# Ultimate Tennis Showdown

The Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS) is an international individual tennis league that was founded in 2020. The competition was organized by tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou and businessman Alex Popyrin, father of professional tennis player Alexei Popyrin. Originally created as a response to the disruption of the professional tennis season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UTS has since taken place every year except in 2022.
The first three events were held in 2020; the first two were organized at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Biot near Nice and the third was held in Antwerp. In 2021, UTS returned to the Mouratoglou Academy for its fourth edition. After a two-year absence, UTS returned in July 2023 with a series of three events in the United States, Germany, and South Korea, designed to culminate in a new "Grand Final" at the end of the season, which took place at The ICC London, United Kingdom. The 2024 series featured 4 events, in Norway and then returning to the United States, Frankfurt and the Grand Final once again in the United Kingdom, this time taking place at the Copper Box Arena, London. Event 1 of the 2025 series will be in Mexico and then Italy.
All events use a modified scoring format, with matches divided into timed quarters. Among the features UTS has built into the tournament to differentiate the game are "bonus cards" that can affect the amount of points a player can accrue within a quarter.

## Format

UTS matches use a different format in comparison to traditional rules, including matches being divided into timed quarters rather than sets, a 15-second shot clock for serves and the ability to take a coaching timeout once per-set, and "cards" — which allow players to affect the game (such as taking away the opponent's second serve). Until UTS 4, even if a player had a majority in quarters, all 4 quarters were played for averaging purposes. If two players are equal in the amount of quarters won, a 'sudden death' is played, where the first player to win two consecutive points wins the match. Introduced in UTS 4, players only have one serve per point, where lets are played; and 'KO Mode', where if a player is leading by 10 points in the quarter, it is declared over.
The UTS also does not enforce a code of conduct.

## Past results
### Men

| Edition | Year | Location | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
| UTS 1 | 2020 | Biot | Matteo Berrettini The Hammer | Stefanos Tsitsipas The Greek God | 16–15, 15–12, 12–14, 8–15, 3–2 |
| UTS 2 | 2020 | Biot | Alexander Zverev The Lion | Félix Auger-Aliassime The Panther | 19–10, 11–13, 10–18, 18–8, 3–1 |
| UTS 3 | 2020 | Antwerp | Alex de Minaur The Demon | Richard Gasquet The Virtuoso | 24–9, 15–14, 20–10 |
| UTS 4 | 2021 | Biot | Corentin Moutet The Tornado | Taylor Fritz The Hotshot | 12–14, 15–11, 13–12, 16–8 |
| UTS 5 | 2023 | Los Angeles | Wu Yibing The Great Wall | Taylor Fritz (2) The Hotshot | 11–16, 7–20, 12–11, 16–9, 2–0 |
| UTS 6 | 2023 | Frankfurt | Andrey Rublev Rublo | Grigor Dimitrov G-Unit | 14–13, 12–17, 11–10, 17–16 |
| UTS 7 | 2023 | Seoul | postponed indefinitely | postponed indefinitely | postponed indefinitely |
| UTS 8 | 2023 | London | Jack Draper The Power | Holger Rune The Viking | 12–14, 15–12, 13–10, 19–7 |
| UTS 9 | 2024 | Oslo | Andrey Rublev Rublo | Alex de Minaur The Demon | 14–16, 17–10, 16–13, 20–12 |
| UTS 10 | 2024 | New York | Gaël Monfils La Monf | Alexander Bublik The Bublik Enemy | 10–20, 17–12, 17–14, 15–14 |
| UTS 11 | 2024 | Frankfurt | Ben Shelton The Mountain | Ugo Humbert The Commander | 10–19, 18–8, 15–11, 19–11 |
| UTS 12 | 2024 | London | Alex de Minaur The Demon | Holger Rune The Viking | 13–8, 14–11, 16–10 |

### Women

| Edition | Year | Location | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
| UTS 2 | 2020 | Biot | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova The Thunder | Alizé Cornet The Volcano | 16–8, 12–11, 11–14, 9–16, 3–1 |
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