Hypo Group Tennis International

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Hypo Group Tennis International
Tournament information
Founded1981
Abolished2008
Editions28
Location Pörtschach
Austria
Venue Werzer Arena
Category ATP World Series
(1990–1999)
ATP International Series
(2000–2008)
SurfaceClay / outdoors
Draw32S / 16D
Prize money€450,000
Website Official website

The Hypo Group Tennis International was an annual men's tennis tournament which was held between 1981 and 2008. During its lifetime it was organized in four locations in Italy and Austria. The event was part of the ATP Tour's World Series from 1990 to 1999 and of the ATP International Series from 2000 until the final edition in 2008. The tournament had been played on clay courts since its inaugural edition.

Contents

Past finals

Singles

LocationYearChampionRunner-upScore
Bari, Italy 1981 Flag of Hungary.svg Zoltan Kuharszky Flag of Italy.svg Paolo Bertolucci 6–4, 6–0
1982 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul McNamee Flag of Hungary.svg Balázs Taróczy 6–2, 6–2
1983 Flag of Italy.svg Corrado Barazzutti Flag of Argentina.svg Carlos Castellán 6–0, 6–1
1984 Flag of Sweden.svg Henrik Sundström Flag of Chile.svg Pedro Rebolledo 7–5, 6–4
1985 Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Panatta Flag of the United States.svg Lawson Duncan 6–2, 1–6, 7–6
1986 Flag of Sweden.svg Kent Carlsson Flag of Argentina.svg Horacio de la Peña 7–5, 6–7, 7–5
1987 Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Pistolesi Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Cancellotti 6–7, 7–5, 6–3
1988 Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Muster Flag of Uruguay.svg Marcelo Filippini 2–6, 6–1, 7–5
1989 Flag of Spain.svg Juan Aguilera Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Marián Vajda 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Genoa, Italy 1990 Flag of Haiti.svg Ronald Agénor Flag of France.svg Tarik Benhabiles 3–6, 6–4, 6–3
1991 Flag of Germany.svg Carl-Uwe Steeb Flag of Spain.svg Jordi Arrese 6–3, 6–4
1992 Flag of Ukraine.svg Andrei Medvedev Flag of Argentina.svg Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6–3, 6–4
1993 Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Muster Flag of Sweden.svg Magnus Gustafsson 7–6, 6–4
St. Pölten, Austria 1994 Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Muster Flag of Spain.svg Tomás Carbonell 4–6, 6–2, 6–4
1995 Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Muster Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Bohdan Ulihrach 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
1996 Flag of Chile.svg Marcelo Ríos Flag of Spain.svg Félix Mantilla 6–2, 6–4
1997 Flag of Uruguay.svg Marcelo Filippini Flag of Australia (converted).svg Patrick Rafter 7–6, 6–2
1998 Flag of Chile.svg Marcelo Ríos Flag of the United States.svg Vincent Spadea 6–2, 6–0
1999 Flag of Chile.svg Marcelo Ríos Flag of Argentina.svg Mariano Zabaleta 4–4 ret.
2000 Flag of Romania.svg Andrei Pavel Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Ilie 7–5, 3–6, 6–2
2001 Flag of Italy.svg Andrea Gaudenzi Flag of Austria.svg Markus Hipfl 6–0, 7–5
2002 Flag of Ecuador.svg Nicolás Lapentti Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Vicente 7–5, 6–4
2003 Flag of the United States.svg Andy Roddick Flag of Russia.svg Nikolay Davydenko 6–3, 6–2
2004 Flag of Italy.svg Filippo Volandri Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Xavier Malisse 6–1, 6–4
2005 Flag of Russia.svg Nikolay Davydenko Flag of Austria.svg Jürgen Melzer 6–3, 2–6, 6–4
Pörtschach, Austria 2006 Flag of Russia.svg Nikolay Davydenko Flag of Romania.svg Andrei Pavel 6–0, 6–3
2007 Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Mónaco Flag of France.svg Gaël Monfils 7–6(7–3), 6–0
2008 Flag of Russia.svg Nikolay Davydenko Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Mónaco 6–2, 2–6, 6–2

