DATE: Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: $710,900
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Angelique Kerber
Seeds:
1 KERBER, Angelique
2 PLISKOVA, Karolina
3 CIBULKOVA, Dominika
4 HALEP, Simona
5 MUGURUZA, Garbiñe
6 KONTA, Johanna
7 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka
8 KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana
First played in 1978 and winner of the WTA's Premier Tournament Of The Year award in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is Europe's oldest indoor women's event and is the lone indoor clay tournament on the calendar. Previously a fall hardcourt event, Stuttgart became a red clay tournament staged in the spring in 2009, making it ideal preparation for Roland Garros. In fact, the clay comes from France and its grain size of 0.1 mm is the same that is used at the French Open.
Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwest Germany. The eighth largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,068 (October 2014) while the greater Stuttgart Metropolitan Region has a population of 5.3 million (2008), being the fourth-biggest in Germany after the Rhine-Ruhr area, Berlin/Brandenburg and Frankfurt/Rhine-Main. The city lies at the centre of a densely populated area, surrounded by a ring of smaller towns. This area called Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million.
Stuttgart is spread across a variety of hills (many of them vineyards), valleys and parks – unusual for a German city and often a source of surprise to visitors who primarily associate the city with its industrial reputation as the "cradle of the automobile". Stuttgart has the status of Stadtkreis, a type of self-administrating urban county. It is also the seat of the State parliament and State Government of Baden-Württemberg, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Wurttemberg as well as one of the two co-seats of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
At the centre of Stuttgart lies its main square, Schlossplatz. As well as being the largest square in Stuttgart, it stands at the crossover point between the city's shopping area, Schlossgarten park which runs down to the river Neckar, Stuttgart's two central castles and major museums and residential areas to the south west. Königstraße, Stuttgart's most important shopping street which runs along the northwestern edge of Schlossplatz, claims to be the longest pedestrianised street in Germany.
Stuttgart Tourism
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: $710,900
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Angelique Kerber
Seeds:
1 KERBER, Angelique
2 PLISKOVA, Karolina
3 CIBULKOVA, Dominika
4 HALEP, Simona
5 MUGURUZA, Garbiñe
6 KONTA, Johanna
7 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka
8 KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana
First played in 1978 and winner of the WTA's Premier Tournament Of The Year award in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is Europe's oldest indoor women's event and is the lone indoor clay tournament on the calendar. Previously a fall hardcourt event, Stuttgart became a red clay tournament staged in the spring in 2009, making it ideal preparation for Roland Garros. In fact, the clay comes from France and its grain size of 0.1 mm is the same that is used at the French Open.
Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwest Germany. The eighth largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,068 (October 2014) while the greater Stuttgart Metropolitan Region has a population of 5.3 million (2008), being the fourth-biggest in Germany after the Rhine-Ruhr area, Berlin/Brandenburg and Frankfurt/Rhine-Main. The city lies at the centre of a densely populated area, surrounded by a ring of smaller towns. This area called Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million.
Stuttgart is spread across a variety of hills (many of them vineyards), valleys and parks – unusual for a German city and often a source of surprise to visitors who primarily associate the city with its industrial reputation as the "cradle of the automobile". Stuttgart has the status of Stadtkreis, a type of self-administrating urban county. It is also the seat of the State parliament and State Government of Baden-Württemberg, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Wurttemberg as well as one of the two co-seats of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
At the centre of Stuttgart lies its main square, Schlossplatz. As well as being the largest square in Stuttgart, it stands at the crossover point between the city's shopping area, Schlossgarten park which runs down to the river Neckar, Stuttgart's two central castles and major museums and residential areas to the south west. Königstraße, Stuttgart's most important shopping street which runs along the northwestern edge of Schlossplatz, claims to be the longest pedestrianised street in Germany.
Stuttgart Tourism
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