2025 A Month in the Sun: How it Works

[dave g]

Welcome to AMITS (A Month in the Sun) TAT Fantasy Contest!

Get ready for the fantasy tennis season to begin.

Below you will find all of the information you need to assemble, post, manage, and moan about/cheer for your team.

Picking Your Team
To enter the AMitS TAT Fantasy Contest, you need to assemble a unique team consisting of TWELVE players. Of those twelve players, six must be from the ATP and six must be from the WTA. Any team with too many men or women will not be included in the competition.
To view the players and categories, go to the Player Categories thread

You must choose a specific number of players from each of the categories available to you. From category A you must pick FOUR players, from category B you must pick THREE playes, from categories C and D you must pick TWO players. From the last category E, you pick ONE player. You may substitute any player not in the top 100 (in the categories posts) as a wildcard instead of your category E player, but please be carefull to spell their name correctly.

It is up to YOU to decide how you spread your WTA and ATP player picks. If you want to pick four WTA players for your category A picks, that's your choice. It would leave you with just the two WTA picks for the remaining four categories.


Example:
Cat-A:
Cat-B:
Cat-C:
Cat-D:
Cat-E:

As you can see, the team consists of six ATP players and six WTA players. As long as you make sure it's 50/50 ATP/WTA, it's fine by us. Part of the challenge for you, as always, is finding the right balance.

Also note that we have several pairs of players with the same last name (the William sisters, the Pliskova sisters, and two Wangs). In those cases, please include the first initial (first two letters in the case of the Pliskovas) . Thankfully, none of the pairs are in the same category, so we should be able to figure out which one you mean, but adding the first initial will reduce any chance of confusion.

Important: Your initial team cannot duplicate another participant's team. It will be your responsibility to ensure that your team does not duplicate another participant's team. If there are two duplicate entries, the earliest entry will be accepted, while the duplicate entry will be rejected.


Tournament Points
Prior to posting your team, you may want to check to see who is playing where and examine the different point values for various tournaments. The points for the different rounds are in a later post within this thread.


Making Trades
You get FOUR trades. Any trade needs to be made before the first tournament of the next week starts, otherwise the traded player will not earn points until the tournament after that. This is important because main draw play for some tournaments will begin on Sundays. There will be a trades thread once the competition has started.

Warning on trades: if your trades result in an illegal team, such as violating the 50/50 ATP/WTA rule or not having the correct number of players in each category, you trades will be cancelled and the trades will count against you total number of allowable trades. For instance, if at the end of the first week you make two trades that create an illegal team, you will enter the second week with your original team and only two remaining trades.

If you have any questions, reply to this thread. I will be posting the deadlines here also.


Now what?
Grab a pen and a piece of paper (or just open a new tab and prepare to reply) and select your team! All categories can be found in the Players Categories thead. Just remember: FOUR category A picks, THREE category B picks, TWO category C and D picks and ONE pick from category E. Six men, six women.
Then, feel free to stay in touch with the other participants in the Yarra River Lounge.AM
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[dave g]

ATP Player List
Category A
1 Jannik Sinner
2 Alexander Zverev
3 Carlos Alcaraz
4 Taylor Fritz
5 Daniil Medvedev
6 Casper Ruud
7 Novak Djokovic
8 Andrey Rublev
9 Alex de Minaur
10 Grigor Dimitrov
11 Stefanos Tsitsipas
12 Tommy Paul
13 Holger Rune
14 Ugo Humbert
15 Jack Draper -

Category B
16 Hubert Hurkacz
17 Lorenzo Musetti
18 Frances Tiafoe
19 Karen Khachanov
20 Arthur Fils
21 Ben Shelton
22 Sebastian Korda
23 Alejandro Tabilo
24 Alexei Popyrin
25 Tomas Machac
26 Jordan Thompson
27 Sebastian Baez
28 Jiri Lehecka
29 Felix Auger-Aliassime
30 Francisco Cerundolo
31 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
32 Flavio Cobolli
33 Alexander Bublik
34 Matteo Berrettini
35 Nicolas Jarry

Category C
36 Nuno Borges
37 Matteo Arnaldi
38 Brandon Nakashima
39 Tomas Martin Etcheverry
40 Tallon Griekspoor
41 Alex Michelsen
42 Jan-Lennard Struff
43 Pedro Martinez
44 Luciano Darderi
45 Zhizhen Zhang
46 Marcos Giron
47 Mariano Navone
48 Jakub Mensik
49 Cameron Norrie
50 Juncheng Shang
51 Roberto Bautista Agut
52 David Goffin
53 Lorenzo Sonego
54 Miomir Kecmanovic
55 Gael Monfils
56 Denis Shapovalov
57 Roberto Carballes Baena
58 Fabian Marozsán
59 Arthur Rinderknech
60 Roman Safiullin

