The Stockholm Open (currently sponsored by Intrum) is an indoor

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event on the

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played at the

Kungliga tennishallen Kungliga tennishallen ( English: Royal Tennis Hall) is a tennis venue at Lidingövägen 75 in Stockholm, Sweden. The stadium was built in October 1943 and has a capacity of 5,000. Kungliga tennishallen, now a hard-court surface, remains the ve ...

in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament is owned by The Royal Lawn Tennis Club of Stockholm, SALK (Stockholm Public Lawn Tennis Club) and Tennis Stockholm. The first Stockholm Open was held in 1969 and it has been played each year ever since, except for 2020 when it was cancelled due to the corona pandemic. The

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is played on indoor hard-court and features both men's singles and doubles tournament. The event was held on

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s in 1975, 1979, and 1980 as a short-lived women's competition, as well as in 1989 and 1990. Originally played in November, the tournament was moved to October in 2001.

History

In March 1969 the

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organization made a request to former tennis player

Sven Davidson Sven Viktor Davidson (13 July 1928 – 28 May 2008) was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957, beating Ashley Cooper and Herbert Flam. Career Davidson also ...

to organize a tournament in Sweden. This led to the inaugural edition of the Stockholm Open in November 1969 in

in Stockholm. It has been held there ever since except for the years 1989 to 1994 when it was held in the

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. Between 1970 and 1989 it was a major ranking tournament of the

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as part of the

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(except from 1981 to 1983, when it was briefly downgraded). From 1990 until 1994 it was an ATP Championship Series Single Week event. Since 1995, the tournament has been downgraded from Super 9 status (which replaced the ATP Championship Series, Single Week) status offering $1.72 million in prize money to

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level with €711,275 (2019) prize money.

Past finals

Men

Singles

Doubles

Women

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

Official Stockholm Open website

ATP – Tournament profileStockholm Open at SVT's open archive
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