{"id":384096,"date":"2026-01-01T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384096\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:26:09","slug":"atp-announces-player-advisory-council-for-2026-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384096\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP announces Player Advisory\u00a0Council\u00a0for 2026 | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ATP Tour<br \/>\n    ATP announces Player Advisory\u00a0Council\u00a0for 2026<\/p>\n<p>First meeting to be held in Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>December 31, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-atp-player-advisory-council.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ATP Tour\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>The ATP on Thursday announced the Player Advisory Council for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo Arevalo, Zizou Bergs, Nuno Borges and Zhang Zhizhen are newly elected members of the Council for three-year terms (2026-2028), while Mackenzie McDonald was re-elected for a second three-year term (also 2026-2028). They join Camilo Ugo Carabelli, Pedro Martinez, Jaume Munar, Andrey Rublev and Andrea Vavassori on the 2026 Council.<\/p>\n<p>Federico Ricci remains the coach representative on the Council and Nicolas Pereira was re-elected to retain his position as alumni representative.<\/p>\n<p>2026 ATP Player Advisory Council<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a0Category<br \/>\n            \u00a0Name<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a01-50 Singles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Andrey Rublev<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a01-50 Singles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Nuno Borges<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a01-50 Singles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Pedro Martinez<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a01-50 Singles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Zizou Bergs<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a051-100 Singles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Camilo Ugo Carabelli<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a051-100 Singles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Mackenzie McDonald<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a01-25 Doubles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Andrea Vavassori<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a01-50 Doubles<br \/>\n            \u00a0Marcelo Arevalo<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a0At-Large<br \/>\n            \u00a0Jaume Munar<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a0At-Large<br \/>\n            \u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/zhizhen-zhang\/z371\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">Zhang Zhizhen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            \u00a0Coach<br \/>\n            \u00a0Federico Ricci<\/p>\n<p>            \u00a0Alumni<br \/>\n            \u00a0Nicolas Pereira<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Player Advisory Council is elected by its peers. Those who are designated to a specific rankings category \u2014 1-50 singles, 51-100 singles, 1-25 doubles and 1-50 doubles and at large by all Group 1 members \u2014 are elected by player members from the same rankings category.<\/p>\n<p>The Council&#8217;s coach representative is elected by ATP coach members and the Alumni representative is elected by ATP alumni members.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Player Advisory Council meets several times a year and makes recommendations to ATP Management and the ATP Board of Directors through the Player Board representatives, whom the Council elects. The first Council meeting of the year will take place in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour ATP announces Player Advisory\u00a0Council\u00a0for 2026 First meeting to be held in Melbourne December 31, 2025 ATP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-384096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}