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Turning pro is a very long and crazy process. There are three levels of tournaments as you move your way up the rankings. First off, anyone can enter tournaments called satellite tournaments. They are held all over the world. Each of these tournaments have qualifiers. If you make the main draw of these tournaments and win several rounds, you get points. Once you accumulate enough points in the satellite circuit, you would then move up to the higher level tournaments called challengers.

In challengers, the draws are determined by how many points you have (which determines ranking). If you have enough points, you can play in the draw. If you do well enough in these tournaments and get enough points, you can move up to professional tournaments. But if you don't do well enough and win any matches on the pro circuit, people will move ahead of you in the rankings and you have to go back to challengers earning points again.

People like Nadal did well on the junior ITA circuit so sometimes they are given wild cards in to tournaments (spots in the main draw or qualifiers of events that allow them to gather ranking points quicker). Sorry if that went on too long, but it isn't something Joe Blow off the street does by stopping by the US Open to see if he can play in the tournament. It is a long, hard, and very expensive process. If a player makes it to the top 100, at the least it is 1-2 years of play on the lower circuit.

Futures tournaments from the ITF is the easiest tournaments to be played with the least points and prize money to be won.

That's where most people start. If you play college tennis you may try a satellite tournament series and hope to be included in the qualifying draws. You should try Futures tournaments 1st to get a little bit of points, you have a better chance of being included in Satellite tournaments if you do have a point or 2... Yes that's it!! Federer has 5000+ points, for winning a match in a main draw of a Futures tournament you may get 1 point....

As soon as you accept more prize money than you needed to cover expenses, you have officially forgone your 'amateur' status and are pro. you can no longer play college tennis.

futures are the best way....but you can start even smaller than that. larger men's opens tournaments often give out prize money.

and that guy that says federer has played 10 years for those points is a moron. you only get 365 days worth of points. he gained zero points for instance for winning the US Open because he was defending champion points. he simply defended all of his points for winning the year before so he loses no points....but he gained none. your points from 2+ years ago are merely a memory.

good question... i was thinking the same too,, the people that might knew how to be pro is the pro himself.... if we see their score at atp, federer's is about seven thusand more, while nadal is 5+++, and for the third and fourth seed are 3+++. imagine federer plays for about 10 years to get those point..

Turning pro is not all that simple or easy as it

seems.The hassles and rigors one has to go through to reach that level are not for the trepid.

One has to be tough both physically and mentally to get there.

just go to th web sites and get the application