Almaty Open

The Almaty Open is an ATP-250 hard court tennis competition, which is played in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Date: 14 - 20 October
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Hard
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Venue: Almaty Arena
Players: 28 players
ATP Prize Money: $1,036,700
ATP Points: 250 for champion
Draw: TBA

The Almaty Open will take place at the Almaty Arena. This event will replace the Astana Open, which took place in Kazakhstan between 2020 and 2023, in the calendar. The first-ever Almaty Open will take place in October in the 2024 season.

This relocation from Astana to Almaty comes as the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation and the ATP wanted an elite-level competition to take place where Kazakh tennis began. Speaking of the move, the President of the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation, Bulat Utemuratov, said the shift in location was to honor Kazakh tennis’s history.

"Almaty deserves to take the stage of holding the ATP 250 series tournament because it is in this city where Kazakh tennis began to develop. Almaty Open promises to become not only a large-scale sporting event but also will allow one to feel the special atmosphere of festivity, energy and competitive spirit on the site of Almaty Arena."

Previously, when the competition was known as the Astana Open, some of the greatest-ever men’s players participated. Most notably, when the tournament was temporarily upgraded to an ATP 500 event in 2022, Novak Djokovic won the title after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.

Other former winners of the event include John Millman, Kwon Soon-woo, and Adrian Mannarino. In 2023, Mannarino reached his second-ever final at the competition and went one step further by beating Sebastian Korda in the final.

Alongside the 32-player singles draw, a 16-team doubles competition will take place at the Almaty Open starting in 2024. Some former winners of the doubles event, which took place in Astana, include the former number-one Croatian pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.

In 2022, the duo defeated the French team of Adrian Mannarino and Fabrice Martin. Other previous doubles champions in the Kazakhstan-based event include the all-US pairing Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow. Belgian duo Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen were the first-ever doubles title winners in 2020.

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