Acapulco’s Mexican Open begins with return of floating tennis court

The 32nd variation of the Mexican Open, besides dubbed ATP 500 Acapulco, kicked disconnected this play with an accumulation lucifer connected an eyecatching floating tribunal successful Acapulco Bay.

Professional men’s tennis players Frances Tiafoe and Holger Rune participated successful the match, the archetypal clip successful a decennary that the tourney has featured a floating accumulation lucifer successful Acapulco’s Pacific waters.

Tournament play began Monday successful the city’s GNP Arena with Round 1 of the Doubles championship. (Mexican Open)

Guerrero Tourism Minister Simón Quiñones Orozco noted that this benignant of lawsuit strengthens the state’s quality to beforehand Acapulco arsenic a high-level sporting lawsuit venue.

“We’re precise blessed […] and assured that we volition transcend each expectations for the Mexican Open,” Quiñones said. “The lawsuit is going well, and we volition pull the attraction of those who inactive person doubts astir coming to Acapulco.”

The edifice metropolis was severely damaged aft Hurricane Otis deed the country successful October 2023. 

“We privation to amusement that Acapulco is recovering,” Quiñones said. This year’s variation of the tourney — organized by Mextenis successful collaboration with the Guerrero authorities — promises innovative facilities.

The Mexican Open began Monday and volition tally done Saturday. It volition spot 5 of the Top 15 players successful the satellite among its competitors, among them No. 2-ranked Alexander Zverev and No. 4-ranked Taylor Fritz.

Local authorities estimation that the tourney volition bring an income of 550 cardinal pesos (US $26.8 million) to the state. 

With reports from Milenio