Which kind of professional tennis tournament is the Pilot Pen?”
Daily and Weeklong Hot Happenings Thursday, August 20, 2009 6:15 PM ET Listed below are daily and weeklong events set to take place during the 2009 Pilot Pen! Special Events: New Haven Food & Wine Festival Wednesday, August 26, Session 6, 12:00-2:00pm & Wednesday, August 26, Session 7, 5:00-7:30pm Pilot Pen Tennis serves up a showcase of New Haven’s international and eclectic restaurants and a wine tasting. Guests will also have a chance to meet one of America’s best-known chefs, cookbook authors and cooking teachers, Jacques Pepin! Box seat tickets included. Each session sold separately. Click here to purchase tickets for Session 6. Vineyard Vines Ladies Day Luncheon & Fashion Show hosted by Island Time Thursday, August 27, Session 8, 11:30am-1:00pm Enjoy lunch and a fashion show in a private hospitality area prior to the start of the afternoon’s matches. Includes a box seat for session 8, gift bag and door prizes. Click here to purchase an individual ticket. Click here to purchase a
EVENT: Pilot Pen Tennis presented by Schick – An Olympus US Open Series Event TOURNAMENT: Qualifying: Friday, August 21 – Saturday, August 22, 2009 MAIN DRAW: Sunday, August 23 – Saturday, August 29, 2009 SITE: Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, 45 Yale Avenue, New Haven, CT 06515 THE OLYMPUS US OPEN SERIES: The Olympus US Open Series, launched in 2004, is the cohesive, six-week summer tennis season of 9 North American tournaments linked to the US Open. The Series has produced record attendance, TV viewership and live broadcast hours for the sport. In total, the Olympus US Open Series events – including the US Open – generated a record 1.6 million attendees, 128 million TV viewers and over 28 million website visits making it the stongest summertime property in sports. Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova are the defending Olympus US Open Series champions. TELEVISION: 16 hours of national coverage on CBS and ESPN2. International coverage will reach more than 100 million potential viewers i
The Pilot Pen Tennis (currently known as the Pilot Pen Tennis presented by Schick for sponsorship reasons) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. It is held annually at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, just before the fourth and last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open.
