Mijas Grand Park Begins Final Tests With Major Pickleball Tournament

The eagerly awaited opening of Gran Parque de Mijas, group to go Andalusia’s largest municipality parkland astatine 270,000 quadrate metres, is undergoing its last tests and information trials, nan past measurement earlier its charismatic expansive inauguration. 

The tests took spot during nan 5th limb of nan 2025 Pickle Pro Tour, a master pickleball tourney which drew 146 athletes, Mijas Town Hall has announced.

Recognised by nan Royal Spanish Tennis Federation, nan Pickle Pro Tour had antecedently visited cities including Malaga, Barcelona, and Alcobendas. The Mijas arena kicked disconnected connected November 6–7 astatine nan Lew Hoad Tennis and Padel Club, hosting group-stage matches for nan Pro class and each Talent class games. The semifinals and finals past moved to nan Gran Parque de Mijas connected nan play of November 8–9, pinch matches played connected regularisation courts group up successful nan park’s amphitheater area.

Access during nan play was restricted to nan main entrance, pinch introduction constricted exclusively to nan sports zone. The council stressed that nary different areas of nan parkland would beryllium unfastened to nan public, successful statement pinch nan planned capacity-testing protocols.

The tests followed nan caller awarding of 3 basal contracts for gardening, maintenance, and security, clearing nan measurement for nan park’s afloat operation.

International Pickleball showdown

The tournament featured 3 property categories: complete 18 (with participants arsenic young arsenic 12–13 eligible without rate prizes and afloat eligibility from property 14), complete 50, and complete 60. Competitions included men’s and women’s singles, arsenic good arsenic men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles.

A full of 146 players from 11 nationalities competed, including 126 from Spain. International participants hail from Slovakia, nan United States, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Morocco, nan Netherlands, Poland, nan United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

The arena not only served arsenic a high-level sporting spectacle but besides arsenic nan last real-world accent trial for 1 of Andalusia’s astir eager nationalist infrastructure projects up of its expansive opening connected a fixed day that is still being kept nether wraps.