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The ATP Tour has announced the promotion of three tournaments to 500 level status beginning in 2025. Wednesday’s news also came with the confirmation that three fellow 250 tournaments will bid farewell after the 2024 season.

Dallas, Doha and Munich successfully won their bids to be upgraded, joining 13 existing destinations boasting ATP 500 events. Munich has been a fixture of the men’s tour since its inception in 1973 and has designs of delivering a full renovation. Doha emerged 20 years later and is currently one of two tournaments held in the Middle East. Dallas debuted in 2022 after relocating from Long Island, N.Y. and is the only indoor ATP event held in the U.S.

Daniil Medvedev won this year's Qatar ExxonMobil Open title.

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According to the ATP, the elevation of these three tournaments will produce “$51.7 million in additional player compensation over a five-year period.”

This is the latest development in the strategic vision first outlined by ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi in September 2020 to strengthen the calendar. This year saw a significant year-over-year increase in player compensation on both the ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour and the expansion of Masters 1000 stops in Madrid, Rome and Shanghai to 12-day events. Four more 1000 tournaments will follow suit over the next two years.

Cutting ties is part of the new direction, too. Events in Atlanta, Lyon and Newport will be phased out from 2025, the tour revealed. The Infosys Hall of Fame Open is the ATP's lone grass-court tournament staged outside of Europe.

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