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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 BDO World Darts Championship
2020 BDO World Darts Championship, the 43rd and final BDO world title, held 4–12 January 2020 at the Indigo at the O2, London. Wayne Warren, 57, beat Jim Williams 7–4; Mikuru Suzuki retained the women's title; prize cuts and 15% ticket sales preceded the BDO's collapse.
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 Masters Tournament
2020 Masters Tournament, 84th Masters at Augusta National, played November 12-15, 2020 after COVID-19 postponement from April; first fan-less Masters; Dustin Johnson won at record 20-under 268.
2020 PDC World Darts Championship
2020 PDC World Darts Championship, held at Alexandra Palace 13 Dec 2019–1 Jan 2020; Peter Wright beat Michael van Gerwen 7-3 in the final for his first world title, £500,000 prize, oldest first-time PDC champion.
2020 Premier League Darts
2020 Premier League Darts: PDC darts league suspended by COVID-19 in March, resumed behind closed doors in Milton Keynes, and won by debutant Glen Durrant, who beat Nathan Aspinall 11-8 in the Coventry play-off final on October 15.
2020 Thomas & Uber Cup
2020 Thomas & Uber Cup (TotalEnergies BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals 2020): badminton world team championships in Aarhus, Denmark, postponed from May 2020 to October 2021 amid COVID-19; Indonesia beat China 3-0 for its 14th Thomas Cup.
2020 United States Men's Curling Championship
2020 United States Men's Curling Championship, held Feb 8-15, 2020 in Cheney/Spokane, WA; John Shuster's team went 11-0 and beat Rich Ruohonen 8-6 in the final, earning a Glasgow worlds berth later cancelled by COVID-19.
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.
2021 European Curling Championships
2021 European Curling Championships (Le Gruyère AOP ECC 2021), held in Lillehammer, Norway, 20–27 November 2021 after the 2020 edition's COVID cancellation; Scotland (Bruce Mouat) won the A-Division 11–0, Turkey and Russia won men's B-Division promotion.
2021 French Open
2021 French Open (Roland-Garros), clay Grand Slam in Paris, 24 May–13 June, postponed one week for COVID-19. Djokovic beat Tsitsipas in five sets; Krejcikova won women's singles; Naomi Osaka withdrew after press-conference boycott and $15,000 fine.
2021 French Open – Men's singles
2021 French Open men's singles (Roland-Garros, 30 May–13 June 2021): Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in the semifinal and came back from two sets down to defeat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, winning his 19th major and second Roland-Garros title.
2021 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2021 PDC World Darts Championship (William Hill World Darts Championship) ran 15 December 2020 to 3 January 2021 at Alexandra Palace. Gerwyn Price beat Gary Anderson 7-3 to become the first Welsh champion and world number one.
2021 PGA Championship
The 2021 PGA Championship, 103rd edition of the major, was won by Phil Mickelson at 282 (−6) on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, making him golf's oldest major champion at 50 years, 11 months, 7 days.
2021 Premier League Darts
2021 Unibet Premier League Darts, the PDC's seventeenth edition, a delayed ten-player round-robin held behind closed doors at Milton Keynes's Marshall Arena; Jonny Clayton won on debut, with two nine-dart finishes thrown.
2021 Ryder Cup
The 2021 Ryder Cup, the 43rd edition, was won by the United States 19-9 over Europe at Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin, September 24-26, 2021, after a one-year pandemic postponement; Dustin Johnson went 5-0-0.
2021 Sudirman Cup
2021 Sudirman Cup (TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2021), 17th edition of badminton's world mixed-team championship, held 26 September-3 October 2021 in Vantaa, Finland; China beat Japan 3-1 in the final for a 12th title.
2021 US Open – Men's singles
2021 US Open men's singles: Daniil Medvedev won his first Grand Slam, beating top seed Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the final, denying Djokovic the calendar-year Grand Slam and a 21st major title.
2021 US Open (tennis)
2021 US Open (tennis), 141st edition, Aug 30-Sep 12, 2021, New York hard courts. Daniil Medvedev beat Novak Djokovic to stop a calendar Grand Slam; qualifier Emma Raducanu, 18, won the women's title without dropping a set.
2021 Wimbledon Championships
2021 Wimbledon Championships, The Championships, grass-court Grand Slam at the All England Club, June 28 to July 10, 2021, after 2020's wartime-first cancellation; Djokovic won a 20th major, Barty her first Wimbledon, at 50% capacity rising to full finals crowds.
2021 World Men's Curling Championship
2021 World Men's Curling Championship, held April 2-11, 2021 in the Calgary COVID-19 bubble at Canada Olympic Park after relocation from Ottawa. Sweden's Niklas Edin won a record fifth world title, beating Scotland 10-5; top six teams qualified for Beijing 2022.
2021 World Women's Curling Championship
2021 World Women's Curling Championship, LGT World Women's, held 30 April–9 May 2021 in the Calgary biosecure bubble at WinSport Arena; 14 teams; Switzerland (Tirinzoni) beat RCF 4-2 for gold, USA took bronze.
2021 WTA Tour
2021 WTA Tour, the Women's Tennis Association's elite circuit for 2021; opened in Abu Dhabi, ended at WTA Finals Guadalajara; Barty year-end No. 1; China events lost to COVID and the Peng Shuai suspension.
2022 ATP Finals
2022 Nitto ATP Finals, men's tennis year-end event at Pala Alpitour, Turin, 13-20 November 2022; Novak Djokovic beat Casper Ruud 7-5, 6-3 for a record-tying sixth title and $4,740,300.
2022 ATP Tour
2022 ATP Tour, the men's professional tennis season: Alcaraz youngest year-end No. 1 (6,820 points), Nadal won Australian and French Opens, Djokovic Wimbledon and ATP Finals, Federer retired, China swing cancelled.