In many sports besides regular season matches several different exhibition matches are played. The All Star Game in NBA is an example of traditionalized exhibition match. Also in football, mostly for the farewell of famous player, best players in the World play exhibition matches. Generally these matches are played in same conditions, same rules and same type of fields with regular matches. In this respect tennis differentiates from other sports in terms of exhibition matches.
First of all, tennis has a special tour just consist of exhibition matches. Black Rock Tour, is a tour for exhibition matches of former tennis legends. Besides Black Rock tour every year many different kind of exhibition matches are played in order to promote the sport and draw attention. In tennis, many of the exhibition matches are played in different and weird places and with different rules. Most of them are played without any rule because they are mostly just a game of tennis rather than a match. Especially, prior to big tournaments interesting exhibition games takes place among tournament’s favorites. İstanbul Cup, Miami and Dubai are famous with their exceptional matches. .
Lets take a look at tennis’ most interesting exhibition matches: