Erste Bank Open Presented With ATP 500 Award | ATP Tour

ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi introduced Erste Bank Open Match Director Herwig Straka on Wednesday with a trophy to recognise the Vienna occasion being named the ATP 500 Match of the Yr within the 2021 ATP Awards.

“We’re more than happy that the Erste Bank Open have been voted the ATP 500 event of the 12 months for the primary time in our lengthy historical past,” Straka mentioned final 12 months. “We take this as an award for all the staff, which prepares and implements the occasion with nice motivation yearly. We constantly attempt to enhance and innovate the Erste Bank Open, like this 12 months’s launch of the ‘Tennis 2 Go’ venture, to supply each gamers and followers world-class tennis and leisure on the highest stage.”

It was the primary time the Erste Bank Open was named the ATP 500 Match of the 12 months. The occasion, which was first held in 1974, attracted practically 60,000 followers final 12 months regardless of the affect of the Covid-19 pandemic. The followers flocked to each the Stadthalle and “Tennis 2 Go”, a brand new second-match location within the metropolis centre on the Wiener Eislaufverein.

The BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (ATP Masters 1000) and the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha (ATP 250) have been named as Match of the Yr of their respective classes final 12 months.