The Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, branded by its sponsored name as the Libéma Open since 2018, (formerly known as the Continental Grass Court Championships, Heineken Trophy, Ordina Open, UNICEF Open, Topshelf Open and RICOH Open), is a professional

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held in the town of

Rosmalen Rosmalen () is a town in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. The town is located 6 kilometers east of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) and has been part of that Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality si ...

, on the outskirts of the city of

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(Den Bosch), the Netherlands. The men's and women's tennis matches are played on outdoors

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s at the Autotron convention center, and constitute a stage on the

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and the

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.WTA:Libema Open In 1989 a two-group round robin invitational tournament with eight players was organized in Rosmalen which was won by

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. The next year, 1990, the tournament became part of the newly founded

and was officially called the Continental Grass Court Championships. At the time of its founding it was the only grass court event held in continental Europe. The tournament is used by tennis pros as a preparation for the

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and was held the week prior to Wimbledon until 2014. From 2015 onwards it is held the week following the French Open. In 1996 a women's singles and doubles event dubbed Wilkinson Championships was added to the tournament. It is classified as an

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event on the men's

and a WTA 250 event on the women's

Past finals

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Notes

References

External links

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