Editing Tournament (section)

===Tennis===
In professional tennis, satellite circuits were four-week tournaments (five before 1987), typically organised by a country's national tennis association and overseen by the [[International Tennis Federation]]. They were played by players who were ranked outside the top few hundred by the [[Association of Tennis Professionals]], with openings for unranked players in the qualifying draw. Total prize money ranged from $25,000 to $75,000 per circuit.  ATP points were awarded on the basis of a player's ranking within the circuit and from 1987 onwards on the basis of the conversion of a player's circuit points into ATP points. Players successful at this level of pro tennis would move on to play [[ATP Challenger Tour|ATP Challenger Series]] or even top-flight [[ATP Tour]] events. The men's satellite tournaments began as early as 1971 such as the Pacific Southwest Satellite played in Inglewood, California was a standalone event won by [[Mike Estep]], and were officially the second tier of tournaments after the main tour and predated the introduction of challenger events in 1978, they then became the third tier of events and were discontinued following the 2006 season as the circuit moved exclusively to one-week [[Futures tournaments]], the modern denomination for a satellite tournament.