Gerry Weber Open

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Gerry Weber Open
ATP Tour
Location	Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Venue	Gerry Weber Stadion
Category	International Series
Surface	Grass / Outdoors
Draw	32S/32Q/16D
Prize Money	$800,000
Website	gerryweber-open.de

The Gerry Weber Open is a tennis tournament held in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Held since 1993, the tournament is played on four outdoor grass courts and is a part of the International Series Tournaments on the ATP Tour schedule.

The Centre Court (the Gerry Weber Stadion) has 12,300 seats and a retractable roof which can be closed in 88 seconds so that tennis games can continue with a closed roof when it begins to rain. The stadium is heated and also used for other sport events (handball, basketball, volleyball & boxing) and concerts.

Swiss World Number One Roger Federer has won the Halle tournament four times (2003-06) and holds the record for most singles titles. Federer also won them in consecutive years, and every time Federer won the title, he went on to win the title at the Wimbledon Championships. Federer withdrew from the 2007 tournament, citing fatigue from his loss to second-ranked Rafael Nadal in the French Open men's final.

1 Past finals
- 1.1 Singles
- 1.2 Doubles Champions
2 External links

[edit] Past finals

[edit] Singles

Year	Champion	Finalists	Score
1993	Henri Leconte	Andrei Medvedev	6-2, 6-3
1994	Michael Stich	Magnus Larsson	6-4, 4-6, 6-3
1995	Marc Rosset	Michael Stich	3-6, 7-6(11), 7-6(8)
1996	Nicklas Kulti	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4
1997	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Magnus Larsson	7-6(2), 6-7(5), 7-6(7)
1998	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Magnus Larsson	6-4, 6-4
1999	Nicolas Kiefer	Nicklas Kulti	6-3, 6-2
2000	David Prinosil	Richard Krajicek	6-3, 6-2
2001	Thomas Johansson	Fabrice Santoro	6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2
2002	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Nicolas Kiefer	2-6, 6-4, 6-4
2003	Roger Federer	Nicolas Kiefer	6-1, 6-3
2004	Roger Federer	Mardy Fish	6-0, 6-3
2005	Roger Federer	Marat Safin	6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4
2006	Roger Federer	Tomáš Berdych	6-0, 6-7(4), 6-2
2007	Tomáš Berdych	Marcos Baghdatis	7-5, 6-4
2008

[edit] Doubles Champions

Year	Champions	Finalists	Score
1993	Petr Korda Cyril Suk	Mike Bauer Marc-Kevin Goellner	7-6, 5-7, 6-3
1994	Olivier Delaître Guy Forget	Henri Leconte Gary Muller	6-4, 6-7, 6-4
1995	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Andrei Olhovskiy	6-2, 3-6, 6-3
1996	Byron Black Grant Connell	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	6-1, 7-5
1997	Karsten Braasch Michael Stich	David Adams Marius Barnard	7-6, 6-3
1998	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	John-Laffnie de Jager Marc-Kevin Goellner	4-6, 6-4, 7-6
1999	Jonas Björkman Patrick Rafter	Paul Haarhuis Jared Palmer	6-3, 7-5
2000	Nicklas Kulti Mikael Tillström	Mahesh Bhupathi David Prinosil	7-6, 7-6
2001	Daniel Nestor Sandon Stolle	Max Mirnyi Patrick Rafter	6-4, 6-7, 6-1
2002	David Prinosil David Rikl	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	4-6, 7-6, 7-5
2003	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	6-3, 6-4
2004	Leander Paes David Rikl	Tomáš Cibulec Petr Pála	6-2, 7-5
2005	Roger Federer Yves Allegro	Joachim Johansson Marat Safin	7-5, 6-7, 6-3
2006	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	Michael Kohlmann Rainer Schüttler	6-0, 6-4
2007	Simon Aspelin Julian Knowle	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	6-4, 7-6
2008	Mikhail Youzhny Michael Zverev	Lukas Dlouhy Leander Paes	4-6, 6-3, 10-3