Tenerife will host three important professional tennis tournaments on the ATP Challenger circuit between January and February 2023. Specifically, from 15 to 22 January, an ATP Challenger 100 will take place, while from 29 January to 5 February and from 5 to 12 February, two ATP Challenger 75s will be played.
The tournaments will take place at the Abama Tennis Academy, within The Ritz-Carlton, Abama, in the southwest of Tenerife. The organisers have already confirmed the participation for the first tournament, consisting of a line-up of top players. Among them, is the semi-finalist of the Challenger held last year on the island, the Spaniard Fernando Verdasco (former world number 7, and current 124th).
The list of participants also includes the tournament’s top seed, Moldovan Radu Albot (103). The young Italian Francesco Passaro (119) and the German Yannick Hanfmann (128) have also confirmed their presence, as well as Matteo Arnaldi (134), Luca Nardi (135), Borna Gojo (144), Manuel Guinard (146), Jan-Lennard Struff (150), Alexander Shevchenko (154) and the Spaniard Carlos Taberner (165). The two ATP Challenger 75 events from 29 January to 5 February, will offer two opportunities to enjoy professional tennis in a destination where it is possible to practice all kinds of outdoor sports in the middle of winter, when the average temperature is 20ºC.
Undoubtedly, one of Tenerife’s greatest attractions is the possibility of doing outdoor activities at any time of the year. Thanks to its weather conditions and the diversity of landscapes, the island offers a wide variety of activities to ensure that visitors truly make their visit to Tenerife worth it. These include tennis, golf, paragliding, cycling, hiking, windsurfing and kitesurfing, among others.
The island is characterised by its first-class tourist offer. Both in terms of experiences, with the possibility of activities such as whale watching, enjoying a refreshing drink at a beach club or a treatment at a spa of excellence, as well as tasting its gastronomy, between tradition and the avant-garde, with seven Michelin stars. Another favourite for many travellers in Tenerife is shopping.
The island has several shopping centres, some of which are very exclusive, boasting fashion, perfume and jewellery shops and boutiques where visitors can spend hours. What’s more, with the benefit of more competitive prices than in the rest of Spain and mainland Europe – local IGIC is applied instead of VAT, with significantly lower rates.
Tenerife has an extraordinary range of premium accommodation, including The Ritz-Carlton, Abama. But there are also other exclusive four and five-star hotels, resorts, villas with exclusive swimming pools, charming boutique hotels and rural houses surrounded by spectacular landscapes.
After hosting a WTA 250 and an ATP Challenger in 2021, 2023 will see the island will once again take centre stage in the tennis world, with the hosting of these three events on the early season calendar, which will be played on the renowned academy’s ‘flexipave’ surface.
