The Thionville SPOT will host the 1st edition of the Thionville Opena new tournament ATP 75. Led by the company All In, it will take place from March 2 to 9, 2025. Thierry ASCIONE and Jo-Wilfried TSONGA were present on Friday, November 8, 2024 at the Moselle Open to present the outlines of this event which aspires to quickly become a reference in Moselle .
The Thionville Open will bring together players ranked between 85th and 200th place world with 12,000 spectators expected at SPOT in Thionville, compared to around 50,000 for the Moselle Open. “It will be an ATP 75 because we have to start with a 75, but we are ambitious people,” specifies Thierry ASCIONE.
He presents the project to our microphone:
The first 2 editions of the tournament will take place in Thionville, with the support of the municipality of Hettange-Grande which will host 2 training courts. Then, the Thionville Open should take place every other year in Esch-sur-Alzetteif the discussions are successful.
Pierre CUNY, president of the Portes de France urban community, specifies that the arrival of the Thionville Open is accompanied by a strong desire to develop the sport in the north of Moselle:
The councilor also hopes to attract a stage of the Tour de France by playing the European card.
What links between the Moselle Open and the Thionville Open?
Majority shareholder of the Moselle Open and organizer of the future Thionville Open, the company All In invests in long-term projects in Moselle.
The arrival of a second tournament in Thionville does not suggest an abandonment of the Moselle Open. On the contrary, both events are intended to coexist in the service of tennis French. Jo-Wilfried TSONGA looks back on the group's ambition:
For an ATP 75 tournament, the organizers must request authorization to renew it each year. To sustain the event, it is therefore essential to make the 1st edition a success and convince of the potential of the Thionville Open.
Yves HENRY, president of the SAS Open de Moselle, indicates that the new Thionville tournament is resolutely turning towards its neighbors with a area of influence including Luxembourg, Wallonia and Rhineland-Palatinate. The positioning of the competition in a European territory where 60,000 people cross the border every day offers unprecedented development opportunities, as he explains to us:
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