Austrian Open Kitzbühel
The ATP Tournament Kitzbühel ( officially bet-at -home Cup Kitzbühel, Austrian Open Kitzbühel before and Generali Open) is an ATP World Tour 250 tournament, which is held every year since 1945 in Kitzbuehel on sand. Between 1999 and 2008 the tournament was part of the ATP International Series Gold, then after the Masters Series, the second-highest tournament category of ATP Tour, after the tournament was only part of the ATP International Series or any successor Series ATP World Tour 250 were in May 2009 in Kitzbühel held the "Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzbühel ", which took place earlier in Pörtschach and St. Pölten.
2010, the tournament in Kitzbühel was replaced by the tournament in Nice. Nevertheless, in August 2010, the 66th Austrian Open took place, but as part of the ATP Challenger Tour. A year later, the tournament was however carried out again as ATP World Tour 250 tournament in Kitzbühel, you took it the license of the tournament in Warsaw.
Record winner in the Open Era, the Argentinean Guillermo Vilas with four titles. Tournament Director is Alex Antonitsch.
- 2.1 Single
- 2.2 double
History
Tournament tradition since 1895
The Kitzbühel Tennis Tournament was first held in 1895, ie 100 years before the implementation of the first Alpine countries Cup 1945. Shortly after the war ended, this Kitzbuehel tournament was lifted out of the baptism in 2013 and finds place for the 69th time.
Cup Alpine countries and international tennis championships
In the Alpine countries Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria's tip could be compared with Central European players. Often international matches were preceded by and it could enter up to 1956 well-known players in the winners list. An internal dispute among the tennis players in the fall of 1956 led to the establishment of tennis clubs Kitzbühel, because up to this time hosted the tennis section of the Kitzbühel Alps Ice Sports Clubs Country Cup. The Kitzbühel Tennis player chose Hans Zwerger its president. The young tennis club has sought from the beginning, the event Alpenländer Cup to expand and close the gap on top tournaments. Already in the early years of the KTC, the first world-class players met in Kitzbühel. This development was also honored by the Austrian Tennis Federation and in 1959 the International Austrian Championships were first held in Kitzbühel. The club also brought professional groups to Kitzbühel.
Head Cup
The introduction of the open tournaments with big cash prizes broke the opportunities of the club, was so won with Head Austria, Austria's first tennis racket producers, a financially strong sponsor. In the winter of 1970 /71 contract was signed and in 1971 was from the Alpine countries ' Cup Head Cup Kitzbühel. The first prize at that time was $ 25,000. The Head Cup has established itself as Fixveranstaltung on the Grand Prix tour then.
Generali Open
In 1990, professional players and organizers founded the ATP Tour, Kitzbühel was from the first minute with its own license to it. 1991 Kitzbühel Tennis Club entered into a first ten -year partnership with the Romanian entrepreneur and former player Ion Ţiriac under President Klaus Lackner and tournament director Hellmuth Dieter chef. In 1994, the European insurance group Generali was the main and title sponsor. 1997 decided the organizers to increase the prize to 535,000 dollars and so on increased 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. 1997 Tournament Kitzbühel ATP was chosen by the professionals at the best World Series tournament. In 1998, the license for this tournament was sold to the ATP. In turn, an even higher Championship Series license was rented. To get to the already completely redesigned ATP Tour 2000, the maximum number of points in the new rating ATP Champions Race, 1999, the prize money has been increased by a further $ 200,000. At the tournament in 2002, the prize was one million dollars and the ATP professionals chose the event after 1997 again to the best organized tournament in the category International Series Gold.
Back to the roots and bet-at -home Cup
Prior to 2008, gold was played in the category International Series. The major reforms in the ATP ( fewer tournaments, even higher prize money ), as well as the non- possession of a separate license and the associated dependencies of license owners, resulted in the difficult economic years, to give the show a new direction. On 21 December 2009, the KTC received a Challenger license for the first week of August. In the same year the first edition of the Challenger tournament in 2010, the Kitzbühel Tennis Club received an ATP World Tour 250 license again. As title sponsor of the tournament, the international betting company bet -at- home.com has been obtained. Tournament Director was the former Austrian Davis Cup player Alex Antonitsch.