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The Vanda Pharmaceuticals Mallorca Championships is an annual ATP 250 grass-court tournament held at the Mallorca Country Club in Santa Ponsa, on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Staged the week before Wimbledon and directed by Toni Nadal, it returned the ATP Tour to Mallorca in 2021 after an 18-year absence. The 2026 edition is the sixth staging of the men's event.

Tournament Schedule

Qualifying: Saturday, 20 June and Sunday, 21 June at 11 a.m.

Main Draw: Monday, 22 June to Friday, 26 June

Doubles Final: Saturday, 27 June at 12 p.m.

Singles Final: Saturday, 27 June, not before 3 p.m. CEST

Prize Money and Ranking Points

Total Prize Money: €612,620

Singles

Round	Prize Money	Ranking Points
Winner	€93,175	250
Finalist	€54,360	165
Semi-finalist	€31,955	100
Quarter-finalist	€18,515	50
Round of 16	€10,750	25
Round of 28	€6,570	0

History

The Mallorca Championships is one of the youngest events on the grass-court calendar, first held in 2021 when the ATP Tour returned to the island of Mallorca after an 18-year absence. Played on the outdoor grass of the Mallorca Country Club in Santa Ponsa and overseen by tournament director Toni Nadal, the uncle and former coach of Rafael Nadal, it has quickly become a popular final tune-up before Wimbledon. In a sign of how open the event has been, all five editions to date have produced a different champion: Daniil Medvedev won the inaugural title in 2021, followed by Stefanos Tsitsipas (2022), Christopher Eubanks (2023), Alejandro Tabilo (2024) and Tallon Griekspoor (2025). Medvedev, the 2021 winner, remains the highest-ranked champion at No. 2, while Eubanks (No. 77 in 2023) is the lowest-ranked and Tsitsipas (23 in 2022) the youngest. No Spanish player has yet won the title, and Roberto Bautista Agut holds the record for most match wins at the event with eight. The 2026 edition is the sixth staging of the tournament.

Tournament Data

Santa Ponsa sits on Mallorca's south-western coast, essentially at sea level beside the Mediterranean. The Mallorca Country Club's outdoor grass plays as a true, moderately quick surface in warm, dry conditions, and with the tournament falling in the last week before Wimbledon it offers players their final competitive grass-court reps before the All England Club.

These are the stats from recent years (2025 shown for reference, from Tennis Abstract):

Ace rate of about 10.2% of service points in 2025, on the lower side for grass (Stuttgart, Queen's and Halle all ran between 13 and 16% that year), reflecting Santa Ponsa's truer, less extreme bounce
Surface Speed Rating of 1.07 (Tennis Abstract, 2025), just above the tour average of 1.0 and almost identical to Wimbledon's 1.09, so quick but not lightning fast, and far livelier than the clay just gone by (Roland Garros 0.68, Rome 0.60)
That speed still rewards big first serves and flat, early ball-striking, with serve-plus-one patterns and confident net play paying off
Short average rallies and high service-hold rates, so matches often turn on a handful of return points and tiebreaks

Tournament Past Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Semi-finalist	Semi-finalist
2025	Tallon Griekspoor	Corentin Moutet	Felix Auger-Aliassime	Alex Michelsen
2024	Alejandro Tabilo	Sebastian Ofner	Gael Monfils	Paul Jubb
2023	Christopher Eubanks	Adrian Mannarino	Lloyd Harris	Yannick Hanfmann
2022	Stefanos Tsitsipas	Roberto Bautista Agut	Benjamin Bonzi	Antoine Bellier
2021	Daniil Medvedev	Sam Querrey	Pablo Carreno Busta	Adrian Mannarino

Note: the Mallorca Championships was first held in 2021, so the table covers all five editions of the event to date.

Weather

This week in Mallorca, conditions are hot, dry and sunny, classic early-summer Mediterranean weather for Santa Ponsa. Daytime highs sit around 30 to 32 C (86 to 90 F) through the tournament under clear skies, with essentially no rain in the forecast. The heat will keep the grass fast and the ball flying, putting a premium on serving and on staying fresh across long, sun-exposed days.

