Open Sopra Steria de Lyon

What Open Sopra Steria de Lyon does

Open Sopra Steria de Lyon is an annual international men's professional tennis tournament held in Lyon, France, operating since 2016 on the ATP Challenger Tour at the Challenger 100 tier. It is the 4th largest French tournament played on clay courts and is structured around a single recurring event each year rather than a multi-product portfolio. The property is organized under the title sponsorship and operational umbrella of Sopra Steria, the French technology company that has backed the tournament since its inception and runs the Full Ace Challenge CSR initiative, under which €50 is donated to a charitable cause for every ace scored. The event targets tennis enthusiasts and sports fans in the Lyon region, with on-site attendance as the primary distribution channel and secondary visibility through ATP Challenger Tour media rights. Operations are run by a lean team of approximately seven people, led by co-directors Lionel Roux and Benoît Dupré, who have held the role since the inaugural 2016 edition. The 2024 edition was won by Hugo Gaston, continuing a documented lineage that includes Steve Darcis (2016), Félix Auger-Aliassime (2017, 2018), Corentin Moutet (2019, 2022), and Pablo Cuevas (2021). The 2026 edition is being positioned as the tournament's 10th-anniversary milestone.

Name

Open Sopra Steria de Lyon

Legal name

Open Sopra Steria de Lyon

Website

https://opensoprasteriadelyon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Open Sopra Steria de Lyon is an annual ATP Challenger 100 men's tennis tournament held in Lyon, France, organized under Sopra Steria's title sponsorship since 2016 and serving local tennis fans as the 4th largest French clay-court event.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Tennis Tournament / Sports Event Management

NAICS

Spectator Sports (71121)

akta.pro primary industry

Individual Sports Events (Tennis, Golf, Boxing/MMA, Athletics) (MPAGAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Tennis Leagues & Team Competitions (MPAKAAAJ)

Keywords

• Professional tennis tournament
• ATP Challenger Tour
• Clay court tennis
• Sports event management
• Tennis entertainment

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Open Sopra Steria de Lyon is an annual ATP Challenger Tour 100 men's professional tennis tournament held in Lyon, France since 2016, played on clay courts. It is the 4th largest French clay court tournament and features both Top 100 ATP players and emerging young talents, creating generational matchups. The event is organized by Sopra Steria and includes the Full Ace Challenge CSR initiative, through which Sopra Steria donates €50 for each ace scored to a charitable cause.

Product overview

Open Sopra Steria de Lyon is an annual ATP Challenger Tour 100 tennis tournament held in Lyon, France. Celebrating its 10th edition in 2026, the event is the 4th largest French clay court tournament, featuring top-ranked ATP players and rising young talents competing on red clay courts. The tournament operates as a single-event sports property rather than a product portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Brands

• Full Ace Challenge: CSR initiative where Sopra Steria donates 50 euros for each ace scored during the tournament to a charitable cause.

Products and services

• Open Sopra Steria de Lyon – ATP Challenger Tour 100 An annual international men's professional tennis tournament on clay courts, ATP Challenger Tour 100 category, held in Lyon, France since 2016. It features Top 100 world-ranked players and emerging young talents and serves sports fans in the Lyon region attending in person.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Sopra SteriacoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2016Sopra Steria is the title sponsor of the Open Sopra Steria de Lyon tournament. The sponsorship includes the 'Full Ace Challenge' CSR initiative where Sopra Steria donates €50 for each ace scored during the tournament to a charitable cause. The partnership has been active since the tournament's inception in 2016.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Open du Pays d'Aix (Aix-en-Provence): An ATP Challenger tournament held in Aix-en-Provence, France. Closely comparable in tier (Challenger), geography (Southern France), season (clay swing), and target player pool as the Open Sopra Steria de Lyon.
• Open de Bordeaux: Annual men's professional tennis tournament held in Bordeaux, France. Comparable as another France-based annual tennis event competing in the same broader domestic tennis ecosystem and sponsor marketplace.
• Open 13 Provence: An annual professional men's tennis tournament held in Marseille, France, organized as an ATP Tour event. Directly comparable as a France-based annual tennis tournament competing for similar player fields, sponsor pools, and French sports audiences, though at a higher (ATP Tour) tier.
• Open de Nice Côte d'Azur: ATP Challenger tournament held annually in Nice, France. Directly comparable ATP Challenger-level clay/hard event on the same French circuit, targeting similar fields of rising and Top 100 players.
• Moselle Open: ATP Tour indoor hard-court tournament held annually in Metz, France. Comparable as another French professional men's tennis event targeting similar sponsor brands, broadcast deals, and French tennis fan base, with comparable but tiered scheduling in the European indoor swing.
• Teréga Open Pau-Pyrénées: ATP Challenger 100 tournament held in Pau, France. Highly comparable in tier (Challenger 100), title-sponsor naming convention, and clay-court positioning within the French tennis calendar.

Broad incumbents

• Roland-Garros (FFT): France's Grand Slam clay-court tournament, operated by the Fédération Française de Tennis. Comparable as the dominant French clay-court tennis event; it sets the ceiling on player, sponsor, and audience economics that the Open Sopra Steria de Lyon operates beneath.

Regional players

• Internazionali di Tennis Città di Trieste: ATP Challenger tournament held in Trieste, Italy. Comparable as a same-tier Challenger event on the European clay swing, illustrating the regional competitive set the Lyon event is benchmarked against, though geographically distinct.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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