Vitas Gerulaitis Cup

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Vitas Gerulaitis Cup
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded2023;2 years ago (2023)
Location Vilnius
Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania
Venue SEB Arena
Surface Hard (indoor)
Website website
ATP Tour
Category Challenger 100
Prize money€118,000 + H

The Vitas Gerulaitis Cup was a professional tennis tournament held in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2023. [1] The event was held on the indoor hardcourts of the SEB Arena. [2]

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Background

Vitas Gerulaitis was a well known Lithuanian American tennis player and a former #3 ATP who achieved a status of an icon in Lithuania, having famously won the 1977 Australian Open title. With the approval of his family's estate, the organizers chose to name the event after him. [1]

This is not the first tennis event in Vilnius named after Gerulatis as previously ITF tour events organized in Vilnius also had carried the name of the "Vitas Gerulaitis Memorial Cup". [3] [4] Furthermore, the hosting arena had previously been known under the working title "Vitas Gerulaitis Memorial Tennis Centre" and year 2004 was declared as the Vitas Gerulaitis' year by the Lithuanian Tennis Association. [5]

Past finals

Singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2023 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Liam Broady Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Zdeněk Kolář 6–4, 6–4

Doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
2023 Flag placeholder.svg Ivan Liutarevich
Flag of Ukraine.svg Vladyslav Manafov 		Flag of India.svg Arjun Kadhe
Flag of Germany.svg Daniel Masur 		6–0, 6–2

See also

References

  1. 1 2 ""Vitas Gerulaitis Cup": ATP "Challenger" turnyras Vilniuje pavadintas teniso legendos garbei". Made in Vilnius (in Lithuanian). 17 December 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Grant (31 December 2022). "From Tenerife To Thailand, Challenger Season Set To Begin" . Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Tenisininkai kovos dėl Lietuvos Prezidento taurės". Delfi (in Lithuanian). 4 August 2004. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "V.Gerulaičio atminimo turnyrą laimėjo prancūzas". Delfi (in Lithuanian). 18 August 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "V.Gerulaičio jubiliejui - ne tik teniso turnyrai". Delfi (in Lithuanian). 23 July 2004. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
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