ATP Antwerp

European Open
ATP tour
venue	Antwerp Belgium
First run	1982
category	Tour 250
Tournament type	Indoor tournament
Game surface	Hard court
draw	28E / 16Q / 16D
Prize money	US $ 635,750
Center Court	4,500 spectators
Website	Official website
Status: October 20, 2019

The ATP tournament in Antwerp (officially European Open ; previously European Champions' Championship or European Community Championship ) is a men's tennis tournament that was first held in Antwerp from 1982 to 1998 .

description

Until 1992, the tournament was held as an invitation tournament in autumn or winter, so you did not receive any world ranking points. As part of an exhibtion tournament, invitations were mainly issued to players who had won a tournament in Europe during the year. From 1992 the tournament was part of the ATP Tour , from 1996 part of the ATP Championship Series or its successor, the ATP International Series Gold . The games were played indoors on carpeted floors, in 1997 and 1998 on hard courts. In 2016 it became known that in October of the same year another tournament would take place in Antwerp, which is part of the ATP World Tour 250 and will replace the tournament in Valencia .

In addition to the prize money, another prize could be won in Antwerp until 1998: If a player won the tournament three times within five years, he would receive a life-size gold tennis racket adorned with 1,420 diamonds and valued at 1,000,000 US dollars was appreciated. In 1985 Ivan Lendl won his third title in four years and was the only player to take a Gold Raquet with him in addition to the US $ 200,000 prize money . Lendl is also the record winner of the tournament with five titles; In the period when the event was held as an ATP tournament, Pete Sampras was the most successful with two titles.

Winners list

singles

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
↓ ATP World Tour ↓
2019	Andy Murray	Stan Wawrinka	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
2018	Kyle Edmund	Gaël Monfils	3: 6, 7: 6 2 , 7: 6 4
2017	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Diego Schwartzman	6: 3, 7: 5
2016	Richard Gasquet	Diego Schwartzman	7: 6 4 , 6: 1
1999–2015: not held
1998	Greg Rusedski	Marc Rosset	7: 6 3 , 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
1997	Marc Rosset	Tim Henman	6: 2, 7: 5, 6: 4
1996	Michael Stich	Goran Ivanišević	6: 3, 6: 2, 7: 6 5
1995	not carried out
1994	Pete Sampras (2)	Magnus Larsson	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
1993	Pete Sampras (1)	Magnus Gustafsson	6: 1, 6: 4
1992	Richard Krajicek	Mark Woodforde	6: 2, 6: 2
↓ Invitation tournament ↓
1991	Aaron Krickstein	Boris Becker	without a fight
1990	Goran Ivanišević	Henri Leconte	6: 2, 7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 4: 6, 6: 1
1989	Ivan Lendl (5)	Miloslav Mečíř	6: 2, 6: 2, 1: 6, 6: 4
1988	John McEnroe (3)	Andrei Chesnokov	6: 1, 7: 5, 6: 2
1987	Ivan Lendl (4)	Miloslav Mečíř	5: 7, 6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 3
1986	John McEnroe (2)	Miloslav Mečíř	6: 3, 1: 6, 7: 6 5 , 5: 7, 6: 2
1985	Ivan Lendl (3)	John McEnroe	1: 6, 7: 6 5 , 6: 2, 6: 2
1984	Ivan Lendl (2)	Järryd is different	6: 1, 6: 2, 6: 2
1983	John McEnroe (1)	Gene Mayer	6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 4
1982	Ivan Lendl (1)	John McEnroe	3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3

Double

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2019	Kevin Krawietz Andreas Mies	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
2018	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin (2)	Marcelo demoliner Santiago González	6: 4, 7: 5
2017	Scott Lipsky Divij Sharan	Santiago González Julio Peralta	6: 4, 2: 6, [10: 5]
2016	Daniel Nestor Édouard Roger-Vasselin (1)	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6: 4, 6: 4
1999–2015: not held
1998	Wayne Ferreira Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig	6: 3, 7: 5
1997	David Adams Olivier Delaître	Sandon Stolle Cyril Suk	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 1
1996	Jonas Björkman (2) Nicklas Kulti	Menno Oosting Yevgeny Kafelnikow	6: 4, 6: 4
1995	not carried out
1994	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman (1)	Hendrik Jan Davids Sébastien Lareau	4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
1993	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	Wayne Ferreira Javier Sánchez	6: 3, 7: 6
1992	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	Patrick McEnroe Jared Palmer	6: 2, 6: 2

Web links and sources

• ATP tournament profile (English)
• Official website (English, French, Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ brusselsdiplomatic: tennis will be back soon to Antwerp. (No longer available online.) In: BrusselsDiplomatic. July 5, 2016, archived from the original on August 7, 2016 ; accessed on July 30, 2016 .