Stefanos Tsitsipas says two-week Masters 1000s are 'a drag'—but Stan Wawrinka remembers when he said otherwise

Judson Wall didn’t have to go this hard, but he did, and we should be thankful. An avid tennis fan, Wall mapped out the entire ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour season by location, tier, surface and more.

I wrote a piece detailing the 2019 @atptour and @ATPChallenger tour through maps and stats. It’s primo tennis hipster content. Check it out 👍https://t.co/81BlfHrQJt
— 🎾🤙🏼 (@tennisinaloha) November 30, 2019

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“This project combines my two loves, tennis and geography,” Wall told Baseline. “I started mapping the ATP and Challenger tour on a weekly basis and continued through week 47.”

The project revealed many things you’ll only see in a whacky sport like tennis. Tournament inequality was a big one: Europe and North America combined to host the vast majority of ATP events with a whopping 160 of 227 tournaments, while the entire continent of Africa hosted just two events.

Excellent work! 👊🏻 This however is the saddest part for me...we gotta leave not only home country, but the continent to pursue the sport professionally as an African... pic.twitter.com/xtygwfaIt5
— Rob Koenig (@RobKoenigTennis) November 30, 2019

Africa isn’t the only country that got left out.

"India has just one ATP & ATP Challenger tournament for every 466,666,667 people (3 total, for a population of 1.4 billion)," Wall said.

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Tennis fan creates telling map of 2019 ATP season

If you can’t play on clay then forget about seeing beautiful Italy, since about 90 percent of all available points there are on the dirt.

“The lack of a grass season sticks out to me,” Wall said, and he brings up an often-debated question: why don’t we have an ATP Masters 1000 on grass? That’s quite unfair to the quick-handed, big-serving types out there.

In any case, the map is a must-see for fans and players, and raises a lot of questions for what could, and should, change in the future.