The BB&T Atlanta Tennis Open, July 14-22 2012

The Atlanta Tennis Championships (RCA Championships, Indianapolis Tennis Championships) is a ATP World Tour 250 Masters Event in Atlanta.

First held in 1988 in Indianapolis, Indiana this event was the U.S. Men’s Hard Court Championships, a major tournament of the Grand Prix Tennis Circuit. In 1990 it was renamed the RCA Tennis Championships, and turned a hard court event at the Indianapolis Tennis Center resurfacing all its 18 clay courts with Deco-Turf, to match the US Open surface – it remains a key preparation event for this major timed before the annual trip to Flushing Meadow.

In 2009 the ATP sold the license to a group in Atlanta, Georgia, where this Masters 250 event now resides. So nine years after Andy Roddick won his maiden title on green clay in Atlanta, ATP World Tour tennis returned to Georgia’s capital city in 2010, for the hard-court BB&T Atlanta Open.