Category D
61 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
62 Jaume Munar
63 Arthur Cazaux
64 Christopher O'Connell
65 Yunchaokete Bu
66 Adrian Mannarino
67 Alexandre Muller
68 Aleksandar Vukic
69 Yoshihito Nishioka
70 Corentin Moutet
71 Zizou Bergs
72 Quentin Halys
73 Rinky Hijikata
74 Thiago Seyboth Wild
75 Benjamin Bonzi
76 Hugo Gaston
77 Thanasi Kokkinakis
78 Alexander Shevchenko
79 Facundo Diaz Acosta
80 Botic van de Zandschulp

Category E
81 Dusan Lajovic
82 James Duckworth
83 Damir Dzumhur
84 Taro Daniel
85 Francisco Comesana
86 Pavel Kotov
87 Gabriel Diallo
88 Sebastian Ofner
89 Daniel Altmaier
90 Borna Coric
91 Fabio Fognini
92 Luca Nardi
93 Adam Walton
94 Otto Virtanen
95 Emil Ruusuvuori
96 Yannick Hanfmann
97 Camilo Ugo Carabelli
98 Sumit Nagal
99 Jacob Fearnley
100 Federico Coria

[dave g]

WTA Player List

Category A
1 Aryna Sabalenka
2 Iga Swiatek
3 Coco Gauff
4 Jasmine Paolini
5 Qinwen Zheng
6 Elena Rybakina
7 Jessica Pegula
8 Emma Navarro
9 Daria Kasatkina
10 Barbora Krejcikova
11 Danielle Collins
12 Paula Badosa
13 Diana Shnaider
14 Anna Kalinskaya
15 Jelena Ostapenko

Category B
16 Mirra Andreeva
17 Beatriz Haddad Maia
18 Marta Kostyuk
19 Donna Vekic
20 Victoria Azarenka
21 Madison Keys
22 Karolina Muchova
23 Elina Svitolina
24 Katie Boulter
25 Magdalena Frech
26 Linda Noskova
27 Liudmila Samsonova
28 Ekaterina Alexandrova
29 Yulia Putintseva
30 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
31 Leylah Fernandez
32 Maria Sakkari
33 Dayana Yastremska
34 Elise Mertens
35 Anastasia Potapova

Category C
36 Amanda Anisimova
37 Xinyu Wang
38 Magda Linette
39 Marketa Vondrousova
40 Lulu Sun
41 Karolina Pliskova
42 Ons Jabeur
43 Elina Avanesyan
44 Marie Bouzkova
45 Katerina Siniakova
46 Rebecca Sramkova
47 Peyton Stearns
48 Caroline Garcia
49 Yue Yuan
50 Clara Tauson
51 Olga Danilovic
52 Elisabetta Cocciaretto
53 Viktoriya Tomova
54 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
55 Moyuka Uchijima
56 Anhelina Kalinina
57 Emma Raducanu
58 Naomi Osaka
59 Katie Volynets
60 Camila Osorio

Category D
61 Kamilla Rakhimova
62 Yafan Wang
63 Diane Parry
64 Ashlyn Krueger
65 Mayar Sherif
66 Varvara Gracheva
67 Mccartney Kessler
68 Taylor Townsend
69 Sorana Cirstea
70 Caroline Wozniacki
71 Bernarda Pera
72 Veronika Kudermetova
73 Lucia Bronzetti
74 Sloane Stephens
75 Renata Zarazua
76 Arantxa Rus
77 Anna Blinkova
78 Caroline Dolehide
79 Irina-Camelia Begu
80 Laura Siegemund

Category E
81 Sofia Kenin
82 Alycia Parks
83 Erika Andreeva
84 Sonay Kartal
85 Jaqueline Cristian
86 Tatjana Maria
87 Suzan Lamens
88 Zeynep Sönmez
89 Jule Niemeier
90 Viktorija Golubic
91 Nuria Parrizas Diaz
92 Hailey Baptiste
93 Anna Bondar
94 Maria Lourdes Carle
95 Greet Minnen
96 Ann Li
97 Olivia Gadecki
98 Xiyu Wang
99 Clara Burel
100 Nadia Podoroska

[dave g]

AMitS: Tournaments and Points

Here are the points your players will earn you.
Week 1: 12/28/2024 - 1/5/2025
ATP: Brisbane and Hong Kong
WTA: Auckland and Brisbane

Week 2: 1/4/2025 - 1/11/2025
ATP: Auckland and Adelaide
WTA: Hobart and Adelaide

Weeks 3 and 4: 1/11/2025 - 1/26/2025
Australian Open

* A couple of notes on timing of tournaments: 1) on Week 1, Hong Kong starts first on Saturday 12/28, 2) on Week 2, Hobart starts first on Saturday, 1/4. and 3) the Australian Open website says that the first round of play starts on Saturday, 1/11.

