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Can we fix the fading YEC

By Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

Friday, November 14, 2008

Nothing speaks as eloquently to the issue of tennis' overlong season than the ongoing Tennis Masters Cup, the year-end championship of the ATP Tour. The concept of a YEC playoff was introduced in 1970 as the logical conclusion of a new "Grand Prix" system, in which players earned performance points throughout the year and collected year-end bonuses linked to the number of points they earned. That was then and this is now, and our present YEC, which wraps up this weekend in Shanghai, differs fro ...

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