A trio of Top 10 players – Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev, and Fabio Fognini – headline the 2019 Hamburg European Open, an ATP Tour 500 clay-court tournament. 

Zverev, who was born in Hamburg, returns to his hometown tournament for the first time since 2016. He achieved his best result here five years ago as a 17-year-old, when he made a run to the semi-finals (l. to Ferrer). World No. 4 Thiem will look to improve upon last year’s quarter-final finish, while Fognini will look to reclaim the title he won in 2013.

Eight players in the field have triumphed at clay-court events in 2019: Juan Ignacio Londero (Cordoba), Marco Cecchinato (Buenos Aires), Laslo Djere (Rio de Janeiro), Cristian Garin (Houston, Munich), Fognini (Monte-Carlo), Thiem (Barcelona), Benoit Paire (Marrakech, Lyon) and Zverev (Geneva). Defending champion Nikoloz Basilashvili, two-time winner Leonardo Mayer and 2016 titlist Martin Klizan also return to Hamburg. 

Here’s all you need to know about the Hamburg tennis tournament: what is the schedule, where to watch, who has won and more. 

Established: 1892

Tournament Dates: 22-28 July 2019

Tournament Director: Sandra Reichel

Draw Ceremony: Saturday, 20 July at 1:00pm at the Kunsthalle Hamburg

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Schedule (View On Official Website)
* Qualifying: Saturday and Sunday at 11:30am
* Main draw: Monday – Friday at 11:30am, Saturday at 1:30pm
* Doubles final: Sunday, 28 July following singles final
* Singles final: Sunday, 28 July at 12:00pm

How To Watch
Watch Live On Tennis TV 
TV Schedule

Venue: Rothenbaum Tennis Stadium

Prize Money: €1,718,170 (Total Financial Commitment: €1,855,490) 

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View Who Is Playing, Past Champions, Seeds, Points & Prize Money Breakdown

Honour Roll (Open Era)
Most Titles, Singles: Roger Federer (4)
Most Titles, Doubles: Andres Gomez, Emilio Sanchez (4)
Oldest Champion: Andres Gimeno, 33, in 1971
Youngest Champion: Andrei Medvedev, 19, in 1994
Lowest-Ranked Champion (since 1979): No. 143 Roberto Carretero in 1996
Most Match Wins: Guillermo Vilas (35)

2018 Finals
Singles: [Q] Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO) d Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 64 06 75   Read & Watch
Doubles: Julio Peralta (CHI) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) d [1] Oliver Marach (AUT) / Mate Pavic (CRO) 61 46 10-6  Read More 

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Did You Know… The Hamburg honour roll includes a number of former World No. 1s, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Gustavo Kuerten, Marcelo Rios, Stefan Edberg, Ivan Lendl and John Newcombe.

All quarter-final action at the Hall of Fame Open in Newport, Rhode Island, will take place on Friday after rain caused the cancellation of Thursday’s matches.

Only one singles match got underway, with Spaniard Marcel Granollers taking a 6-3 lead against German Mischa Zverev before the rain began to fall. Last year, Granollers made the semi-finals in Newport before falling to eventual champion Steve Johnson.

In the lone completed match of the day, Marcelo Arevalo and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela beat Bradley Klahn and Denis Kudla 6-3, 6-3 in 62 minutes. The 2018 Los Cabos titlists are pursuing their first ATP Tour trophy of the season. They will play fourth seeds Ben McLachlan and John-Patrick Smith or Nicholas Monroe and Zverev in the semi-finals.

ORDER OF PLAY – FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2019

STADIUM start 11:00 am
M. Zverev (GER) vs M. Granollers (ESP) 36 00

Not Before 1:00 pm
[7] A. Bublik (KAZ) vs T. Sandgren (USA)
[1] [WC] J. Isner (USA) vs M. Ebden (AUS)

COURT 1 start 12:00 noon
[4] U. Humbert (FRA) vs I. Ivashka (BLR)

Not Before 1:00 pm
M. Gong (CHN) / Z. Zhang (CHN) vs M. Granollers (ESP) / S. Stakhovsky (UKR)
After Suitable Rest – M. Ebden (AUS) / R. Lindstedt (SWE) vs [3] M. Daniell (NZL) / L. Paes (IND)

COURT 2 start Not Before 1:00 pm
[4] B. McLachlan (JPN) / J. Smith (AUS) vs N. Monroe (USA) / M. Zverev (GER)

Fourth seed Richard Gasquet survived an intense battle on Thursday at the Swedish Open, rallying from a set down in Båstad to reach the quarter-finals over Austrian Dennis Novak 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Gasquet returned to action in May after missing the first four months of the year due to groin surgery. He improved to 8-6 this season after breaking Novak five times to advance in two hours and three minutes.