Key 2026 News and Storylines

The Big One: a wide-open week with Darderi out in front

With the bigger names of the grass swing rationing their pre-Wimbledon schedules, Mallorca offers a genuinely open draw led by in-form Italian Luciano Darderi, the top seed, alongside Spanish hope Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and American Frances Tiafoe. The presence of 2024 champion Alejandro Tabilo and 2022 winner Stefanos Tsitsipas adds pedigree, while wild cards Nick Kyrgios and Grigor Dimitrov bring star power and intrigue as both continue returns from long injury layoffs.

Absences and Notes

Alexander Bublik (entry-list top seed, World No. 10): OUT. The Kazakh headlined the original entry list but is not in the final draw, leaving Darderi to lead the seeding.
A compact pre-Wimbledon field: as is typical of the last week before a Grand Slam, several leading players are resting or playing elsewhere, leaving a 28-man draw with no overwhelming favourite.

Key Players In (or Status to Watch)

Luciano Darderi (top seed, Italy) is IN. The in-form Italian leads the field and, as one of the top four seeds, has a first-round bye before facing Yannick Hanfmann or Adolfo Daniel Vallejo.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (second seed, Spain) is IN. The home favourite could meet wild card Nick Kyrgios, a marquee early draw for the Spanish crowd.
Frances Tiafoe (third seed, USA) is IN, making his Santa Ponsa debut. He is in the same half as Darderi and opens against Ethan Quinn or Valentin Royer.
Alejandro Tabilo (fourth seed, Chile) is IN. The 2024 champion and first Chilean man to win an Open Era grass title returns to a court that suits his lefty game.
Ignacio Buse (fifth seed), Corentin Moutet (sixth seed) and Mariano Navone (seventh seed) are IN. Moutet, last year's runner-up, is a particular danger on grass.
Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) is IN, unseeded. The 2022 champion brings Grand Slam pedigree back to the draw.
Nick Kyrgios and Grigor Dimitrov (both wild cards) are IN. Kyrgios starts against a qualifier, while Dimitrov, playing his first tour-level event since Madrid in April, also opens against a qualifier as he continues his comeback.

With a compact 28-player field and no overwhelming favourite, Mallorca looks wide open. Darderi's form, Davidovich Fokina's home advantage, Tiafoe's firepower, Tabilo's title-winning know-how and Moutet's grass-court craft all point to a competitive week, with the wild-card returns of Kyrgios and Dimitrov adding extra spice on the road to Wimbledon.

Tournament Draws

Here are the links to the draws that you can check anytime to follow the latest updates and see which players advance through each round.

Summary

The Mallorca Championships is the Mediterranean bookend of the grass-court season, an ATP 250 played on quick, sun-warmed grass in Santa Ponsa in the final week before Wimbledon. The fast, low-bouncing courts and hot, dry conditions reward big serving and first-strike aggression, and the event's short history has already produced five different champions in five editions.

So, expect serve-led, aggressive grass-court tennis, with holds, tiebreaks and fine margins. With a 28-player draw and the top four seeds receiving byes, Darderi, Davidovich Fokina, Tiafoe and Tabilo have slightly smoother paths, but a deep pool of grass-court talent and the wild-card returns of Kyrgios and Dimitrov make for an unpredictable week.

With a wide-open field, a home favourite in Davidovich Fokina, a former champion in Tabilo and genuine wild-card intrigue, this should be a lively sixth edition in Santa Ponsa.

Did You Know?

Five editions, five different champions. Since the ATP returned to Mallorca in 2021, every edition has produced a new winner: Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Eubanks, Tabilo and Griekspoor, a run that says plenty about how open this grass-court week tends to be.

It is run by a Nadal. The tournament director is Toni Nadal, the uncle and long-time coach of 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal, who helped bring top-level men's tennis back to the island of Mallorca after an 18-year absence.