Weeks 1 and 2 except WTA Brisbane
R-1: 5
R-2: 50
Quarters: 125
Semis: 225
RU: 350
Winner: 500

WTA Brisbane
R-1: 2
R-2 5
R-3: 50
Quarters: 125
Semis: 225
RU: 350
Winner: 500


Australian Open
R-1: 10
R-2: 45
R-3: 90
R-4: 180
Quarters: 360
Semis: 720
RU: 1400
Winner: 2000

[dave g]

The tentative team posting deadline is 10:00 a.m. Saturday, 12/1 28 Hong Kong time. This is 2:00 a.m. London time,
and 9:00 p.m. FRIDAY 12/1 27 New York.

(This is before I get back from my Christmas trip.)

[tenedab]

Thanks dave g! Enjoy your trip. As far as the deadline Hong Kong MD matches start Monday, 12/30 as per Hong Kong tournament site. Brisbane starts Sunday, 12/29 for both ATP and WTA

[ashkor87]

Something off with the deadlines..already past when it was posted.

[patrick]

Hopefully deadline gets pushed to a day or two later

[wolfy333]

There are no draws for Hong Kong yet???

[dave g]

There are no draws for Hong Kong yet???

Here is a link to a pdf version of the draw. https://www.protennislive.com/posting/2025/336/mds.pdf

1 RUBLEV, Andrey
2 Bye
3 SAFIULLIN, Roman
4 MAROZSAN, Fabian HUN
5 SHANG, Juncheng CHN
6 WC WONG, Coleman HKG
7 Qualifier
8 7 MARTINEZ, Pedro ESP
9 3 KHACHANOV, Karen
10 Bye
11 SHAPOVALOV, Denis CAN
12 WC NISHIKORI, Kei JPN
13 NORRIE, Cameron GBR
14 TIEN, Learner USA
15 SONEGO, Lorenzo ITA
16 6 NAKASHIMA, Brandon USA
17 8 DARDERI, Luciano ITA
18 KECMANOVIC, Miomir SRB
19 MULLER, Alexandre FRA
20 Qualifier
21 WC BERGS, Zizou BEL
22 Qualifier
23 Bye
24 4 FILS, Arthur FRA
25 5 BORGES, Nuno POR
26 BU, Yunchaokete CHN
27 MUNAR, Jaume ESP
28 DAVIDOVICH FOKINA, A… ESP
29 Qualifier
30 CARBALLES BAENA, R… ESP
31 Bye
32 2 MUSETTI, Lorenzo ITA

[dave g]

Brisbane starts first at 10:30 a.m. December 29, 2024, local time. This is 11:30 p.m. Dec 28, GMT, and 6:30 p.m. Dec 28, US eastern time.
So, that is the deadline for team submission.

[Omegadoom]

Main draw match play begins at 11:00 AM local time, Sunday, December 29th in WTA Brisbane, Australia, so the official deadline to post your teams is {TODAY} Saturday, December 28th, at 8:00 PM US eastern time.

[dave g]

Please remember that if you are picking one of the Kudermetova sisters or one of the Andreeva sisters, to please include the first name's initial. Thankfully, the each sister is in a different category from her sister, but having the intial to be sure, would be appreciated.

[dave g]

While Hobart states Satuday as their starting time, that is only for the qualifying rounds. All four tournaments actually start on Monday (their local time). Auckland is in the earliest time zone. Assuming play starts at 10:00 a.m. local time, the trade deadline would be 9:00 p.m. Sunday GMT, and 3:00 p.m. Sunday US eastern time.

[Omegadoom]

While Hobart states Satuday as their starting time, that is only for the qualifying rounds. All four tournaments actually start on Monday (their local time). Auckland is in the earliest time zone. Assuming play starts at 10:00 a.m. local time, the trade deadline would be 9:00 p.m. Sunday GMT, and 3:00 p.m. Sunday US eastern time.

Dave is correct on the days, but be prepared for the deadline to probably fall between 5:00 - 8:00 pm EST Sunday evening. We'll post the official deadline as soon as we can, once it's available.