Gran Canaria becomes one of the venues for the best professional tennis with the celebration of the ATP eó Hotels Maspalomas Challenger, which will take place at the Club Conde Jackson Tennis Maspalomas in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, from November 27 to December 4.
It is an ATP Series 80, a competition that brings together some of the most outstanding emerging tennis players in the world. Being held in November, at the end of the year, its importance is greater, as all those players who need points to access major tournaments such as the Australian Open will come to Gran Canaria in search of improvement in their sports rankings. In addition, the week of November 28, when the final draw will begin, will be exclusive within the ATP calendar for Gran Canaria in Spanish territory.
Celebrating a tournament in the middle of winter in Gran Canaria is an important sports and tourist promotion, as it means exporting the climatic benefits of San Bartolomé de Tirajana as an ideal setting for playing outdoor tennis with pleasant and warm temperatures in the middle of December, while in the rest of Europe the practice of this sport outside indoor facilities is impossible.
In addition, thanks to the varied hotel and restaurant offer, professional athletes can come to Gran Canaria to train throughout the year. In addition, the first-class facilities of the clay courts of the Maspalomas Club, which have experienced notable improvements in the last two years and which, according to players and coaches, are the best clay courts in the Canary Islands, can successfully host events such as an ATP Challenger Series 80.
ATP eó Hotels Maspalomas Challenger.
San Bartolomé de Tirajana and specifically Maspalomas, its facilities, its accommodation facilities and the benefits of its climate capture all the attention for a week. The Eurosport channel will broadcast live two quarterfinals on Friday, December 2, starting at 10:00 a.m., the two semifinals on Saturday starting at 10:00 a.m., and the grand final on Sunday, December 4, at 11:00 a.m. More than 10 hours live from Maspalomas, with the image on the central court of a prominent digital thermometer that will show the warm local temperature in December to the rest of the world.
The event will have daily streaming broadcasts of all the matches through the prestigious ATP channel, as well as a monographic program on the Teledeporte channel, which includes a nationally televised program on TVE exclusively dedicated to the tournament and featuring images of Maspalomas and Gran Canaria.
The eó Hotels Maspalomas Challenger has the main sponsorship of the hotel chain eó Hotels & Resorts Gran Canaria and the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council through its sports department. It is sponsored by the Tourism Department of the Government of the Canary Islands through Promotur, the Gran Canaria Island Council through the Insular Institute of Sports and Tourism of Gran Canaria and the Spanish Tennis Federation.
Also co-sponsored by Mapfre, Wilson, Fisiotec, and Loype Eventos. Collaborating are the Canary Islands Tennis Federation, Orange, the Federation of Tennis of Gran Canaria, Coca-Cola, Dilo con Arroz, and Grupo Monpex.