The German Open (currently known as the Grass Court Championships Berlin or bett1open) is a Women's Tennis Association, WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women played in West Berlin, West Germany (until 1990), then Berlin, Germany from 1991 to 2008 following German reunification, reunification. Held since 1896, it was one of the oldest tournaments for women. Until 1978 the tournament was held in Hamburg together with the German Open Tennis Championships, men's tournament. From 1988, it was classified on the WTA Tour as a WTA Tier I Events, Tier I tournament.
After an absence of more than a decade, the tournament was announced to return to the WTA Tour, WTA calendar for the 2020 WTA Tour, 2020 season. However, the event was cancelled in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it would be due to return in 2021. The new event is classified as a WTA Premier tournaments, Premier-level tournament and serve as a warm-up event towards the The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Championships, having switched its surface from clay to grass.
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.
Tournament names:
* 1971–1979: ''German Open''
* 1980: No tournament
* 1981–1988: ''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–present: ''bett1open''
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
See also
* German Open Tennis Championships
* WTA Hamburg
References
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Tennis tournaments in Germany
Clay court tennis tournaments
WTA Tour, German
WTA German Open,
1896 establishments in Germany
2008 disestablishments in Germany
Women in Berlin