biosecure bubble; Dominic Thiem and Naomi Osaka won singles; $53.4M purse, Hawk-Eye Live debut, Djokovic defaulted.
2020 WTA Tour
2020 WTA Tour: pandemic-shortened women's tennis season, planned 53 events plus four Grand Slams but cut to 27; rankings frozen March 16, 2020; 'Better of 2019 and 2020' ranking model; Ashleigh Barty year-end No. 1.
2021 ATP Tour
2021 ATP Tour: men's professional tennis season disrupted by COVID-19; new Singapore and Marbella 250s, Indian Wells moved to October, first Nitto ATP Finals in Turin won by Zverev; Djokovic record seventh year-end No. 1.
2021 Australian Open
2021 Australian Open: Grand Slam hard-court tournament at Melbourne Park, 8–21 February 2021, first February start in over 100 years; Djokovic won his ninth title, Osaka the women's, under strict hotel quarantine.
2021 Davis Cup Finals
2021 Davis Cup Finals (Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals 2021), 25 Nov-5 Dec 2021 in Madrid, Innsbruck, and Turin; 18 teams, round robin plus knockout; Russian Tennis Federation beat Croatia 2-0 in the Madrid Arena final for its third title.