El ‘Euskadi Professional Tennis Circuit’ It starts this Sunday with several players from the ATP and WTA rankings in a total of five tournaments: three men’s, the Open Laukariz, the Open Kiroleta and the Getxo International Tennis Tournament, by RC Jolaseta; and two women’s, that of RC Jolaseta, which combines the two categories, and the Araba World Tennis Tour – Grupo Amutio de la Pe�a Vitoriana. All of them are part of the ‘$25,000’ circuit, except for the Alav�s, which is a ‘$100,000’. He Access will be free to the public and the matches will be broadcast in streaming through the International Tennis Federation (ITF) website and club platforms.
Laukariz will open the circuit (June 16 to 22) on the four clay courts. The pre-registration highlights Pedro Vives, runner-up last year in Laukariz and finalist last week in the M25 C�rdoba; the Extremaduran Alberto Barroso (378 ATP) with six titles on the international circuit and who will return to Laukariz wanting to get rid of the thorn in his side a year ago, when he was eliminated in the first round) and the Czech Dominik Palan (397).
He Hotel Carlton has been the scene of a presentation in which there has also been room for what will come later. Between June 24 and June 29 it will arrive a classic like Bakio’s Open Kiroleta, which this June will celebrate its 39th edition. Frenchman Robin Bertrand (303 ATP), one of the most promising tennis players in French tennis, will be seeded number 1. His compatriot Lucas Poullain (326), runner-up, also stands out. in Bakio last year, the Belgian Michael Geerts (327) or the Australian, James McCabe (342). We must not forget the Czech Dominik Palan who will try to repeat his 2022 victory, or the Burgos P�rez Sanz, who won in Bakio in 2014.
The Continuity will come with Jolaseta, who will have a double challenge between June 30 and July 7. The Getxo International Tennis Tournament is one of the few championships of this rank at an international level that combines the women’s and men’s championships. To do this, it will use six courts, three open and three semi-covered, all of them dirt. They will compete almost 150 matches, with tennis players of more than 25 nationalities and 5 continents. The finals will be played on Saturday, July 7 in the morning and consecutively. The champions, in addition to taking a good number of ATP/WTA points, will also receive the traditional trophy, a replica of the Aixerrota mill.
The circuit will travel to Vitoria to face the Vitoriana Pe�a Tournamentwhich made the jump to ‘$100,000’ in 2023. The icing on the cake of this “Basque Tour” will be the fifth edition of the Araba World Tennis Tour Women which will be held from July 15 to 21. The gasteiztarra club has taken an important leap in the ranks by organizing one of the most powerful women’s tournaments in the state, after joining the calendar of the 100,000 dollars in distribution of prizes. In addition, the international federation has awarded it a star in recognition of good organization and evaluation of the players themselves, which places the Alava event among the 22 best ITF women’s tournaments in the world.
During the In recent years there have been many tennis players who have made the jump to the Top 100′ of the international ranking after being seen in the Basque tournaments. The most representative cases of this last decade are those of Roberto Bautista (best ATP ranking 9), Alejandro Davidovich (21), Joao Sousa (28), Jaume Munar (52), Pedro Martínez (40), Fernando Verdasco (7), Bernab� Zapata (37), Pedro Cach�n (54), Carlos Taberner (85) or Arthur Rinderknech (42) The same thing happens in the women’s category, with the recent presences of the world tops, Garbi�e Muguruza and Paula Badosa, or the Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu. Without forgetting retired tennis players like Carla Su�rez, Vivi Ruano, Gala Le�no Anabel Medin
