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Gerry Weber Open





Place: Halle, Germany
Date: June 9-15, 2008
Draw Size: 32
Surface: Grass
Prize Money: €713,000
Tournament Director: Ralf Weber
Ticket Hotline:
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Berdych Crashes Baghdatis's Birthday Celebrations With Title

Fourth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych dropped just two points on his first serve in a 7-5, 6-4 win over eighth seed Marcos Baghdatis to win the Gerry Weber Open, one year after finishing runner-up to Roger Federer.

Berdych, 21, clinched his first title since winning ATP Masters Series Paris in late 2005. It was his third career title.

Singles Final:
(4)T Berdych (CZE) d (8)M Baghdatis 75 64

Doubles Final:
(3)Aspelin/Knowle vs (2)Santoro/Zimonjic 64 76(5)

2007 Final Review





Kafelnikov's Durability- Russia's Yevgeny Kafelnikov proved his consistency on all surfaces over the years by winning the title in Halle three times (1997, 1998, 2002). The former World No. 1 also reached the final in 1996 (l. Kulti).

SINGLES

DOUBLES
2007

Tomas Berdych

Simon Aspelin/Julian Knowle

2006

Roger Federer

Fabrice Santoro/Nenad Zimonjic

2005

Roger Federer

Roger Federer/Yves Allegro

2004

Roger Federer

Leander Paes/David Rikl

2003

Roger Federer

Jonas Bjorkman/Todd Woodbridge

2002

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

David Prinosil/David Rikl

2001

Thomas Johansson

Daniel Nestor/Sandon Stolle

2000

David Prinosil

Nicklas Kulti/Mikael Tillstrom

1999

Nicolas Kiefer

Jonas Bjorkman/Patrick Rafter

1998

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Ellis Ferreira/Rick Leach

1997

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Karsten Braasch/Michael Stich

1996

Nicklas Kulti

Byron Black/Grant Connell

1995
Marc Rosset Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis
1994

Michael Stich

Olivier Delaitre/Guy Forget
1993

Henri Leconte

Petr Korda/Cyril Suk


W

225

€115,500

F

155

€62,400

SF

100

€34,660

QF

55

€19,340

R16

20

€11,300

R32

10

€6,600

 

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