The popular Sarasota Open ATP Challenger begins on Sunday April 14 with the qualifying tournament, at Laurel Oak Country Club just off route 75 in Sarasota.
Here is this year’s tournament player list…
Hugo Dellien (defending champion)
Tennys Sandgren
Paolo Lorenzi
Krueger, Mitchell
Kwiatkowski, Thai-Son
Laaksonen, Henri
Lorenzi, Paolo
Moraing, Mats
Paul, Tommy
Polansky, Peter
Polmans, Marc
Redlicki, Michael
Sandgren, Tennys
Sels, Jelle
Smith, Roy
Song, Evan
Torpegaard, Mikael
Valkusz, Mate
Ward, James
Yevseyev, Denis
Aragone, JC
Blanch, Ulises
Clezar, Guilherme
Collarini, Andrea
Cuevas, Martin
Dellien, Hugo
Donaldson, Jared
Elias, Gastao
Fratangelo, Bjorn
Galan, Daniel
Giraldo Santiago
Giron Marcos
Gomez, Emilio
Harrison, Christian
Karlovskiy, Evgeny
Klahn, Bradley
Koepfer, Dominik
Ticket info
Ticket Rules and Regulations:
All tickets purchased are good for the entire day and night sessions. There is only one ticket per day per person for access to the tournament.
Ticket Types:
Centre Court Tickets: Centre Court Tickets allow access to a reserved seat in the stadium. Centre Court Tickets also allow access to all outside courts when in use.
Section A: Entire Section is shaded
Section B: Not shaded but very close to court-side
Section C : Ultra VIP (Sold Out)
*****All Tournament Access Package is available for $400 (April 15th- April 21st) All session packages allow free access to our VIP Lounge for the week. You get Centre Court Tickets and VIP Access for all 7 days of the tournament!
*****Finals Weekend Package $200 (April 19th – April 21st) Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals Tickets
VIP Tickets: Allow access to our court-side shaded Centre Court VIP Lounge which includes free food and beverage along with a court-side restaurant. VIP Tickets can be purchased separately from Centre Court Tickets but do not have a reserved seat in the VIP Lounge. VIP Tickets can be purchased at a discount when purchased together with a Centre Court reserved seat.
VIP Court-Side Tables : Allow access to our court-side shaded Centre Court VIP Lounge which includes free food and beverage. You have an exclusive table of (4) court-side under the shade with the best views in the stadium. Tables are $1250 per day or $5000 for the entire tournament. Enjoy the Sarasota Open in luxury. As an added bonus anyone who purchases a VIP Table for the week will have access to all events with James Blake on our opening weekend. You get comped access to the James Blake Clinic, Pro-Am and Exhibition! Party like a rock-star!
General Admission: GA tickets are available only Monday-Friday (April 15th-April 19th) and allow access only to the outer courts of the Sarasota Open. Daily GA tickets will be available at our box office at the stadium for $20 each. There is no Centre Court access with GA ticketing. Weekly GA passes are available for $50 (Great deal!). GA ticket holders can however purchase VIP Lounge Access which will allow Centre Court viewing from our VIP Lounge.
Yellow and White Players Party (Monday April 15th 7:30-9 PM)
Open the Sarasota Open with one of the hottest parties of the year. Schmooze with the Sarasota Open pros and have a great time with on-court activities in our stadium court!
Cost $50 per person
Wild Card Tournament Registration (Future Superstar?) Register and win our wild card tournament and gain a main draw wildcard to play against some of the top pros in the world on the ATP World Tour! How cool is that?
March 29-31st, 2019 Laurel Oak Country Club
Cost Singles $100 per person to enter. Doubles $125 per team
Need Assistance or want more detailed information: Call our box office at (941) 444-8039 where you can speak to a customer representative directly!
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Email : info@sarasotaopen.org
Dan Markowitz · April 10, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Until last week in Mexico when he reached the semis of Monterrey, Sandgren had lost 6 straight first-round matches after winning Auckland to start his year. He also lost first round to Tipsarevic in Houston.
