Be part of the team as a social media employee

The MSC Hamburg Ladies Open is the most traditional tennis tournament held annually at the Rothenbaum in Hamburg. The WTA 250 event will take place in 2025 from 13-20 July. We, MatchMaker Sports GmbH, first and foremost need a good team to organise and run the event. Would you like to be part of the MSC Hamburg Ladies [...]

Be part of the team as an intern

The MSC Hamburg Ladies Open is the most traditional tennis tournament held annually at the Rothenbaum in Hamburg. The WTA 250 event will take place in 2025 from 13-20 July. We, MatchMaker Sports GmbH, first and foremost need a good team to organise and run the event. Would you like to be part of the MSC Hamburg Ladies [...]

About the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is one of the world's leading transport and logistics companies, privately owned and founded in 1970 by Gianluigi Aponte. As one of the world's leading container shipping lines, MSC has 675 offices in 155 countries worldwide. The company has grown from a one-ship operation to a globally recognised company with a fleet of 900 [...]

Cast off for the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open 2025

Off to new shores! The flagship of professional women's tennis in Hamburg is entering the future with a new name. The world's largest shipping company, MSC, has taken over the title sponsorship of the international WTA tournament at Hamburg's Rothenbaum. The event, which this year will once again be organised as a WTA 250 category tournament, will now bear the name "MSC Hamburg Ladies Open" [...]

Anna Bondar achieves "double triumph" at the ECE Ladies Hamburg Open

The great triumphant of the ECE Ladies Hamburg Open 2024 is Anna Bondar! The Hungarian won both the singles and doubles at the WTA 125s tournament in the traditional Rothenbaum tennis stadium in front of around 2,000 spectators. After her convincing 6:4, 6:2 victory over last year's winner Arantxa Rus in the final of the singles competition, she won the doubles alongside her [...]

Arantxa Rus wins the Hamburg European Open

Arantxa Rus (32) received the prize of honour for the first major tournament win of her career from her famous Spanish namesake Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, who triumphed three times on the centre court at the Rothenbaum. The Dutchwoman prevailed 6-0, 7-6 (7-3) in the final of the Hamburg European Open against local hero Noma Noha Akugue (19), who won with her [...]

Clear commitment to women's tennis in Hamburg

After the women's final of the Hamburg European Open, which was won in two sets by Arantxa Rus (32) from the Netherlands against Noma Noha Akugue from Hamburg, tournament director Sandra Reichel looked back happily and with satisfaction on the WTA tournament as part of the only combined professional tennis event in Germany - and also ventured a look into the future. "That we have a [...]

Bernarda Pera triumphs at the Rothenbaum in Hamburg

At the moment of her sporting triumph, Bernarda Pera thought of her former coach Kristijan Schneider, who passed away in April. "The tennis world has suffered a great loss and I would like to dedicate this trophy to him," said the US-American with a faltering voice on Centre Court during the award ceremony for her title win at the Hamburg European Open. It was the [...]

Title win for Elena-Gabriela Ruse

The Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse has won the Hamburg European Open for women. In an exciting final, the 23-year-old defeated Hamburg's tournament ambassador Andrea Petkovic 7:6 (8:6), 6:4 to win the first title of her career on the WTA Tour. But the week at the Rothenbaum was also a great success for Petkovic, the 33-year-old [...]