The second edition of the ATP Challengers Saturn Oil Open, the tennis tournament in the greater Rhein Sieg region, starts as a combined event

When the surprise winner Lukas Klein (SVK) won the 1st Saturn Oil Open from qualifying at the end of May last year, the organizer Marc Raffel, co-tournament director Marc-Kevin Goellner and the organizers of the host TC RW-Troisdorf eV took part Uwe Maaß, Volker de Cloedt and Claus Dreser are already preparing for the second edition of ATP Tennis at Rhein & Sieg . This will now take place again from May 28th to June 4th, 2023 at the beautiful TC RW tennis facility. In addition to the men's competition, there will also be a women's competition for the first time, as a so-called combined event. “Tournaments of this type - including Grand Slams - are particularly interesting for spectators,” says organizer Marc Raffel, “but they also pose an enormous logistical challenge for us organizers.”

As TennisTraveller also taking part in the second edition as a tournament partner , we are really happy about it and have a brilliant travel prize in our luggage.

“It’s a big plank what we’re drilling there,” says Marc Kevin Goellner

Twice as many matches mean a lot more staff and preparatory work. This time there will be a total of 100,000 US dollars in prize money, twice as much as last year, “a big challenge for us,” says Marc Kevin Goellner, a former Davis Cup winner with Germany. The game is played on six courts, the center court holds a good 1,200 spectators, and the total capacity of the facility is over 3,000 spectators, as the other six tournament courts also offer plenty of space for spectators. Several catering stands cater to spectators and guests on site. There will be a 32 or 24 qualification and two 32 main fields (women and men) as well as two doubles competitions. Day tickets are already available online at www.saturnoilopen.com from 15 euros, and for the first time also as afterwork and weekend tickets.

Great supporting program including a concert by KING LOUI

The supporting program around the Saturn Oil Open is impressive: from a reading of the new tennis book “Tennishölle” by Daniel Duhr to the opening party, Kids Day with the Kreissparkasse Köln and ATP Business Night to Sport meets Art, the live concert with KING LOUI as well as the new celebrity talk format “Loss mer schwade” and Pro AM tournament, there is something for everyone. During the week, the game starts at 11 a.m. with one match of the day not before 5:30 p.m., the final day starts on Sunday, June 4th, 2023 at 12 p.m.