These are the tournaments with which tennis will return to Europe

The world of tennis is slowly recovering activity after the breakdown of the ATP and WTA circuit due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tennis players will have to wait at least until July 31 to return to the official competition but they have decided to participate in other alternative tournaments to take shape. Here we review some of the tournaments that will be held in Europe in this return of tennis.

Equelite Academy 25th Anniversary Tournament

The Equelite Academy – JC Ferrero de Villena (Alicante) will host the first tennis tournament in Spain from July 1 to 5. Tennis players of the stature of Pablo Carreño, Alejandro Davidovich, Alex de Miñaur, Joao Sousa and the young Spanish promise Carlos Alcaraz, who trains in these facilities with Juan Carlos Ferrero.

MAPFRE League

The tournament organized by the RFET will cover part of the Spanish geography and will serve as preparation for some of the most outstanding rackets in Spanish tennis. The tournament will start in Lleida from July 10 to 12 and will also visit Madrid (July 17-19), Valencia (July 24-26) and Avilés (July 31 – August 2). The MAPFRE League will have eight Spanish tennis players who appear in the Top-100 of the ATP ranking as Roberto Bautista, Pablo Carreño, Albert Ramos, Fernando Verdasco, Pablo Andújar, Feliciano López, Alejandro Davidovich and Roberto Carballés.

Adria Tour

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has organized this charity tournament that will tour various cities in the Balkans and that will bring together outstanding ATP circuit rackets. The Adria Tour will start el June 13 and 14 in Belgrade (Serbia) and then visit the city of Zadar (Croatia) on the 20 and 21 of that month, a city to be determined of Montenegro (June 27 and 28) to end in Bosnia-Herzegovina with tournaments in Banja Luka (3-4 July) and Sarajevo (5 July). In addition to Novak Djokovic, tennis players of the stature of Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem or Grigor Dimitrov.

Ultimate Tennis Showdown

This tournament will be held from June 13 in Nice at the Patrick Mouratoglou Academy, coach of Serena Williams. In this exhibition tennis players such as David Goffin, Lucas Pouille, Benoit Paire, Alexei Popyrin, Dustin Brown, Felix Auger-Aliasisme and Fabio Fognini.

Czech Republic

Several players already compete from this week in an exhibition tournament, but the big event will take place from June 13-15 with a charity event and the presence of Petra Kvitova or Karolina Pliskova among other players.

Eastern European Championship

Alejandro Davidovich He will participate in a charity event organized by Serbian ex-tennis player Janko Tipsarevic and which will begin on June 15 in Belgrade. The competition will be mixed and Davidovich is one of the already confirmed players, along with a Balkan cast that includes Ana Bogdan, Borna Coric, Filip Krajinovic, Mirza Basic, Miomir Kecmanovic, Laslo Djere, Viktor Troicki, Damir Dzumhur, Irina Bara, Tamara Zidansek and Dusan Lajovic, among others, and which will feature other Europeans such as the Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, the controversial Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili and the Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis. In addition, the participation of the world number one, Novak Djokovic is not ruled out

Italian Championship

Italy will hold a tournament with its main tennis players from next June 22 and in which the presence of Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini, the two most outstanding rackets in the country.

Berlin

German tennis aces Alexander Zverev and Julia Görges will participate in two small tournaments that will take place in Berlin in July, announced Edwin Weindorfer, organizer of the events, which will bring together other international tennis players. “Six ladies and six gentlemen will participate in each of the events,” Weindorfer said, adding that they will play on the lawn of the Steffi Graf stadium from July 13 to 15 and in a hangar at the former Tempelhof airport from July 17 to 19. .

London

Andy Murray will return to compete next June in a tournament organized by his brother Jamie in London. The championship, which will have an all-against-all format, will be held at the Roehampton National Tennis Center, on hard court, and will have the Murray brothers, Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans, among others, as guests. It will be played from June 23 to 28. This tournament joins the initiative of the LTA (British Tennis Federation), which announced this week the creation of four tournaments for the month of July, aimed at the 16 best British players.