Marseille Open

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The Marseille Open is an annual men's tennis tournament played in Marseille, France as part of the ATP Tour. It is also known as the Open 13, and is held for one week in February.

The tournament is played on indoor hard courts.

1 Location
2 History
3 Past Results
4 External links

[edit] Location

The tournament is played inside the Palais des Sports de Marseille. The central court has a capacity of 5800 seats.

[edit] History

The event was first held in 1993. It was the project of ex-professional tennis player, and native of Marseille, Jean-François Caujolle, who remains tournament director to this day.

The Swiss player Marc Rosset won the singles title at the first two editions of the event in 1993 and 1994. He also won it for a 3rd time in 2000. The Swede Thomas Enqvist is so far the only other player to win the title 3 times, doing so in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

In 2004 the event became one of the Top 25 ATP Tour tournaments in terms of prize money.

[edit] Past Results

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score in final
1993	Marc Rosset	Jan Siemerink	6-2, 7-6
1994	Marc Rosset	Arnaud Boetsch	7-6, 7-6
1995	Boris Becker	Daniel Vacek	6-7, 6-4, 7-5
1996	Guy Forget	Cédric Pioline	7-5, 6-4
1997	Thomas Enqvist	Marcelo Rios	6-4, 1-0 retired
1998	Thomas Enqvist	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-4, 6-1
1999	Fabrice Santoro	Arnaud Clément	6-3, 4-6, 6-4
2000	Marc Rosset	Roger Federer	2-6, 6-3, 7-6
2001	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Sébastien Grosjean	7-6, 6-2
2002	Thomas Enqvist	Nicolas Escudé	6-7, 6-3, 6-1
2003	Roger Federer	Jonas Bjorkman	6-2, 7-6
2004	Dominik Hrbatý	Robin Soderling	4-6, 6-4, 6-4
2005	Joachim Johansson	Ivan Ljubičić	7-5, 6-4
2006	Arnaud Clément	Mario Ančić	6-4, 6-2