A Tommy Paul sighting. When you think of Paul, Kozlov, Mmoh, Donaldson and Rubin, five guys who were supposed to have big-time, maybe top 30 potential, they’ve all been pretty massive disappointments. Donaldson and Mmoh have been hurt, but still they’re all going in the wrong direction.
Scoop Malinowski · April 10, 2019 at 6:28 pm
Dan, you forgot to mention Ernesto Escobedo, who one year ago was two points away from beating defending Houston champ Steve Johnson in the 1R but double faulted at 5-5 in the second set tiebreaker and Escobedo has done nothing ever since. Sebi Korda has also struggled since nearly beating Taifoe in NY Open 1R last year, losing in three sets. But he’s playing Futures all year and doing okay, ranking up to 400 something.
Dan Markowitz · April 10, 2019 at 7:16 pm
Korda has been a disappointment too at no. 515, but he’s only 18 so I’d give him a few years to see what happens. He’s certainly no Felix though that is true. Escobedo has been a big ugh, you’re right. He’s no. 294 now at 22. What is it?
It’d make for a great article. What has foiled these young Americans? With the exception of Tiafoe and Opelka, Fritz hasn’t exactly lit the rankings on file either at no. 58. After beating Izzie and Monfils in his first few tournaments of the year, he’s lost now four first-rounders in a row. And Opelka is only at no. 56, but he’s shown signs beating Schwartzman in Miami; they’ve all done abysmally poor.
Was it the high expectations to start with? Was it flaws in their game? Is it flaws in the American way of developing talent?
Scoop Malinowski · April 10, 2019 at 10:07 pm
Is it the USTA? Is it a negative to train in perfect state of the art environment with everything perfect, all needs taken care of, food, mental, fitness, perfect facilities maybe is not the best environment, maybe more struggle and more spartan facilities are more suited for the young unproven striving player?
Dan Markowitz · April 11, 2019 at 2:31 am
I don’t think it’s the USTA’s training facility that’s at fault. I just think you’re not getting high-level athletes in the US playing tennis. With the exception of Tiafoe who obviously is a top-flight athlete, because tennis is such an elitest sport in this country, you’re getting mostly the rich kids and the Russian and Asian immigrants playing the sport seriously and that’s not a big enough pool in which to propel a champion player to the top.
The women in the US have obviously had a wider pool as tennis is seen as THE SPORT in which a female player can make big money being a pro athlete. Think about it, American women have had far more success in the past 20 years than American men because American women can’t make a living for the most part at any other pro sport but tennis and basketball and much more at the former than the latter.
Scoop Malinowski · April 11, 2019 at 8:10 am
Some of the USTA coaches are suspect. The same recycled names keep working with the players and they don’t seem to get anything going. Whoever has been working with Escobedo
should be examined thoroughly. Escobedo was around top 50 and now he’s about to sink below 300. How can a young talent fall so heavily down? Who is to blame? Who is to blame for Kozlov going from 104 to 337 in two years? How can such talented young players fall so heavily? Tennis has always struggled to get the best athletes, this is nothing new. Tennis and boxing always seem to get the leftovers from baseball football basketball. It’s no different now.
Dan Markowitz · April 11, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Good points on Kozlov and Escobedo. What was the plan set for these two players? Who were their USTA coaches? Who dropped the ball because these two guys were projected top 50 players and Escobedo was already sniffing that number.
As far as talent is concerned, Cassius Clay was top-notch as was Ken Norton and George Foreman. Pete Sampras was pretty darn good as was Chip Hooper, Tim Mayotte, Stan Smith, Fritz Buehning and Roscoe Tanner. Athletically, these guys were far superior to what we’re seeing coming out today.
Scoop Malinowski · April 11, 2019 at 4:06 pm
Sorry Dan, Muhammad Ali was a lousy athlete outside of boxing, he couldn’t do any other sports, not even dance. I got this info from Leroy Neiman. I also know that Mike Tyson was a bad athlete in other sports, he tried basketball and his shots were putting dents in the backboard. He looks pretty decent in tennis in a video I saw of him hitting from the baseline. But I showed the video to Lennox Lewis and he asked, Where are his shots going? Into the back wall?