Am Rothenbaum

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Am Rothenbaum
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Tennisstadion Am Rothenbaum
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Am Rothenbaum in 2015
Location Hallerstraße 89
20149 Hamburg, Germany
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Owner Deutscher Tennis Bund e.V.
Operator Rothenbaum Sport GmbH
Type retractable roof stadium
Genre(s) tennis
Capacity 13,200
Surface clay court
Scoreboard Yes
Construction
Opened 1892 (1892)
Renovated 1997−1999[1]
Construction cost ?
(Renovation)
Architect ASP Schweger Assoziierte[1]
Structural engineer Werner Sobek Ingenieure GmbH & Co. KG[1]
Tenants
International German Open (1892−present)

Am Rothenbaum is the site of the main tennis court of the Hamburg Masters tournament, played in the Rotherbaum quarter of Hamburg, Germany.

History

The International German Open has been played in Rotherbaum since 1892, making it Germany's longest-running tennis tournament. The current stadium was built in 1999 and holds 13,300 spectators, making it Germany's largest tennis venue. Today, it is one of the only two tournaments on German soil to be part of the ATP World Tour 500 (the other being Halle Open), and one of the twenty largest tennis tournaments in the world.[2]

Location

"Tennisstadion am Rothenbaum" is located in Rotherbaum at Hallerstraße 89, between Rothenbaumchaussee and Mittelweg. Nearest rapid transit station is Hallerstraße, directly next to the tennis park. The Außenalster, Hamburg's popular lake, is some 600 m apart.

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Main court at Am Rothenbaum during the 2012 International German Open

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rothenbaum Center Court at StructuraeLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
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