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The Mallorca Championships 2026: World-Class Tennis on Our Doorstep — and We Were Right There
The Vanda Pharmaceuticals Mallorca Championships is one of the most important grass-court tournaments in professional tennis — the final ATP warm-up before Wimbledon, held right here in Santa Ponsa at the Santa Ponsa Tennis Academy. Main draw play begins today, Monday 22 June, with matches from midday. And one of our team members was already there yesterday to watch the practice sessions.
The photo at the top of this post was taken by her on Sunday — metres from where Nick Kyrgios was hitting on the practice courts. Her ticket cost €20. That is the thing about this tournament that residents of the southwest sometimes forget: world-class professional tennis, right here, accessible to anyone.
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The Vanda Pharmaceuticals Mallorca Championships 2026
The tournament runs from 21 to 27 June 2026 at the Mallorca Country Club in Santa Ponsa. It is an ATP 250 event — the same circuit tier as tournaments in Rotterdam, Adelaide and Eastbourne — and it attracts a field of top professional players using Mallorca as their final grass-court preparation before Wimbledon begins on 30 June.
Tournament director is Toni Nadal, uncle of Rafael Nadal and one of the most respected figures in Spanish tennis. The prize fund for 2026 is €612,620. The singles winner takes home €93,175 and 250 ATP ranking points.
This is the sixth edition of the Mallorca Championships as an ATP event. Previous singles champions include Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Christopher Eubanks, Alejandro Tabilo and Tallon Griekspoor, who won the 2025 title defeating Corentin Moutet in the final.
Who Is Playing
The 2026 field is headlined by Luciano Darderi and Frances Tiafoe as top seeds, alongside Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Ignacio Buse and Stefanos Tsitsipas, who entered the draw as a late entry. Grigor Dimitrov received a singles wildcard and will be one of the most watched players in the early rounds.
Nick Kyrgios is at the tournament on a doubles wildcard — which is how he came to be practising at the Santa Ponsa courts on Sunday when our team member was there. At world ranking 899 following injury absences, Kyrgios is using Mallorca to build match fitness ahead of Wimbledon. Watching him hit in practice, even from a stand costing €20 to enter, is to understand why his game at full fitness remains one of the most watchable in professional tennis.
The Schedule from Today
Main draw singles play begins today, Monday 22 June, with matches starting at midday at the Santa Ponsa Tennis Academy. The schedule continues through Thursday 25 June for the final round-robin matches, with the doubles final on Saturday 27 June from noon and the singles final on Saturday 27 June, not before 3pm.
Tickets are available from the tournament website at mallorcachampionships.com. Day passes for the early rounds are accessible — our team member paid €20 for Sunday's practice session access, and main draw day tickets are modestly priced for what is genuinely ATP Tour professional tennis.
Why This Matters for Santa Ponsa
The Mallorca Championships is one of a small number of ATP Tour events held at a location that is genuinely part of the day-to-day life of a residential community. The Mallorca Country Club and Santa Ponsa Tennis Academy sit within the Santa Ponsa urbanisation — residents can walk to the courts. The tournament brings a week of international sporting attention to the southwest, with players, coaches, media and tennis fans from across Europe staying in the area.
For residents who have not yet attended, this week is the week to go. The early rounds of an ATP 250 are an intimate experience — you are close to the court, close to the players, and watching tennis at a level that simply does not exist elsewhere in the Balearics. The €20 practice session ticket our team member used on Sunday may be one of the best value sporting experiences available anywhere on the island this summer.
Living Where the Tournament Is
One of the things that makes the southwest of Mallorca genuinely distinctive as a place to live — rather than simply visit — is the concentration of world-class sport and events within a short distance of home. The Mallorca Championships is on this week. The Copa del Rey MAPFRE sailing regatta is in Palma from 1 August. Golf Santa Ponsa I, which hosted the European Tour seven times, is minutes away.
If you are thinking about what day-to-day life in Santa Ponsa actually looks like, weeks like this one are part of the answer.
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