Doubles

LocationYearChampionsRunners-upScore
Bari, Italy 1984 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Stanislav Birner
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Libor Pimek
Flag of the United States.svg Marcel Freeman
Flag of the United States.svg Tim Wilkison
2–6, 7–6, 6–4
1985 Flag of Argentina.svg Alejandro Ganzábal
Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Panatta
Flag of the United States.svg Marcel Freeman
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Laurie Warder
6–4, 6–2
1986 Flag of the United States.svg Gary Donnelly
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Tomáš Šmíd
Flag of Spain.svg Sergio Casal
Flag of Spain.svg Emilio Sánchez
2–6, 6–4, 6–4
1987 Flag of Sweden.svg Christer Allgårdh
Flag of Sweden.svg Ulf Stenlund
Flag of Argentina.svg Roberto Azar
Flag of Argentina.svg Marcelo Ingaramo
2–6, 7–5, 7–5
1988 Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Muster
Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Panatta
Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Cancellotti
Flag of Italy.svg Simone Colombo
6–3, 6–1
1989 Flag of Italy.svg Simone Colombo
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Claudio Mezzadri
Flag of Spain.svg Sergio Casal
Flag of Spain.svg Javier Sánchez
0–6, 6–3, 6–3
Genoa, Italy 1990 Flag of Spain.svg Tomás Carbonell
Flag of Germany.svg Udo Riglewski
Flag of Italy.svg Cristiano Caratti
Flag of Italy.svg Federico Mordegan
7–6, 7–6
1991 Flag of Spain.svg Marcos Aurelio Gorriz
Flag of Venezuela.svg Alfonso Mora
Flag of Italy.svg Massimo Ardinghi
Flag of Italy.svg Massimo Boscatto
5–7, 7–5, 6–3
1992 Flag of the United States.svg Shelby Cannon
Flag of the United States.svg Greg Van Emburgh
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Paul Haarhuis
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mark Koevermans
6–1, 6–1
1993 Flag of Spain.svg Sergio Casal
Flag of Spain.svg Emilio Sánchez
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mark Koevermans
Flag of the United States.svg Greg Van Emburgh
6–3, 7–6
St. Pölten, Austria1994 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Vojtěch Flégl
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Florent
Flag of Malaysia.svg Adam Malik
Flag of the United States.svg Jeff Tarango
3–6, 6–1, 6–4
1995 Flag of the United States.svg Bill Behrens
Flag of the United States.svg Matt Lucena
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Libor Pimek
Flag of South Africa.svg Byron Talbot
7–5, 6–4
1996 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Ctislav Doseděl
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Pavel Vízner
Flag of South Africa.svg David Adams
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Menno Oosting
6–7, 6–4, 6–3
1997 Flag of the United States.svg Kelly Jones
Flag of the United States.svg Scott Melville
Flag of the United States.svg Luke Jensen
Flag of the United States.svg Murphy Jensen
6–2, 7–6
1998 Flag of the United States.svg Jim Grabb
Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Macpherson
Flag of South Africa.svg David Adams
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Wayne Black
6–4, 6–4
1999 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Florent
Flag of Russia.svg Andrei Olhovskiy
Flag of South Africa.svg Brent Haygarth
Flag of South Africa.svg Robbie Koenig
5–7, 6–4, 7–5
2000 Flag of India.svg Mahesh Bhupathi
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Kratzmann
Flag of Italy.svg Andrea Gaudenzi
Flag of Italy.svg Diego Nargiso
7–6, 6–7, 6–4
2001 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petr Pála
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg David Rikl
Flag of Brazil.svg Jaime Oncins
Flag of Argentina.svg Daniel Orsanic
6–3, 5–7, 7–5
2002 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petr Pála
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg David Rikl
Flag of the United States.svg Mike Bryan
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Hill
7–5, 6–4
2003 Flag of Sweden.svg Simon Aspelin
Flag of Italy.svg Massimo Bertolini
Flag of Armenia.svg Sargis Sargsian
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Nenad Zimonjić
6–4, 6–7, 6–3
2004 Flag of Argentina.svg Mariano Hood
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petr Pála
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Tomáš Cibulec
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Leoš Friedl
3–6, 7–5, 6–4
2005 Flag of Argentina.svg Lucas Arnold Ker
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Hanley
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Martin Damm
Flag of Argentina.svg Mariano Hood
6–3, 6–4
Pörtschach, Austria2006 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Hanley
Flag of the United States.svg Jim Thomas
Flag of Austria.svg Oliver Marach
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Cyril Suk
6–3, 4–6, [10–5]
2007 Flag of Sweden.svg Simon Aspelin
Flag of Austria.svg Julian Knowle
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Leoš Friedl
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg David Škoch
7–6, 5–7, [10–5]
2008 Flag of Brazil.svg Marcelo Melo
Flag of Brazil.svg André Sá
Flag of Austria.svg Julian Knowle
Flag of Austria.svg Jürgen Melzer
7–5, 6–7, [13–11]


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