Dear visitors,
we hope you enjoyed following our tournament on this website. We tried to give a chance to everybody to follow the happenings at SAOPEN2003, even to those that could not be here in Sarajevo to experience it live. We invite you to come next year.
We are in the process of uploading some more picture that we took this week. Click on the link Photo gallery to see them.

Thank you all,

Gorjan Bilalagic
SAOPEN2003

Richard Gasquet has won the first Sarajevo Open. The young frenchman beat Dick Norman 6/1, 7/6 to claim the title.

Dick Norman and Richard Gaquet are going to fight it out for the title of the first ATP Challenger Series Sarajevo Open.

Czech pair Tomas Berdych and Jaroslav Levinsky won the doubles title. They beat the swedish pair Simon Aspelin and Johan Landsberg 1/6, 7/6, 6/4

Aspelin/Landsberg - Berdych/Levinsky tied at 6/1, 6/7

Richard Gasquet beat Janko Tipsarevic 6/3, 6/1 to reach the final of SAOPEN2003. He will meet the first seed Dick Norman, who better than the Franch Nicolas Thomann in two sets 7/6, 6/4.

12:30 Gasquet vs. Tipsarevic
followed by Thomann vs. Norman
followed by Aspelin/Landsberg vs. Berdych/Levinsky

Richard Gasquet, Dick Norman and Janko Tipsarevic have fought their way in the semifinals.
Last quarterfinal is tonight at 7pm.
Kunitsyn vs. Thomann

Richard Gasquet beat Dennis van Scheppingen to reach the semifinals. Richard was down 5/1 in the second set and came back to win that set 7/6.

Click on the Photo gallery link to see the pictures from last night's PLAYER'S PARTY

Other singles:
Norman vs. Johansson
Vacek vs. Peya
Thomann vs. Wessels

PLAYER'S PARTY is tonight at 8pm. The party is going to be held at Coloseum, which is one of tournament's sponsors.

Ismar Gorcic played a great match last night against the russian Igor Kunitsyn, but lost 7/6 4/6 6/7. The match lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), between noon and 2 pm you'll get a chance to meet Sarajevo Open 2003 tennis players and let your kids have fun in front of Sarajevo Cathedral.

We recommend: 7 pm - Racic, Igor (BIH) vs. Carraz, Gregory (FRA)

On Monday, March 10th, Sarajevo Open 2003 main draw started.

Radic (CRO) vs. Kadric (BIH) (2nd match of the central court) and Racic (BIH) vs. Carraz (FRA) (not before 7pm)

First round of qualifications has been played on Saturday. Second and third rounds are scheduled for today. The schedule of today's matches is available on the ORDER OF PLAY page. The main draw is out! Main draw starts on Monday.

Sarajevo is an Olympic city and the host of numerous sporting events including Tennis Davis Cup duel between former states Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and the exhibition match between Monika Sele? and Mary Joe Fernandez.

Another tennis spectacle is taking place in Sarajevo. It is the ATP Challenger Sarajevo Open 2003. The project is initiated and will be carried out by Tennis Club Sporting from Sarajevo headed by the former successful player, currently youth coach and upcoming organization director of large tennis events, Mr. Senad Had?ime?i?.

The Challenger Series includes tournaments organized by the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). The prize money is $ 25 000 plus hospitality (approximately $ 50 000). Besides the prize money the players will be competing for ATP points. The winner will get about 50 points.

This project is supported electronically and via traditional media through our media coverage on FTV, Radio Stari Grad and Dnevni Avaz. Reviews of everyday events are planned to run during the duration of the tournament in the evening hours (length: 30 min.) and also live coverage of semifinal and final matches.

We wish all participants and guests a pleasant stay in our city.

Sincerely yours,

Tournament Organization Board
First ATP Challenger Sarajevo Open 2003.