• Tournament director Álvaro Falla highlighted the attendance, which approached 75,000 during the week
• He pointed out that the tournament has areas of opportunity to continue improving in the coming years.

Acapulco, March 1, 2025.- Alvaro Falla, director of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presented by HSBC, pointed out, prior to this Saturday’s finals, that the tournament and the fans contribute to the recovery of Acapulco, has areas of opportunity to continue improving in the coming years and considered that the tournament ends on a high point after an intense week.

“We are ending on a very high point and today we can communicate to you the high attendance, massive, that we have had from the public,” said Falla at the closing press conference of the tournament.

He considered that the tournament “is starting to return to normalcy” after the hurricanes of 2023 and 2024 “and that makes us very happy and satisfied: to see the amount of attendance we have had in terms of the stadium, the spectators, the tennis fans, how they are returning and understanding that this is the way to contribute to the recovery of Acapulco.”

Falla expects that in 2026 and 2027 the tournament will follow this trend and estimated that “during the week there was an attendance close to 75 thousand people and it is a figure that will be 15% or 20% below the total of what the tournament can host, but it is a great figure, compared to last year after Hurricane Otis,” he acknowledged. 

The director of the Acapulco ATP 500 also evaluated that the tournament leaves an economic revenue of approximately 650 million pesos for the port of Guerrero “and that is a return to economic normality”, he emphasized. 

He also said that during the week there was a 95% hotel occupancy rate, a situation he considered “very important” for the tourist reactivation of Acapulco. “Clearly, tourists are coming to the hotels and are occupying them almost entirely,” he said.

He recalled that the tournament generates employment and benefits more than 11 thousand families, mainly from Acapulco and other municipalities of Guerrero, “more than 90% of our team is local”.

On the sports side, Falla was pleased with Saturday’s finals, in the case of doubles Christian Harrison and Evan King, from the United States, play against Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul, from France, while in singles he highlighted the duel between Tomas Machac, from the Czech Republic, and Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina, from Spain.

“These two players arrive at an incredible level, neither of them has won an ATP tournament to date, which is going to be an important novelty in their professional career and we are going to experience it here in Acapulco,” he commented.

He also qualified as very good the participation of the Mexican Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez, of whom he said “he has a great future and will learn a lot from this experience, on Monday he will appear in the 238th place of the ATP ranking”, he said. 

In a self-critical way, Falla said that the tournament always finds areas of opportunity and improvement “I can say that we have four or five clear things that we have to improve and change in the tournament. It is our job to start doing it. I believe that we are leaving with a rating of eight out of 10 and we hope that in 2026, with the changes, we will reach a rating of nine”, he said.