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Dumbest move of the year

By Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

Monday, December 17, 2007

This year's award for Dumbest Idea by a Major Sports Organization goes to the ATP Tour for its plans to dismantle the tournament tier structure that gave us, among other things, the entity known as the Master Series. Starting in 2009, the ATP proposes to have three grades of tournaments, which will be known by the staggeringly sexy names: 1000s, 500s or 250s. In other words, Cincinnati will no longer be known as part of the Masters Series, or as an ATP Masters event. It will be a 1000 Tourname ...

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