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Wikipedia / German Open (WTA)

The Berlin Tennis Open or the German Open (previously the ecotrans Ladies Open, bett1open) is an annual WTA Tour professional tennis tournament, held in Berlin, Germany, and is a WTA 500 event (since 2021). It was played in West Berlin, West Germany (from 1979 until 1990), following reunification in Berlin from 1991 to 2008 on clay, and since 2021 on grass.

Held since 1896, it is one of the oldest tournaments for women. Until 1978 the tournament was held in Hamburg together with the men's tournament. From 1988 until 2008, it was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament. Since 2021, it is classed as a WTA 500 tournament.

After an absence of more than a decade, the tournament was announced to return to the WTA calendar for the 2020 season as the Grass Court Championships Berlin. However, the event was cancelled in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it returned in 2021 as the bett1open. The new event is classified as a 500-level tournament and serves as a warm-up event towards the Wimbledon Championships, having switched its surface from clay to grass.

Since 2021, there is a WTA tour tournament in Hamburg, the Hamburg Open, but it is played on outdoor clay courts and has nothing to do with the former tournament that is now held in Berlin.

History

Past champions of the tournament include former world number ones Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Martina Hingis, Amélie Mauresmo, Justine Henin, Ana Ivanovic and Dinara Safina.

Past finals

Singles

Doubles

Tournament names

  • 1896–1927:German Championships

  • 1928–1948:German International Championships

  • 1949–1970:West German Championships

  • 1971–1979: German Open

  • 1980: No tournament

  • 1981–1988: Fila German Open

  • 1989–1990: Lufthansa Cup

  • 1991–1992: Lufthansa Cup German Open

  • 1993–2000: German Open

  • 2001–2002: Eurocard German Open

  • 2003: MasterCard German Open

  • 2004: Ladies German Open

  • 2005: Qatar Total German Open

  • 2006–2008: Qatar Telecom German Open

  • 2021–2023: bett1open

  • 2024: ecotrans Ladies Open

  • 2025: Berlin Tennis Open by Hylo

  • 2026: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Berlin Tennis Open

See also

References