Next up for Gasquet is sixth-seeded Argentine Juan Ignacio Londero, who scored a marathon 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 win over Bolivian Hugo Dellien. Londero, who won his first ATP Tour title this February at the Cordoba Open (d. Pella), served to stay in the match at 4-5 in the second set. The Argentine beat Gasquet in their lone FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting two months ago at Roland Garros.

Eighth seed Joao Sousa dashed the hopes of local favourite Elias Ymer by winning the last five games of their match to advance 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. The 2014 runner-up (l. to Cuevas) is on a high after becoming the first Portuguese player to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon.

Awaiting Sousa in the quarter-finals is Argentine Federico Delbonis, who took out third seed and 2014 champion Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 6-4. Their match featured eight service breaks in the first 13 games, but Delbonis settled in midway through the second set to oust the Uruguayan in one hour and 23 minutes.

Sousa leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry with Delbonis 3-2 and has won their past two matches.

John Isner did not lose a set during two of his three Newport title runs. And although he dropped a set in his second-round match on Wednesday, the American advanced to the quarter-finals of the Hall of Fame Open with a 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 victory against Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak.

“It wasn’t easy, I played a long match, two hours and eight minutes. The conditions were brutal. It’s windy and like 90 per cent humidity, so it was tough conditions out there,” Isner said. “But I’m happy to claw through there because it wasn’t pretty at times, that’s for sure.”

Isner, competing in his second tournament since breaking his left foot in the Miami Open presented by Itau final against Roger Federer, is pursuing his first ATP Tour trophy of the season. The 34-year-old has claimed at least two titles in six of the past eight years, and he is looking to build his way into form after reaching the second round at Wimbledon, where he made his return to action.

Although the wind and humidity did not make it easy for Isner, he struck 25 aces and saved all five break points he faced. The World No. 15 also was happy to spend all the time he did on court, to continue to get match play as he recovers from his foot injury.

“I think it’s very good for me. I don’t play tomorrow, so to play two hours in conditions like that and humidity like that, it’s good for sure,” Isner said.

Isner will next face Aussie Matthew Ebden in a rematch of the 2017 Newport final, won by the American. Isner leads his FedEx ATP Head2Head series against the World No. 110 4-1. Ebden defeated Denis Kudla 6-2, 6-2 in the second round.

Although Isner moved on, the second and third seeds were ousted in Rhode Island. American Tennys Sandgren dismissed second seed Adrian Mannarino 6-4, 6-1 in just 73 minutes, and Spaniard Marcel Granollers beat third seed Jordan Thompson 6-2, 7-6(6) in 88 minutes.

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In the quarter-finals, Sandgren, who made the fourth round at Wimbledon, will face seventh seed Alexander Bublik in a rematch of a first-round match in Miami from earlier this year, won by the Kazakh. Bublik defeated qualifier Viktor Troicki 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Granollers will play German Mischa Zverev, who moved past Argentine Guido Andreozzi 6-4, 6-4. Zverev was 1-11 at tour-level on the season entering this week.

In other action, fourth seed Ugo Humbert, a #NextGenATP Frenchman, beat 2018 finalist Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-6 (5), 6-0. He will next play Ilya Ivashka of Belarus, who advanced past American Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-3.

Third seed Laslo Djere beat 2017 finalist Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to begin his Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Wednesday.

The Serbian is on the hunt for his second clay-court title of the season after triumphing for the first time in his seven-year career in February, when he beat #NextGenATP Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime to win the Rio Open presented by Claro, an ATP 500 event.

Djere trailed 0-2 in the third set, but won five games in a row to take a commanding lead and put himself in position to close. The 37-year-old Lorenzi, who won an ATP Tour title on clay in 2016, did not go away though, getting back on serve when the Serbian served for the match. Djere bounced right back though, breaking the Italian for the fifth time in the match to triumph after two hours and 43 minutes.

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The 24-year-old Djere will next face eighth seed Leonardo Mayer of Argentina. Mayer saved six of eight break points to fight past Czech Jiri Vesely 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. Hungarian qualifier Attila Balazs, 30, squeaked past sixth seed Filip Krajinovic 6-3, 6-7(1), 7-6(5) to make his second tour-level quarter-final.

The 30-year-old qualified and reached the Hungarian Open quarter-finals (l. to Herbert) in April. Balazs retired in August 2014 and started coaching tennis, but felt bored and came back to professional tennis.

He will next meet Italian Stefano Travaglia, who advanced 6-1, 2-1 when top seed Fabio Fognini retired from their second-round match.

