ATP Hamburg
 Hamburg European Open
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| ATP tour | |
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Hamburg Germany
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| First run | 1892 |
| category | Tour 500 |
| Tournament type | Free place tournament |
| Game surface | sand |
| draw | 32E / 16Q / 16D / 4QD |
| Prize money | US $ 1,718,170 |
| Center Court | 13,200 spectators |
| Website | Official website |
| As of January 2, 2019 | |
The Hamburg ATP tournament (officially the Hamburg European Open ) is a men's tennis tournament that is held every year at Hamburg's Rothenbaum as the International German Championships . The competition was part of the ATP Masters series until 2008 and was called the Hamburg Masters until then . In 2009 the tournament was downgraded by the ATP and has been part of the ATP Tour 500 since then . Speakers of the tournament saw its future endangered, as top-ranked players would hardly have any incentive to take part. Attempts by the DTB to legally challenge the downgrade were unsuccessful. The tournament that was previously played in May will now take place in July and has therefore lost its status as a warm-up tournament for the French Open . The Michael Stich tournament has been operated by Reichel Business Group GmbH since 2019 .
In addition to the men's tournament, women 's tournaments were also held at Rothenbaum between 1896 and 2002 and mixed competitions from 1906 to 1974.
history
Until World War II
The first "International German Tennis Championships" took place in Hamburg in 1892. Like the Open Championships of Australia , France , England and the US Open known today as the Grand Slam tournaments , they are among the oldest and most traditional tournaments in the world. As elsewhere, only men were initially eligible to participate.
The internationality of the tournament at the beginning only consisted in the fact that Austrian citizens were also allowed. The location chosen was the “Eisenbahnverein auf der Uhlenhorst” facility, which is now known as the “ Klipper THC Hamburg”. The first event on August 27, 1892 was overshadowed by the outbreak of cholera ; the tournament was interrupted and only found its first winner a month later, 19-year-old Walter Bonne .
In 1894 the tournament took place for the first time on the area of today's Rothenbaum ( The Club on the Alster ). The year 1897 saw the first really "open" German championships and the Englishman Hillyard as the winner. From 1898 to 1901 the tournament was held in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . The reason was the financing difficulties of the Hamburg ice skating clubs.
In 1902 the German Tennis Association was founded. In the same year, the German Open returned to today's venue, Hamburg's Rothenbaum. Until the First World War , the championships were held alternately with the local facility " Uhlenhorst ". For the first time, a men's double title was awarded. In 1906 a mixed title was awarded for the first time.
Between 1914 and 1919 Germany was excluded from international tennis. Since 1924 the facility at Rothenbaum has been the final location of the tournament. A year later Otto Froitzheim won his seventh title. To this day he is the record winner of the German Open. No championships were held between 1940 and 1947 because of the Second World War .
1948 to 1978
In 1949, the now 39-year-old Gottfried von Cramm won his sixth and final title. At the age of 45, he won his last double title in 1955. In 1956 the German Open took place for the 50th time. For this occasion, the Center Court was expanded to 5,000 seats. In 1964 the main square was expanded again and now held 8,000 spectators. In the same year there was a purely German final for the only time since World War II; Wilhelm Bungert beat Christian Kuhnke in four sentences.
In 1966, the German Open also entered the era of professional tennis. Since then, amateurs and professionals alike have been allowed to start. Official prize money has been paid since 1969 - the first time it was played for $ 17,500. Since Jack Kramer founded the Grand Prix in 1970 , the tournament was included in the Grand Prix tournaments from 1971 with Wimbledon, Paris, Forest Hills and Rome. For this purpose, the championships have been moved to June.
1979 to 2009
From 1979 the men's tournament was no longer organized by the traditional Hamburg tennis guild , but by the Hamburg tennis association .
In 1980 the facility at Rothenbaum was extensively expanded; a tournament house was built, the center court received an electronic scoreboard and was expanded to 9,000 seats. With 67,000 visitors, the men's event achieved a new attendance record in the same year. A year later, for the tournament's 75th anniversary, the prize pool was increased to $ 200,000.
In the 1980s, both tournaments experienced a boom due to the successes of Boris Becker , Steffi Graf and Michael Stich . In 1984 Becker competed in the men's tournament for the first time - he never won it. New attendance records were set every year, in 1989 a total of 102,000 visitors came to the facility; the center court was expanded to a capacity of 10,000 spectators. In the same year the DTB moved its office to the Rothenbaum plant.
In 1990 the prize money of the men's tournament exceeded the million mark for the first time. In 1993 Michael Stich became the first German winner of the tournament since Wilhelm Bungert . Until 1997 the facility was again massively expanded. For almost ten million euros, the Center Court received a capacity of 13,200 seats and a mobile roof. Last but not least, the enormous renovation costs put the German Tennis Association in a precarious financial situation. In addition, the end of the German tennis boom contributed to a sharp decline in visitor interest and the television money paid for the tournament.
In 1999 the men's tournament was included in the newly established Masters Series along with nine other tournaments , and in 2009 this status was revoked when it was included in the new ATP 500 Series . In 2003 Boris Becker was appointed chairman of the financially troubled tournament.
Since 2009
Michael Stich was the tournament director from 2009 to 2018 . In 2009 the tournament lost its title sponsor bet-at-home.com as a result of a decision by the administrative court . This loss, as well as the downgrade of the tournament by the ATP to the third category in 2009, plunged the tournament into an uncertain future.
In September 2010 the European Court of Justice overturned the judgment of the administrative court and from 2011 bet-at-home.com became the title sponsor of the German Open again. In November 2015, bet-at-home.com announced that it would not extend the contract, which would expire at the end of the year.
The Michael Stich tournament has been operated by Reichel Business Group GmbH since 2019.
Previous winners
singles
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hambruger Rothenbaum loses Masters status. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post , August 6, 2008, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Rothenbaum loses the Masters status. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , July 2, 2007, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Rainer Grünberg: "80 percent of the time there will be another tournament in 2010". In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, July 27, 2009, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ bet-at-home.com is the new title sponsor at Rothenbaum. In: presseportal.de. September 16, 2009, accessed August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The tournament at Rothenbaum needs a new title sponsor. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, November 27, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Official website
- Tournament profile on ATP website (English)
- Hamburg: cradle of German tennis. In: ndr.de. July 18, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
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