St. Petersburg Open

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St. Petersburg Open

ATP Tour
Location	St. Petersburg Russia
Venue	Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex
Category	International Series
Surface	Carpet / Indoors
Draw	32S/32Q/16D
Prize Money	$1,000,000
Website	spbopen.ru

The St. Petersburg Open (Russian: Открытый Санкт-Петербург) is a tennis tournament held in the city of St. Petersburg, in the country of Russia. Held since 1995, both men's singles and doubles are held at the tournament.

Swedish player Thomas Johansson (2002 Australian Open singles champion) and Russian player Marat Safin (2000 US Open and 2005 Australian Open singles champion) are the only players to win the singles titles more than once. Johansson also holds the record for most singles final appearances (won in 1997 and 2005, lost the final in 2006).

Three different Russian players won the singles title: Kafelnikov (1995), Safin (2000 and 2001) and Youzhny (2004).

1 Past finals
- 1.1 Singles
- 1.2 Doubles
2 External links

[edit] Past finals

[edit] Singles

Year	Champion	Finalist	Score
1995	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Guillaume Raoux	6-2, 6-2
1996	Magnus Gustafsson	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-2, 7-6(4)
1997	Thomas Johansson	Renzo Furlan	6-3, 6-4
1998	Richard Krajicek	Marc Rosset	6-4, 7-6(5)
1999	Marc Rosset	David Prinosil	6-3, 6-4
2000	Marat Safin	Dominik Hrbatý	2-6, 6-4, 6-4
2001	Marat Safin	Rainer Schüttler	3-6, 6-3, 6-3
2002	Sébastien Grosjean	Mikhail Youzhny	7-5, 6-4
2003	Gustavo Kuerten	Sargis Sargsian	6-4, 6-3
2004	Mikhail Youzhny	Karol Beck	6-2, 6-2
2005	Thomas Johansson	Nicolas Kiefer	6-4, 6-2
2006	Mario Ančić	Thomas Johansson	7-5, 7-6
2007	Andy Murray	Fernando Verdasco	6-2, 6-3

[edit] Doubles

Year	Champions	Finalists	Score
1995	Martin Damm & Anders Järryd	Jakob Hlasek & Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-4, 6-2
1996	Yevgeny Kafelnikov & Andrei Olhovskiy	Nicklas Kulti & Peter Nyborg	6-3, 6-4
1997	Andrei Olhovskiy & Brett Steven	David Prinosil & Daniel Vacek	6-4, 6-3
1998	Nicklas Kulti & Mikael Tillström	Marius Barnard & Brent Haygarth	3-6, 6-3, 7-6
1999	Jeff Tarango & Daniel Vacek	Menno Oosting & Andrei Pavel	3-6, 6-3, 7-5
2000	Daniel Nestor & Kevin Ullyett	Thomas Shimada & Myles Wakefield	7-6(5), 7-5
2001	Denis Golovanov & Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Irakli Labadze & Marat Safin	7-5, 6-4
2002	David Adams & Jared Palmer	Irakli Labadze & Marat Safin	7-6(8), 6-3
2003	Julian Knowle & Nenad Zimonjić	Michael Kohlmann & Rainer Schüttler	7-6(1), 6-3
2004	Arnaud Clément & Michaël Llodra	Dominik Hrbatý & Jaroslav Levinský	6-3, 6-2
2005	Julian Knowle & Jürgen Melzer	Jonas Björkman & Max Mirnyi	4-6, 7-5, 7-5
2006	Simon Aspelin & Todd Perry	Julian Knowle & Jürgen Melzer	6-1, 7-6(3)
2007	Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjić	Jürgen Melzer & Todd Perry	6-1, 7-6(3)