Did You Know?
In his victory against Lorenzi, Djere saved 16 of the 20 break points he faced, including nine of 10 in the second set, which he lost.

Doubles Results
Leonardo Mayer/Andres Molteni def. Fabricio Neis/Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-4, 6-1
Tomislav Brkic/Ante Pavic def. Hans Podlipnik-Castillo/Tristan-Samuel Weissborn 6-2, 6-2
Denys Molchanov/Igor Zelenay def. Pablo Andujar/Gerard Granollers 6-2, 6-2
Robin Haase/Philipp Oswald def. Andrey Rublev/Andrei Vasilevski 4-6, 7-5, 16-14

Get your first serve in.

It’s an age-old tennis adage that forms the engine room for career-best performances from several players on Tour so far in 2019. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of first-serve percentage and career-best ATP Rankings uncovers a striking correlation between the two.

Dusan Lajovic leads the Tour in first-serve percentage in 2019, coming into Wimbledon, making 68.01 per cent of his first serves in 26 matches. The 29-year-old Serbian achieved a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 23 in April on the back of reaching his first ATP Masters 1000 final at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.

Guido Pella is second on the list for first serves made in 2019, making 67.16 per cent. The Argentine reached a career-high ranking of No. 21 in May. Pella won the Brasil Open that month, making an impressive 69 per cent (166/241) of first serves to take the title. He also reached the final of the inaugural Cordoba Open in February.

Aussie Jordan Thompson is ranked fifth in first-serve percentage so far in 2019, making 67.01 per cent of first serves through 34 matches. He reached a career-high of No. 43 this month after reaching the final of the Libema Open on grass in June.

Felix Auger-Aliassime, the 18-year-old Canadian sensation, is 10^th on the list of first serves made at 65.66 per cent from 38 matches. He boasts a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 21.

In May and June, the #NextGenATP star reached the final in Lyon on clay, the final in Stuttgart on grass and the semi-finals of the Fever Tree Championships in London leading into Wimbledon.

Auger-Aliassime: First Serves Made
Lyon = 69% (201/306)
Stuttgart = 65% (203/310)
Fever-Tree Championships = 64% (208/327)

The Top 10 list of first serves made also features other in-form and highly-ranked players:

Top 10: First Serves Made (January to Wimbledon)
Dusan Lajovic = 68.01%
Guido Pella = 67.16%
Dominic Thiem = 67.16%
Rafael Nadal = 67.13%
Jordan Thompson = 67.01%
Novak Djokovic = 66.42%
Alexander Zverev = 66.04%
Roberto Bautista Agut = 65.95%
Diego Schwartzman = 65.88%
Felix Auger-Aliassime = 65.66%

Four players from the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings appear in the Top 10 list of first serves made in 2019, including No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 2 Rafael Nadal, No. 4 Dominic Thiem and No. 5 Alexander Zverev.

The Top 10 list for first serves made is heavily populated with players from the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings and others enjoying the best seasons of their careers. It remains a statistical category that directly correlates to success in our sport.

Albert Ramos-Vinolas won a repeat of the 2016 Swedish Open final on Wednesday by defeating second seed and fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-4 in one hour and 46 minutes for a place in the quarter-finals.

Verdasco, who also finished as runner-up in 2013, had won two of their previous three meetings at the ATP Tour 250 clay-court tournament in 2014 and 2017. World No. 99 Ramos-Vinolas saved eight of nine break points he faced against Verdasco, who broke serve for the first time at 2-5 in the second set. Now with a 12-5 record in Båstad, Ramos-Vinolas next faces countryman Roberto Carballes Baena, who overcame Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina 6-1, 7-6(4) in the final match of the day.

France’s Jeremy Chardy hit 12 aces and worked hard to beat top seed Cristian Garin of Chile 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 35 minutes. Garin, this year’s Houston and Munich titlist, led 3-0 in the second set.

The World No. 80 will next play Garin’s compatriot fifth seed Nicolas Jarry, who won 12 of the first 17 points en route to knock out Swedish wild card Mikael Ymer 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and 45 minutes. Chardy beat this season’s Geneva runner-up Jarry 6-7(1), 6-2, 7-6(5) in March at the Miami Open presented by Itau.

1. Colombian Power
Over the past three months lifelong friends Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah have worked hard on their ascent to the summit of the ATP Doubles Rankings, setting the pace on the doubles circuit by compiling a 24-4 team record in that period to become joint No. 1s for the first time (week beginning 15 July).

