Kazakhstan to Host Its First-Ever ATP 500 Tennis Tournament in October

NUR-SULTAN – This yr, the Kazakh capital will host its first-ever Affiliation of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour 500 event on Oct. 9-10, introduced the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation’s (KTF) press service.  

ATP 250 event for male skilled tennis gamers in 2020 in Nur-Sultan. Photograph credit score: Kazakhstan Tennis Federation web site.

The ATP Tour 500, also referred to as the ATP World Tour 500 tournaments, ATP Worldwide Sequence Gold, and ATP Championship Sequence, represents the fourth highest tier of the annual males’s tennis event after the Grand Slams, ATP Finals, and the ATP Masters 1000.

The Astana Open, a event for skilled tennis gamers, will host the occasion on the Nationwide Tennis Heart in Nur-Sultan, which has 24 all-season tennis courts in a park space by the Yessil River. It’ll collect the world’s high gamers, together with Daniil Medvedev from Russia, who has confirmed his participation.  

“The ATP’s determination to method us because the precedence candidate to host the ATP Tour 500 event affirms that we selected the proper technique in utilizing international finest practices to develop tennis in Kazakhstan,” famous KTF President and Vice President of the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) Bulat Utemuratov. 

Beforehand, because of the COVID-19 pandemic the ATP Tour 500 was canceled in Beijing on the China Open, an annual males’s and ladies’s skilled tennis event in China. 

The ATP Tour 250, the bottom tier of annual males’s tennis tournaments, was organized by the Astana Open each in 2020 and 2021. Now, following a call of the ATP to relocate the China Open from Beijing to the Astana Open, the town will arrange the ATP Tour 500 for the primary time. 

“It’s noteworthy that this event is happening in a milestone yr for us: Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina was excellent in successful her first Wimbledon championship – a historic victory for the nation – and the KTF marks its thirtieth anniversary this yr as nicely,” added Utemuratov.

In July, Rybakina, a feminine tennis participant from Kazakhstan, received Wimbledon girls’s singles closing, the primary grand slam for her and for the nation.