ATP: New licence holder wants to stay at Rothenbaum

The tennis tournament at Rothenbaum in Hamburg seems to have a future in the Hanseatic city beyond 2018.

“We want to do everything in our power to ensure that we can continue to hold this tournament with such a long tradition in Hamburg in the long term,”Peter-Michael Reichel, who holds the license to the German Open from 2019, told NDR 90.3. The Austrian also stressed that a new roof over the Centre Court was not a prerequisite for staying.

In 2018 Michael Stich will once again host the traditional clay court event. In September, the German Tennis Association (DTB) had granted Reichel the licence from 2019 onwards, and since then it has been speculated that the tournament could disappear from Hamburg.