Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart

Dates
16. April bis 24. April 2011, Porsche Arena, Stuttgart

Organiser
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart

Tournament Director
Markus Günthardt

Operating Tournament Director
Anke Huber

Press
Christian Dau
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG

Claus-Peter Andorka
KircherBurkhardt Stuttgart GmbH

Phone: +49 (0)711-900-510
Mobil: +49 (0)172-6911-517
E-Mail: claus-peter.andorka@kircher-burkhardt.com

During the tournament Claus-Peter Andorka will be your on site contact person in the Press Centre in the Porsche Arena.

Competing Players
32 in singles qualifying, 32 in singles main draw, 16 main draw doubles pairs

Start of Play (Subject to change.)
Qualifying:
Saturday, 16 April, 10.00 am; Sunday, 17 April, 11.00 am

Main draw:
Monday, 18 April to Friday, 22 April, 2.00 pm each day

Semifinals:
Saturday, 23 April 2.00 pm 1. Semifinal, 6:30 pm 2. Semifinal

Final:
Sunday, 24 April, 3.45 pm, Doubles Final 1.00 pm
(all times are local time)

Television
The Eurosport and Eurosport 2 sports channels are expected to televise live up to 19 matches out of the Porsche Arena.

Tickets
Tickets are available via the Easy Ticket service – either by phone on +49 711-2555-555 or the Internet at www.easyticket.de and at the Porsche Arena’s box offices for the duration of the tournament. Prices range from five to 75 euro depending on the day and seating category. Tournament week tickets are available for 280 and 316 euro. Also available are ticket specials and there are various attractive ticket packages for the semifinals and final.

Prize Money
721,000 US dollars total prize money

Main Prize
The winner will receive a Porsche sports car in addition to the prize money.

Status Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is one out of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s 20 Premier Events. It is the highest tournament category after the four Grand Slam tournaments. Since 2009 the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is played indoors on red clay as first tournament in tennis history.

WTA Tour 2011
53 tournaments in 32 countries with a total prize money of over 86 million dollars.

Internet Databank
The databank provides texts, tournament updates, background information and images free of charge.
http://presse.porsche.de

A user ID can be obtained from:
stefan.steiner@porsche.de


A Look Back

2010 Final Singles
Justine Henin (BEL) – Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6:4, 2:6, 6:1

2010 Final Doubles
Gisela Dulko (ARG)/Flavia Pennetta (ITA) – Kveta Peschke (CZE)/Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 3:6, 7:6, 10:5

Spectators in 2010
A total of 38,000 spectators were party to the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix live in the Porsche Arena.

First Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
First played in 1978, it is therefore Europe’s oldest women’s indoor tournament. The first winner was the American Tracy Austin, who went on to win the next three Grand Prix.

The Most Successful
Martina Navratilova (USA), six wins; Tracy Austin (USA) and Martina Hingis (SUI), four wins each; Lindsay Davenport (USA) three wins; Anke Huber (GER), Kim Clijsters (BEL) and Justine Henin (BEL) two wins each.

Men’s Grand Prix
The only Porsche Tennis Grand Prix for men was held in 1979. Two Porsche Grand Prix took place in that year. For the record: the Pole Wojtek Fibak beat the Argentine Guillermo Vilas in the final and won a Porsche 928.

Internet
www.porsche-tennis.de