The Vienna Open (currently sponsored by
Erste Bank and called the Erste Bank Open) is a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
indoor hard courts. Originally an event of the
Grand Prix tennis circuit (1974–1989), it is currently part of the
ATP World Tour 500 series of the
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour. It is held annually at the
Wiener Stadthalle, in
Vienna
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, Austria, since 1974.
The event was also known as the ''Stadthalle Open'', and as the ''
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-Grand Prix'' from 1976 to 1985, as the ''
CA-TennisTrophy'' from 1986 to 2003, as the ''
BA-CA-TennisTrophy'' from 2004 to 2007 and as the ''
Bank Austria TennisTrophy'' from 2008 to 2010, before being renamed to ''
Erste Bank Open'' in 2011.
Austria's most successful tennis player,
Thomas Muster, never won the Vienna Open, but was a runner-up on three occasions (1988, 1993, 1995), and a semi-finalist on another four occasions (1987, 1989, 1990, 1994). Three Austrian players have won the singles title at the Vienna Open:
Horst Skoff in 1988,
Jürgen Melzer in both 2009 and 2010, and
Dominic Thiem in 2019.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
Notelist
References
External links
*
ATP World Tour tournament profile
{{ATP World Series tournaments
Hard court tennis tournaments
Indoor tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Austria