Elliot Brannigan writes and edits The Tennis Time. He covers the ATP and WTA tours, the way tournaments are built, and the money and coaching teams behind the results, and he follows the calendar one week at a time.
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About the writer
Elliot Brannigan
In shortElliot is the editor of The Tennis Time. He edits and fact-checks the site against official tour sources and tracks the calendar, the rankings and the records behind the tournament guides, prize-money guides and player profiles.
Elliot is the editor of The Tennis Time. His job is to edit and fact-check every page against official tour sources: the result against the scoreboard, the surface against the tournament's own page, the ranking points against the published table. He tracks the calendar, the rankings and the records, and explains draw sheets, prize money tables and rulebooks for readers who only watch the majors.
The editing on The Tennis Time is built around the weekly rhythm of the tours. Monday brings a new ranking and a new draw somewhere in the world. By Sunday there is a champion, a cheque and a set of ranking points that move a few players up and a few down. The site follows that cycle from the first round of a 250 to the last Sunday of a Slam, and the guides on this site are written in the same order the season happens.
On player profiles, family details, earnings and coaches come from official tour pages and from what players have said in public. A detail that cannot be sourced there is left out.
Beats
The ATP and WTA tours, formats and the business
In shortThree beats: the two professional tours and how their tournaments are structured, the prize money that comes with each title, and the coaching teams around the players.
The first beat is the tours themselves. That means the ATP and WTA calendars, the tiers from the 250s to the Grand Slams, how many ranking points each title is worth and why a Masters 1000 is not simply a bigger 500. Elliot's calendar and tournament guides come out of this beat.
The second is the business side. A champion's cheque, a total purse and the way both have grown or shrunk from year to year say a lot about where a tournament stands. Elliot keeps those numbers in one place, with the date and source of each, and writes the prize-money guides with them.
The third is people. Players choose coaches, change them and sometimes go without one, and the official tour profiles record all of it. His coach directory and the player profiles follow who works with whom, and he is careful to say what is known and what is not.
In shortOfficial sources first, every figure stored with its source and the date it was checked, and estimates labeled as estimates. The full standards are on our about page.
Before a number goes on a page, Elliot finds it in an official place: the tour's ranking list, the tournament's own prize money announcement, the ITF or Grand Slam site. If the only source is a news report, he looks for a second one. If there is none, the number stays out.
Estimates are the hard part, and net worth is the best example. He shows the official career prize money as the fixed number and puts any estimate beside it, marked as an estimate with the year and the basis. A guess dressed as a fact is the one thing he will not publish.
The rest of the process is written down on the about page: how often the data is reviewed, how imagery is labeled and how corrections are logged. Elliot works to those standards on every page he writes.
This week on the beat
The tournaments he is following now
In shortThe ATP and WTA events running this week, read from the same calendar data the rest of the site uses.
ATP and WTA tournaments this week, Nov 2 - 8, 2026
