Pacific Coast Championships

Pacific Coast Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1889
Abolished2013
Editions125
LocationSan Jose, California
United States
VenueSAP Center at San Jose
CategoryGrand Prix
(1970–1989)
ATP World Series
(1990–1999)
ATP International Series
(2000–2008)
ATP World Tour 250 series
(2009–2013)
SurfaceClay / outdoors
Hard / outdoors/indoors
Draw32S / 32Q / 16D
Prize money$623,730 (2013)

The Pacific Coast Championships were an annual men's tennis tournament founded as the Pacific States Championships or the Pacific Coast Sectional Championships also known as the Pacific Coast International Championships. It was the second-oldest ongoing tennis tournament in the United States and ran from 1889 until 2013.[1] Its final edition, known by its sponsored name SAP Open, was an ATP World Tour 250 series event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour and played indoors on a hard court surface at the SAP Center at San Jose.

  1. ^ Jenkins, Bruce. "So long California: SAP Open leaving a lot of history behind". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013.