Andrea Gaudenzi

He currently serves as Executive Chairman of the ATP Tour. The ATP is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits - the ATP Tour, the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP Champions Tour. With 64 tournaments in 31 countries, the ATP Tour showcases the finest male athletes competing in the world’s most exciting venues. From Australia to Europe and the Americas to Asia, the stars of the ATP Tour battle for prestigious titles and ATP Rankings points at ATP Tour Masters 1000, 500 and 250 events, as well as Grand Slams. At the end of the season only the world’s top 8 qualified singles players and doubles teams will qualify to compete for the last title of the season at the Nitto ATP Finals.

Gaudenzi was born in Faenza, Italy, and reached his career-high ATP singles ranking in February 1995, when he became World No. 18. He has victories over Roger Federer in 2002 Rome, Pete Sampras in the first round of the 2002 French Open, Jim Courier in the US Open 1994 and Goran Ivanisevic, Thomas Muster, Michael Stich, Yevgeny Kafelnikov. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he was defeated in the third round by the eventual winner Andre Agassi and reached the Davis Cup Final in 1998, semifinals in 1995 and 1996, playing both singles and doubles. He won three ATP Tour titles and six finals, and he reached the semifinals in the Monte Carlo Master Series in 1995, losing to Thomas Muster.

Andrea Gaudenzi (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa ɡauˈdɛntsi] ) born 30 July 1973 is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1990 after becoming Junior World Champion winning both Roland Garros and US Open. He is currently the chairman of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).