The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) will be held in Vilnius on October 16-23 this year. Challenger 80 series tournament "Vilnius Open by kevin.". The prize fund of the tournament, which will be held in the expanded "SEB Arena", will consist of more than 45 thousand. euros. The winner of this tournament will receive 80 ATP ranking points and a bonus of 6190 euros.
"Vilnius Open by kevin" will be the first ATP Challenger series tournament not only in Lithuania, but also in the Baltic States.
Ramūnas Grušas, head of "SEB Arena", hopes to see not only all the most capable Lithuanian tennis players, but also a good ten ATP top XNUMX players at the tournament.
"Preliminarily, I can say that we will see Ričardas Berankis, Edas Butvilas, Vilias Gaubas, Ainiai Sabaliauskas at the tournament in Vilnius. For our young tennis players, this can be one of the first experiences at this level of competition. It is also nice that "Vilnius Open by kevin" will be held in autumn, in October. At that time of year, a significant number of tennis players are deciding on submissions to the Australian Open. Therefore, ATP Challenger series tournaments are often more capable in terms of composition in autumn", says R. Grušas.
The financial technology company "kevin." became the main sponsor of the ATP Challenger Series tournament in Vilnius.
"Since the establishment of the company, tennis has organically become an integral part of our identity, it has always been one of the main activities that unites and unites the "kevin" team. Currently, more than three dozen members of our team play tennis regularly, and we also hold an annual staff tennis tournament. We believe in this sport and we are happy that we can contribute to the first such tennis tournament in the Baltic States", says Pavel Sokolovas, "kevin." executive director and co-founder.
The matches of the tournament will be held in the newly built part of the "SEB Arena", and the most important duels will be held in the central court, where stands for 1500 seats have been installed for spectators. Tickets for "Vilnius Open by kevin" are already being distributed tickets.lt.
In the fall of this year, SEB Arena will host another big tennis event event. In mid-September, the Ukrainian and Lithuanian tennis national teams will play their Davis Cup home matches here. September 15-16 the Ukrainians will play against the Hungarian national team in the match of the first group, and on September 17-18 the second group match between Lithuanian and Egyptian tennis players will take place.
