Ecotrans Berlin Ladies Open
The WTA Tournament Berlin was a clay court tennis tournament of the WTA Tour, which was held from 1979 to 2008 as the International German Championships in Berlin. Since 1979 the women's tournament took place in Berlin. At the beginning of the 1980s, Bettina Bunge and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, two Germans were able to enter the winners' lists. From 1986, another German woman dominated the tournament with Steffi Graf. Within eleven years, she won the tournament nine times and is thus the record winner of the event. After a long break, emotion sports GmbH ushered in a new era of lawn tennis in Berlin in 2021. Since then, world stars such as Maria Sakkari, Ons Jabeur, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff have been fighting for the title at the ecotrans Ladies Open.