WTA German Open
The WTA Berlin ( last official: Qatar Telecom German Open) was a clay court tennis tournament in the WTA Tour, which was held from 1979 to 2008 in Berlin.
The German Women's Open were held simultaneously with the German Open in Hamburg Before 1979 the men.
History
Since 1979, the women's tournament was held in Berlin. Early 1980s were able to enter with Bettina Bunge and Claudia Kohde - Kilsch two German in the winners' lists. Starting in 1986, dominated by Steffi Graf another German the tournament. Within eleven years, they won the tournament nine times and thus became the winner of the event record.
Similar to the Lord tournament in Hamburg is also the ladies tournament was a boom and was after the Grand Slam tournaments of the most important tennis tournaments of the ladies. The plant at Hundekehlesee was therefore expanded the mid-1990s. The Centre Court holds since up to 7,000 spectators. Its capacity can be variably adjusted by means of mechanically extendable stand parts to need.
Following the resignation of Steffi Graf 's interest went to this event with visitors and broadcasters sharply, which resulted in major financial problems in the DTB. After the tournament operated in deficit for several years, he sold the rights to the 2004 event at the Qatar Tennis Federation, the Tennis Federation of Qatar. Although the tournament was renamed continue as " German Championship ", but was not organized by the German Association.
The name of the tournament moved because of unmet expectations sponsors since 1997 several times. From 1997 to 2002 the tournament was Euro Card Ladies German Open, 2003 MasterCard German Open 2004 Ladies German Open, 2005 Qatar TOTAL German Open and 2006 Qatar Telecom German Open.
The tournament took place in 2008 for the time being rather than the last time. The Qatari consortium sold the rights back to the WTA. 2009, the tournament has been replaced by the Warsaw Open, which in turn were replaced by the Open de Bruxelles 2011.
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