The men's Belgian world team David Goffin and the 103rd-ranked Australian Alexei Poprin will play the opening match in a month. A total of 50 games will be played, it is not yet clear which other players will participate.
"It should be an alternative to what already exists," said Patrick Mouratoglou, one of the initiators, in a statement.
The game of professional tennis world tours, the men's ATP and the women's WTA, has so far been halted because of the new spread of the new corona virus.