Total Tennis:About

Total Tennis is free tennis wiki committed to providing information on all aspects of the professional world of tennis. Originally founded in July 2009, with the goal to chronicle only the grand slam and major tournaments, eventually branching out to cover the other tournaments on the tennis tours. During a redesign and refocus of the project in 2014, the projects scope expanded to include junior tournaments and challenger tournaments which is closer to the scope of the wiki today.

The main goal of Total Tennis is to cover all aspects of the main ATP, WTA and ITF tennis tours, wheelchair tennis and the junior tennis tour. The Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup are recent additions to the scope of the project, with the aim to provide information on all tennis players who've competed within a year from the lowest groups to the World Group or Finals of the tournaments.

The strongest feature of Total Tennis is the commitment to information provided in the tennis players articles, and with a vision to further expand on the information currently offered in the wheelchair tennis articles similar to the recent expansion on the detail provided in the junior tennis career portion of a players articles.

History
Total Tennis had been originally founded in July 2009, with the goal of the wiki to chronicle the grand slam and major tournaments, eventually branching out to cover the main tennis tours. The wiki has undergone many redesigns and changes in focus over it's tenure, having been shutdown and restarted numerous times. The firs tmajor redesign and refocus of the project came in 2014, with the project expanding its scope to include junior tournaments and challenger events. It would be a few months later where the project expanded to include finalists of challenger tournaments.

Total Tennis closed in February 2017, and at the height of the project it amassed 9,589 articles. The project would reopen again in May 2017 and run until the end of 2019, and again reopen in August 2020 and closing two years later, at the height of these projects we would see 10,474 articles being created.

The current project reopened in July 2023, and has expanded its range to also include team tournaments and wheelchair tennis. Since reopening there have been numerous redesigns on the tournament articles and junior tennis career section of the tennis players articles. General notability has also shifted to include larger groups of players. Currently we have articles, with a consistently expanding focus.

Players

 * Main Tours – ATP and WTA Tour
 * Entering into the main draw (Singles/Doubles/Mixed) of a Grand Slam tournament. (Open era onward)
 * Pre-open era draws and finals are still in question of player notability.


 * Entering into the main draw (Singles/Doubles) of a masters tournament.
 * Entering into the main draw (Singles/Doubles/Mixed) of the Summer Olympics.
 * Entering into the qualifying of a grand slam, masters, junior grand slam, or team tournament.
 * Making the final of a main tour tournament.
 * Players usually prove notable long before making their first final.


 * Challenger Tours – ATP Challenger Tour, WTA 125K Tour, ITF Women's Circuit
 * Making the final of a challenger tour tournament:
 * All ATP Challenger Tour (since 1978) and WTA Challenger/125K Series (since 2012) tournaments.
 * ITF Women's Circuit tournaments (1994 – 2018), ITF Women's World Tennis Tour finals (2019 – Present)
 * Categories recognised as top tier challengers:
 * $75,000, $50,000: 1994 – 2006
 * $100,000, $75,000, $50,000: 2007 – 2016
 * $100,000, $80,000, $60,000: 2017 – 2018
 * W100, W80, W60, W40: 2019 – Present
 * Satellite tournament wins aren't recognized as a title on the ITF website, so are not listed on the players profiles.


 * ITF Juniors Circuit
 * Junior players are notable for inclusion if they have entered in:
 * Entering into the main draw (Singles/Doubles) of a Grand Slam tournament.
 * Entering into the main draw (Singles/Doubles/Mixed) of the Summer Youth Olympics.
 * Entering into the qualifying of a grand slam, masters, junior grand slam, junior grade a tournament or junior Davis Cup/Billie Jean King Cup tournament.


 * Wheelchair Tennis
 * Wheelchair tennis players are notable for inclusion if they have entered in:
 * Entering into the main draw of a Wheelchair Grand Slam (Singles/Doubles/Quad) tournament.
 * Entering into the main draw (Singles/Doubles/Quad) of the Summer Paralympics.
 * Entering into the main draw of a Junior Wheelchair Grand Slam (Boys/Girls) tournament. (2022 – onwards)


 * Other areas
 * Being selected for a tie for Davis Cup and Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup is considered notable.

Article naming

 * Tennis players
 * Except in certain instances, players are named as listed on the ATP, WTA or ITF websites. When these conflict other sources are used such as social media accounts or newspaper articles.
 * If two or more players share the same name, the more notable or well-known player will retain the original article name, such as Ekaterina Makarova and Martin Damm. Should there be a second player with the same name, birth year or nationality will be used to distinguish the players, such as Ekaterina Makarova (1996) and Martin Damm (USA).
 * In certain instances the tennis players are of similar notability or well-known, the most recently active tennis player with retain the original article name, with the retired player having the above distinctions, such as Richard Mallory and Richard Mallory (1965).
 * Should the birth date or different nationality be unavailable, the player will be named based on their playing activity.


 * Tournaments
 * Tournaments are named based on the first week they take place, an example is "2017-01-02 Auckland" which takes places on the first and second of week in 2017.
 * Masters tournaments are separated from their counterpart, an example is "2017 Dubai (masters)" the women's masters tournament being separate from the men's draw "2017-02-27 Dubai".
 * Challenger tournaments are named on the week they take place and the tour they are apart of, with (c) and (itf) to distinguish between the tournaments.

Other areas

 * All main tour tournaments, challenger tennis tournaments are eligible for creation.
 * Full draws of the Grand slam, Master tournaments are eligible for inclusion.


 * Full junior grand slam tournaments are notable for inclusion from  and before.
 * Year-end tournament rankings for player profiles are obtained from the ATP, WTA or ITF website.
 * Cut off for inactive players added to retired players category is August .
 * Players are named in tournaments based on how they are listed on the ATP, WTA, ITF pages, with exceptions.
 * All levels of the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup are considered notable.
 * Only main draws are notable for junior and challenger tournaments.

Article size
Typically only players profiles will find themselves needing to be split, though the minimum expeted size for an article is 2,000kb. With only the more basic outline of information left on the profile. However Grand Slam, Masters, Olympics and Team events also require splitting into their own articles.

The maximum possible size for an article on MediaWiki's software is 2 MiB or 2,097,152 bytes, below is what's expected for an article on the Project:


 * 0b–50kb – Ok article size at present.
 * 50kb – Consider splitting, but it may not be necessary.
 * 70–100kb – Should be considered for separation, only if significant improvements can be made around the article content.