ATP Kitzbühel
 Generali Open Kitzbühel
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Kitzbühel Austria
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| First run | 1945 |
| category | Tour 250 |
| Tournament type | Free place tournament |
| Game surface | sand |
| draw | 28E / 16Q / 16D |
| Prize money | € 524,340 |
| Center Court | 6,400 spectators |
| Website | Official website |
| As of July 27, 2019 | |
The ATP tournament in Kitzbuhel (officially Generali Open , previously bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel and Austrian Open Kitzbuhel ) is a tennis tournament of the ATP World Tour 250 series , which takes place annually since 1945 in Kitzbuehel is played on sand. Between 1999 and 2008 it was part of the ATP International Series Gold , at that time the second highest tournament category on the ATP Tour after the Masters Series . After that, the tournament was only part of the ATP International Series or its successor series, the ATP World Tour 250 . In May 2009 the "Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzbühel" was held in Kitzbühel, which had previously taken place in Pörtschach and St. Pölten .
In 2010 the tournament in Kitzbühel was replaced by the ATP tournament in Nice . Nevertheless, the 66th Austrian Open took place in August 2010, but as part of the ATP Challenger Tour . A year later, however, the tournament was held again as part of the ATP World Tour 250 in Kitzbühel; the license for the Warsaw ATP tournament was taken over .
The record winner in the Open Era is the Argentine Guillermo Vilas with four titles. The tournament director is Alex Antonitsch .
history
Tournament tradition (since 1895)
The Kitzbühel tennis tournament took place for the first time in 1895, 50 years before the first Alpine Cup in 1945. This Kitzbühel tournament, which took place for the 73rd time in 2017, was launched shortly after the end of the war.
Alpine Country Cup and international tennis championships (1945–1970)
In the Alpine Country Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria’s top was able to compare with Central European players. Country matches were often set up first and well-known players were able to enter the list of winners by 1956. An internal dispute among tennis players in autumn 1956 led to the founding of the Kitzbühel tennis club; because up until this point in time, the tennis section of the Kitzbühel ice sports club had organized the Alpine Country Cup. The Kitzbühel tennis players elected Hans Zwerger as their president. Right from the start, the young tennis club endeavored to further expand the Alpenländerpokal event and to connect to top tournaments. The first world-class players met in Kitzbühel as early as the early years of the KTC. This development was also honored by the Austrian Tennis Association and in 1959 the International Austrian Championships took place in Kitzbühel for the first time. The club also brought professional groups to Kitzbühel.
Head Cup (1971–1993)
The introduction of open tournaments with high cash prizes exceeded the club's possibilities, so that Head Austria , Austria's first tennis racket manufacturer, became a financially strong sponsor. The contract was signed in the winter of 1970/71 and in 1971 the Alpenländer Cup became the Head Cup Kitzbühel . The first prize money back then was 25,000 US dollars. The Head Cup was then able to establish itself as a fixed event on the Grand Prix Tour.
Generali Open (1994-2008)
When professional players and organizers founded the ATP Tour in 1990 , Kitzbühel was there from the first minute with its own license. In 1991 the Kitzbühel Tennis Club under President Klaus Lackner and Tournament Director Hellmuth Dieter Küchenmeister entered into an initially ten-year partnership with the Romanian entrepreneur and ex-player Ion Țiriac . In 1994 the European insurance company Generali became the main and title sponsor. In 1997, the organizer decided to increase the prize money to 535,000 US dollars, thereby increasing the importance of this tournament within the ATP. This increase not only brought higher profits for the players, but also more points for the ATP world rankings. In 1997 the Kitzbühel tournament was named the best World Series tournament by the ATP professionals. In 1998 the license for this tournament was sold to the ATP. In return, an even higher Championship Series license was rented. In order to get the maximum number of points in the new ATP Champions Race rating for the completely redesigned ATP Tour 2000 , the prize money was increased by a further 200,000 US dollars in 1999. At the 2002 tournament, the prize money was one million US dollars and the ATP professionals voted the event again as the best-organized tournament after 1997 - this time in the higher and now renamed International Series Gold category . This category was played until 2008.
Back to the roots (2009 – today)
The major reforms in the ATP (fewer tournaments, even higher prize money) as well as the lack of a separate license and the associated dependencies on license holders led to the tournament being given a new direction during the tense economic years. After the tournament played a category lower in 2009, the KTC received a Challenger license on December 21, 2009 for the first week of August 2010 . In the same year the Challenger tournament was held for the first time, the Kitzbühel tennis club again received a license for the ATP World Tour 250 . The international betting provider bet-at-home.com was won as the tournament's title sponsor . In 2015 the sponsor changed, the tournament is now called Generali Open again, just like in the nineties. The tournament director is the former Austrian Davis Cup player Alex Antonitsch .
The stadium in Kitzbühel, which was built in 1991, is to be renovated by 2019, at a cost of 5.2 million euros.
List of winners since 1945
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Web links
- Official website of the tournament
- Tournament profile on ATP homepage (English)
- The Tennis Base: Tournaments: Alpenland Ch.Kitzbühel (English)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Nice to Host New ATP World Tour Tournament In 2010; Replaces Kitzbuhel. In: atpworldtour.com. ATP, November 27, 2009, archived from the original on November 30, 2009 ; accessed on August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Across the updraft, decline and resurrection. In: generaliopen.com. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
- ^ Kitzbühel: Stadium renovation by 2019. In: tirol.orf.at. August 1, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
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