The Colombians, who have known each other for almost 30 years, have captured four tour-level trophies in 2019, culminating in a four-hour, 57-minute thriller over Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin at The Championships, Wimbledon, that marked their first Grand Slam men’s doubles championship crown.

Five years on from lifting their first trophy in Rio de Janeiro, Cabal and Farah have compiled a 15-16 record in finals, which includes successes over the past few months at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (d. Murray/Soares), their second consecutive Internazionali BNL d’Italia title (d. Klaasen/Venus) and at the Nature Valley International (d. Gonzalez/Zeballos) that set up their run at the All England Club.

2. Mike’s 500 Weeks At No. 1
Mike Bryan, synonymous with spectacular returning, volleying and his record-breaking partnership with twin brother, Bob Bryan, celebrated his 500th week at No. 1 in the ATP Doubles Rankings on 26 May 2019.

“It seems like yesterday that we won Roland Garros [in 2003] and reached No. 1,” Mike Bryan told ATPTour.com. “It’s a dream to hit No. 1, but to be No. 1 for so long I owe it to this guy. We’ve been pushing each other and never really taken the foot off the gas as long as we’ve been playing. We’ve always reached for more and never been satisfied when we’ve won a tournament and set our sights on the next one. There has been sacrifice, but we love what we do.”

The feat came 15 years after he first reached the summit of the team game on 8 September 2003; and 46 weeks since returning to No. 1 for his 13th stint on 16 July 2018 – the first time since 25 October 2013. Mike Bryan continues to compete with the same passion, energy and dedication, with a record 1,129 tour-level match wins and 123 titles.

Read Tribute: Mike Celebrates 500th Week at No. 1

3. ATP Challenger Tour Stars To Grand Slam Champions
Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies have enjoyed an unprecedented rise since first joining forces in April 2018, initially plying their trade on the ATP Challenger Tour, to their first ATP Tour crown, and the biggest moment of their career at Roland Garros last month.

With ATP Challenger Tour titles in Rome, Almaty, Genova, Sibiu and Eckental on their mantle-pieces in 2018, the Germans were well-travelled before they captured their first ATP Tour crown in February this year at the New York Open, where they didn’t drop a set all week. But it wasn’t until they dipped back to the second tier, with two further crowns in Marbella and Heilbronn, that they made their Top 50 breakthroughs ahead of their debuts at the clay-court major championship in Paris.

The pair will now attempt to build on its breakthrough in order to qualify for the eight-team Nitto ATP Finals, to be held at The O2 in London from 10-17 November.

Read Feature: The Meteoric Rise Of Mies & Krawietz 

4. Andy Murray Makes Welcome & Dramatic Return At The Queen’s Club
Five months on from undergoing right hip surgery, Andy Murray made a welcome return to the ATP Tour in June – not on the singles court, but in tandem with Feliciano Lopez at the Fever-Tree Championships. Having saved two set points in the opening set, the pair clinched the title with a 7-6(6), 5-7, 10-5 win over Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury.

It was Murray’s first ATP Tour doubles title since prevailing with his brother, Jamie Murray, at the 2011 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo (d. Cermak/Polasek), and gave him a confidence boost for his chances of returning to singles competition, potentially later in 2019. “I felt relaxed at the beginning of the week, but felt more nervous as it went on. I think my competitive instincts started kicking in,” said Murray. “My hip has felt great, pain-free. I’ll try to keep progressing, but I am just happy to be back on the court.”

Lopez, who defeated Gilles Simon earlier in the day to clinch The Queen’s Club singles crown, was the first player since Matteo Berrettini (2018 Gstaad) to win singles and doubles titles at the same event. The Spaniard was also the first man since Mark Philippoussis (1997) to win both titles in the same year at The Queen’s Club.

5. ATP Doubles Race To London Shaping Up
A little more than three months ago, Cabal and Farah could be found in 13th position on 690 points in the ATP Doubles Race To London, but today lead the quest for a spot at the Nitto ATP Finals in November on 5,250 points. The Colombians lead the second-placed Bryan twins (2,690) by 2,560 points and are already in strong contention to finish 2019 as the year-end No. 1 team (having finished second behind Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic in 2018). The Bryans have clinched two ATP Tour titles this year: their fifth Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com (d. Skupski/Skupski) and their sixth Miami Open presented by Itau (d. Koolhof/Tsitsipas).

Third-placed Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, the 2017 finalists at the season finale, trail the Americans by only 35 points, while 2015 Nitto ATP Finals titlists Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau (sixth), this season’s Mutua Madrid Open champions, and 2016/17 winners Henri Kontinen and John Peers (seventh) are separated by just 10 points with less than four months to go until the event at The O2 in London from 10-17 November.

View ATP Doubles Race To London