Vitas Gerulaitis Cup Explained

Vitas Gerulaitis Cup
Type:single
City:Vilnius
Country: Lithuania
Venue:SEB Arena
Surface:Hard (indoor)
Atp Category:Challenger 100
Atp Prize Money:€118,000 + H

The Vitas Gerulaitis Cup is a professional tennis tournament held in Vilnius, Lithuania since 2023.[1] The tournament will be held on indoor hard courts of the SEB Arena.[2]

Background

Vitas Gerulaitis was a well known Lithuanian American tennis player and a former

  1. 3 ATP
who achieved a status of an icon in Lithuania, having famously won the 1977 Australian Open title. With the approval of his family's estate, the organizers chose to name the event after him.[1]

This is not the first tennis event in Vilnius named after Gerulatis as previously ITF tour events organized in Vilnius also had carried the name of the "Vitas Gerulaitis Memorial Cup".[3] [4] Furthermore, the hosting arena had previously been known under the working title "Vitas Gerulaitis Memorial Tennis Centre" and 2004 was declared as the Vitas Gerulaitis' year by the Lithuanian Tennis Association.[5]

Past finals

Doubles

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: "Vitas Gerulaitis Cup": ATP "Challenger" turnyras Vilniuje pavadintas teniso legendos garbei . 4 January 2023 . Made in Vilnius . 17 December 2022 . lt.
  2. Web site: Thompson . Grant . From Tenerife To Thailand, Challenger Season Set To Begin . 4 January 2023 . 31 December 2022.
  3. News: Tenisininkai kovos dėl Lietuvos Prezidento taurės . 4 January 2023 . Delfi . 4 August 2004 . lt.
  4. News: V.Gerulaičio atminimo turnyrą laimėjo prancūzas . 4 January 2023 . Delfi . 18 August 2007 . lt.
  5. News: V.Gerulaičio jubiliejui - ne tik teniso turnyrai . 4 January 2023 . Delfi . 23 July 2004 . lt.