The Mallorca Championships is a professional
tennis tournament on the
ATP Tour. Classified as an
ATP 250
The ATP 250 tournaments (previously known as the ''ATP World Tour 250'' tournaments, ''ATP International Series'', and ''ATP World Series'') are the lowest tier of annual men's tennis tournaments on the main ATP Tour, after the four Grand Slam tou ...
tournament, the event is annually held at the outdoor
grass courts
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament.
Although grass c ...
of Mallorca Country Club in
Santa Ponsa,
Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean.
The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...
, Spain in June, a week prior to
Wimbledon Championships.
The event was initially founded as a tournament on the
WTA Tour. In June 2014, the
Women's Tennis Association (WTA) announced that a new grass court tennis tournament would be organized in Mallorca, beginning in 2016, as the WTA Tour would expand the grass court swing between the
French Open
The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...
and Wimbledon from two weeks to three. The new tennis complex would have five natural grass courts, with construction and maintenance contributions from the
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC). Classified as a
WTA International event, the women's tournament lasted for three years on the calendar and ended after the last edition in June 2019, with the event's sanction and International classification transferred to the
Birmingham Classic for the following year.
In September 2019, the AELTC announced that they would invest in several new grass tennis tournaments for the ATP Tour and WTA Tour. Among the new investments included a new men's event in Mallorca for a debut in 2020, marking a return of the ATP to Mallorca after 18 years, and be organized on the existing tennis complex. The new event would be headed by
Toni Nadal and be held during the grass swing's third and final week. After the
COVID-19 pandemic forced the postponement of the relaunched ATP tournament, it held its inaugural edition in 2021.
Past results
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
See also
*
List of tennis tournaments
References
{{WTA International tournaments
WTA Tour
Grass court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Spain
Recurring sporting events established in 2016
2016 establishments in the Balearic Islands
Defunct tennis tournaments in Spain