The 2006 Open de Moselle was a men's

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tournament played on indoor

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s. It was the fourth edition of the

Open de Moselle The Moselle Open (Open de Moselle from 2003 to 2010) is a professional tennis tournament held in the city of Metz and played on indoor hardcourts. It is part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour from 2003. The venue for the tournament is cu ...

, and was part of the International Series of the

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. It took place at the

Arènes de Metz The Palais omnisport Les Arènes, often abbreviated as Les Arènes, is an indoor sports arena in Metz, France. It is the home venue of the Metz Handball team and the Open de Moselle men's tennis tournament, part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ...

Metz Metz ( , , , then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle (river), Moselle and the Seille (Moselle), Seille rivers. Metz is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Moselle (department), Moselle Departments ...

, France, from 2 October through 8 October 2006. Third-seeded

Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...

won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

defeated

Jürgen Melzer Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a youn ...

4–6, 6–3, 6–2 *It was Djokovic's 2nd title of the year, and his 2nd overall.

Doubles

Richard Gasquet Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...

Fabrice Santoro Fabrice Vetea Santoro (; born 9 December 1972) is a French former professional tennis player. Successful in both singles and doubles, he had an unusually long professional career, with many of his accomplishments coming towards the end of his ca ...

defeated

Julian Knowle Julian Knowle (born 29 April 1974) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Being a born left-hander, Knowle was one of the few on the ATP Tour who played his forehand, backhand, and even volleys double-handed. He was Austria's most ...

3–6, 6–1, 1–9*It was Gasquet's 1st title of the year, and the 1st of his career. It was Santoro's 3rd title of the year, and the 21st of his career.

References

External links

Official website

ATP tournament profile

ITF tournament edition details
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