WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the women's professional tennis circuit. The Athens Open is one of approximately 30 WTA 250 tournaments on the 2026 calendar.
About the tournament
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open WTA 250
Greece's first WTA Tour event in 35 years, returning to the city where the women's tour last played in 1990.
TierWTA 250WTA Tour level
Draw0Singles · 16 doubles teams
Dates11–19 JulSat–Sun · 9 days
Prize money$283,347Total commitment (USD)
Who we are
The WTA returns to Athens
The Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open is a WTA 250 professional tennis tournament, held at the Stadion Sports Center, located at the Olympic Tennis Center facilities in Athens. The event will be played outdoors on DecoTurf hard court, across three match courts. The Center Court will have a seating capacity of more than 8,000 spectators, while the two additional competition courts will accommodate over 3,000 tennis fans combined.
The singles competition will feature a 32-player main draw, including four wild card entries, alongside a 24-player qualifying draw and 16 pairs in the doubles main draw.
The Athens tournament replaced the Jiangxi Open on the 2026 calendar and runs the week after Wimbledon (11–19 July). Qualifying matches will be played on 11 and 12 July, with main-draw competition beginning on 13 July and the singles and doubles finals on Sunday, 19 July.
For Greek tennis it is the first WTA tour-level event since the Athens Trophy (1986–1990) — a 36-year gap, now closed.
A 36-year story, in four moments
Greek WTA tennis is a thin but specific thread. From the inaugural Athens Trophy in 1986, to the women's tour's quiet exit in 1990, to the men's revival of 2025, to the 2026 return — the tournament is part of a longer arc.
- 1986Athens Trophy
Inaugural WTA event at the Athens Lawn Tennis Club. Angeliki Kanellopoulou — Maria Sakkari's mother — reaches the final.
- 1990Quiet exit
After five editions, the Athens Trophy is dropped from the WTA calendar. No women's tour-level event will follow for 35 years.
- 2025Men's revival
The Hellenic Championship ATP 250 lands at OAKA in November — the same venue family. Djokovic wins the inaugural edition.
- 2026Athens Open
The WTA returns to Athens. Maria Sakkari headlines a new chapter for women's tennis in Greece.
Where
Stadion Sports Center
Inside the OAKA complex in Marousi: 18 tennis courts (4 covered), 11 padel courts and 3 pickleball lanes around a central pavilion. The WTA matches run on three designated courts. Outdoor DecoTurf hard — the same surface the US Open plays on.
- Location
- Marousi, Athens
- Surface
- Outdoor hard
- Tennis courts
- 18 hard courts
- Metro
- Eirini (Line 1)
Title sponsorvandapharma.com
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open
Athens Open is proudly supported by Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. as the title sponsor for the 2026 edition. Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of innovative therapies.
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