A fixture in the tour's clay court calendar for nearly 20 years, the WTA was expected to return to the German capital this year after a 12-year absence from the tour calendar with a Premier-level grass court event, before the coronavirus pandemic pushed professional tennis into a hiatus.
Nonetheless, an unofficial exhibition event was announced for the city at the end of May, bringing together six WTA players and six ATP players for competition in two locations and on two surfaces - with strict limitations on the number of spectators permitted and other social distancing precautions in place.
The action kicked off on Monday at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, on the stadium court named for German legend Stefanie Graf, as Anastasija Sevastova and Petra Kvitova won the two quarterfinal matches that were contested.
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