The Grand Prix tennis circuit was a professional tennis tour for male players that existed from 1970 to 1989. It was the more prominent of two predecessors to the current tour for male players, the ATP Tour, the other being World Championship Tennis (WCT).
Read more about Grand Prix Tennis Circuit: Background, The Formation of The Grand Prix, ILTF—WCT Rivalry and The Association of Tennis Professionals, Integration and The End, Governance, Sponsors and Grand Prix Tour Names, Formation of The ATP Tour, Grand Prix Season End Rankings (Top 10) : 1970-1989
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“The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly,
There the old misgivings, crooked questions are.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle’s eye.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)