PLAYER FIELD ANNOUNCED FOR DELRAY BEACH ATP CHAMPIONS TOUR EVENT
Annual Holiday Ticket Promotion Offers 20% Discount
DELRAY BEACH, FL: Mardy Fish, James Blake and Vince Spadea all played for the United States in the same Davis Cup era, but the trio never played on the same team.
That will change during the 2017 Delray Beach Open’s eighth annual ATP Champions Tour event when the three former top Americans will form Team USA to compete against an International team made up of former Australian Open finalist Fernando Gonzalez (CHI), four-time Grand Slam semifinalist Sebastien Grosjean (FRA) and former French Open finalist Mikael Pernfors (SWE).
The 10-day Delray Beach Open is scheduled for Feb. 17 – 26, with the ATP Champions Tour event (Feb. 17-19) played over the President’s Day weekend followed by the ATP World Tour event (Feb. 20-26). The tournament is celebrating its 25th event in 2017.
For the tennis fan in your life, tickets to the Delray Beach Open are an ideal gift during the holiday season. The tournament just launched its annual Holiday ticket promotion featuring ALL box and reserved (sections A – J) seats at 20% off. The discount is also applicable to the tournament’s celebratory-priced $25.25 box and reserved seats for all ATP Champions Tour sessions, commemorating the event’s 25th edition.
Fans have three ways to buy the holiday promotional tickets. Most convenient is purchasing online (www.YellowTennisBall.com) with a printing feature that delivers instant gifts in the form of home-printed tickets.
Tickets can also be secured from the on-site box office (30 NW 1st Avenue in Delray Beach) or over the phone (561-330-6000 ext.1).
The holiday promotion ends January 1, 2016 at 12:00 midnight.
All three Team USA players – Fish, Blake and Spadea – have reached a Delray Beach Open final while competing on the ATP World Tour. Fish won the 2009 title, Blake reached back-to-back finals in 2007 and 2008, and Spadea reached the 2004 final.
Fish, who also played in the 2003 Delray final, is the only top-seeded champion in DBO history. On the international side, Grosjean reached the 1999 Delray Beach Open final while Gonzalez and Pernfors never played in a Delray Beach Open while on the ATP World Tour.
Blake and Fish were Top 10 players during their ATP World Tour careers — Blake No. 4 in 2006 and No. 10 in 2008 while Fish was world No. 8 for 2011. Spadea twice reached the year-end Top 20 rankings during his career.
Gonzalez finished in the world’s Top 10 in both 2006 (No.10) and 2007 (No.7), also reached the French Open semifinals in 2009, and won Olympic bronze (Athens/2004) and silver (Beijing/2008) medals. He was a two-time US Open quarterfinalist (2002 & 2004). Grosjean was world No. 6 in 2001.
The ATP World Tour field already includes world No. 3 Milos Raonic, 2009 US Open champion and 2011 Delray Beach Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, world No. 20 and 2015 Delray Beach Open champion Ivo Karlovic, world No. 23 and No. 2 American Jack Sock, and the Bryan Brothers, the top doubles team of all-time.
Complete tournament information can be found on the www.YellowTennisBall.com website.
To view this press release online please go to 2017 ATP Champions Lineup & Holiday Ticket Offer.
NAGY WINS “SURVIVOR” PRE-QUALIFYING EVENT
ATP Ranking Has Already Reached No. 415
DELRAY BEACH, FL: Peter Nagy, with a career-high No. 415 in ATP world ranking, has reached his first ATP World Tour qualifying tournament by winning the Delray Beach Open’s “Survivor” pre-qualifying tournament.
The top-seeded Nagy defeated No. 2 seed Ty Trombetta 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 to win the wild card into the 16-player Delray Beach Open singles qualifying tournament. Nagy won five matches over four days to top the 93-player field.
“It feels aweseome and it’s amazing to be in my first qualifying of an ATP World Tour event,†said Nagy. “I can’t wait to do some damage.â€
Trombetta, of Hallandale, also reached the finals of a 2009 “Survivor” event.
With two wins in the Delray Beach Open qualifying tournament, Nagy, 24, can reach his first ATP World Tour main draw as the top four finishers in the qualifying tournament move on to the $575,000 Delray Beach Open main event.
The former Texas A & M – Corpus Christi star and native Hungarian turned pro last year, and has enjoyed tremendous success on the Futures level. He won his first Futures-level tournament in Slovakia in 2015, and then turned in a stellar 2016 season. After reaching two Futures finals in Croatia in June, he won the next week in Poland, and then reached another pair of Futures finals in Hungary in September.
As a college senior, Nagy led his team to a 17-8 record and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament.
The 93-player “Survivor” pre-qualifying tournament attracted local club players, club pros, current college players, nationally-ranked juniors and players currently on the ATP World Tour.
Dan Markowitz · November 28, 2016 at 2:40 am
Geez, Spadea in Delray. You’ve got to love it.