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Brawo Open

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The Brawo Open (formerly Nord/LB Open, Sparkassen Open) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Braunschweiger Tennis und Hockey Club in Braunschweig, Germany, since 1994 and it is the longest-running German Challenger and the ninth longest-running event on the Challenger Tour.

In 2005, 2014, 2015, and 2016 the tournament received the ATP Challenger of the Year award from the ATP.

01Past finals

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2026	Jan Choinski	Hugo Gaston	4-6, 6-0, 6-4
2025	Mariano Navone	Juan Manuel Cerúndolo	6-3, 7-5
2024	Roberto Carballés Baena	Botic van de Zandschulp	6-1, 6-3
2023	Franco Agamenone	Pavel Kotov	7-5, 6-3
2022	Jan-Lennard Struff	Maximilian Marterer	6-2, 6-2
2021	Daniel Altmaier	Henri Laaksonen	6-1, 6-2
2020	Not held
2019	Thiago Monteiro	Tobias Kamke	7-6^(8-6), 6-1
2018	Yannick Hanfmann	Jozef Kovalík	6-2, 3-6, 6-3
2017	Nicola Kuhn	Viktor Galović	2-6, 7-5, 4-2 ret.
2016	Thomaz Bellucci	Íñigo Cervantes	6-1, 1-6, 6-3
2015	Filip Krajinović	Paul-Henri Mathieu	6-2, 6-4
2014	Alexander Zverev	Paul-Henri Mathieu	1-6, 6-1, 6-4
2013	Florian Mayer	Jiří Veselý	4-6, 6-2, 6-1
2012	Thomaz Bellucci	Tobias Kamke	7-6^(7-4), 6-3
2011	Lukáš Rosol	Evgeny Donskoy	7-5, 7-6^(7-2)
2010	Mikhail Kukushkin	Marcos Daniel	6-2, 3-0, RET.
2009	Óscar Hernández	Teymuraz Gabashvili	6-1, 3-6, 6-4
2008	Nicolas Devilder	Sergio Roitman	6-4, 6-4
2007	Óscar Hernández	Florian Mayer	6-2, 1-6, 6-1
2006	Jan Hájek	Fernando Vicente	6-1, 6-3
2005	Óscar Hernández	Nicolás Lapentti	6-3, 6-3
2004	Tomáš Berdych	Daniel Elsner	4-6, 6-1, 6-4
2003	Werner Eschauer	Igor Andreev	6-1, 7-6(2)
2002	David Sánchez	José Acasuso	5-1 retired
2001	Andrea Gaudenzi	Younes El Aynaoui	3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4
2000	Gastón Gaudio	Franco Squillari	6-4, 6-7(2), 6-4
1999	Jens Knippschild	Franco Squillari	7-5, 7-6(6)
1998	Franco Squillari	Lucas Arnold Ker	6-2, 4-6, 6-1
1997	Francisco Roig	Félix Mantilla Botella	6-2, 2-6, 6-2
1996	Alberto Berasategui	Jozsef Krocsko	6-2, 6-2
1995	Magnus Gustafsson	Stefano Pescosolido	4-6, 6-0, 7-6()
1994	Gilbert Schaller	Javier Sánchez	6-4, 3-6, 6-3

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2026	Orlando Luz Rafael Matos	Arthur Reymond Luca Sanchez	7-5, 6-2
2025	Vasil Kirkov Bart Stevens	Alexander Merino Christoph Negritu	6-2, 6-3
2024	Sander Arends Robin Haase	Sriram Balaji Gonzalo Escobar	4-6, 6-4, [10-8]
2023	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Arthur Reymond	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Arjun Kadhe	7-6^(9-7), 6-4
2022	Marcelo Demoliner Jan-Lennard Struff	Roman Jebavý Adam Pavlásek	6-4, 7-5
2021	Szymon Walków Jan Zieliński	Ivan Sabanov Matej Sabanov	6-4, 4-6, [10-4]
2020	Not held
2019	Simone Bolelli Guillermo Durán	Nathaniel Lammons Antonio Šančić	6-3, 6-2
2018	Santiago González Wesley Koolhof	Sriram Balaji Vishnu Vardhan	6-3, 6-3
2017	Julian Knowle Igor Zelenay	Kevin Krawietz Gero Kretschmer	6-3, 7-6^(7-3)
2016	James Cerretani Philipp Oswald	Mateusz Kowalczyk Antonio Šančić	4-6, 7-6^(7-5), [10-2]
2015	Sergey Betov Michail Elgin	Damir Džumhur Franko Škugor	3-6, 6-1, [10-5]
2014	Andreas Siljeström Igor Zelenay	Rameez Junaid Michal Mertiňák	7-5, 6-4
2013	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	Andreas Siljeström Igor Zelenay	6-2, 7-6^(7-4)
2012	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	Harri Heliövaara Denys Molchanov	7-5, 6-7^(1-7), [10-8]
2011	Martin Emmrich Andreas Siljeström	Olivier Charroin Stéphane Robert	0-6, 6-4, [10-7]
2010	Leonardo Tavares Simone Vagnozzi	Igor Kunitsyn Yuri Schukin	7-5, 7-6(4)
2009	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	Brian Dabul Nicolás Massú	7-6(2), 6-4
2008	Marco Crugnola Óscar Hernández	Werner Eschauer Philipp Oswald	7-6(4), 6-2
2007	Tomas Behrend Christopher Kas	Óscar Hernández Carles Poch-Gradin	6-0, 6-2
2006	Tomas Behrend Christopher Kas	Máximo González Sergio Roitman	7-6(5), 6-4
2005	Enzo Artoni Álex López Morón	Massimo Bertolini Tom Vanhoudt	5-7, 6-4, 7-6(12)
2004	Tomas Behrend Emilio Benfele Álvarez	Jaroslav Levinský David Škoch	6-2, 6-7(3), 7-6(10)
2003	Sebastián Prieto Jim Thomas	Juan-Ignacio Carrasco Albert Montañés	4-6, 6-1, 6-4
2002	Mariano Hood Luis Horna	František Čermák Petr Luxa	3-6, 6-3, 6-1
2001	Karsten Braasch Jens Knippschild	Feliciano López Francisco Roig	6-1, 6-1
2000	Jens Knippschild Jeff Tarango	Álex López Morón Albert Portas	6-2, 6-2
1999	Albert Portas Germán Puentes-Alcañiz	Tomás Carbonell Nebojsa Djordjevic	6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3
1998	Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig	Juan Balcells Emanuel Couto	6-2, 7-6
1997	Brandon Coupe Paul Rosner	Nebojsa Djordjevic Óscar Ortiz	6-4, 6-3
1996	Karsten Braasch Jens Knippschild	Cristian Brandi Filippo Messori	6-3, 6-4
1995	Nicklas Kulti Mikael Tillström	Bill Behrens Brendan Curry	7-6, 6-4
1994	Horacio de la Peña Emilio Sánchez Vicario	Gábor Köves László Markovits	6-4, 7-6

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