Pilot Pen Tennis (played between 1990 and 1998 as the Volvo International) is a professional tennis tournament held in New Haven, Connecticut. The Pilot Pen Tennis tickets tournament takes place just before the beginning of the fourth and last Grand Slam tournament of the season, the U.S. Open Pilot Pen Tennis tickets and is played on the same surface, DecoTurf cushioned acrylic. The men's event was first contested in 1985 in Stratton Mountain, Vermont. In 1990 was moved to Pilot Pen Tennis tickets New Haven. The women's event began as the U.S. Womens Hardcourts in San Antonio, Texas in 1988. In 1993, the event was Pilot Pen Tennis tickets moved to Stratton Mountain, Vermont where it remained for two years. Off the calendar in 1995 & 1996, the event returned to Pilot Pen Tennis tickets the WTA Tour in 1997 at a new location, Atlanta, Georgia. It was moved to its present location of New Haven in 1998. From 1999 to 2004 Pilot Pen Tennis tickets the New Haven site did not host a men's tournament. In 2005 the men's event returned to New Haven, where it runs in Pilot Pen Tennis tickets conjunction with a WTA Tour women's draw. The Pilot Pen is also a part of the U.S. Open Series, a six-week summer tennis season of 10 major Pilot Pen Tennis tickets North American tournaments linked to the U.S. Open. The tournament takes place every year in mid August. In 2007, the men's winner Pilot Pen Tennis tickets was James Blake and the women's winner was Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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