Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz won the Hamburg sand‑court final on Saturday, beating Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 to claim the Hamburg Open 2026 doubles title for the third time as a pair.
The scoreline only hints at how tight the match was: Krawietz and Pütz closed it with a 10-8 match tiebreak after splitting the two full sets. The victory completes a trio of Rothenbaum trophies for the duo, who previously lifted the Hamburg title together in 2023 and 2024, and adds to a season that already includes an ATP Finals crown in Turin in 2024.
The numbers behind the win underline the pair’s control in Hamburg. According to the tournament account, Krawietz and Pütz reached the final unbeaten, having not dropped a set and surrendering 18 games on their way in, and they had played a total of 3:02:20 hours on court before the championship match. One article framed their run at the Rothenbaum as an 11‑match unbeaten stretch for the pair.
That dominance contrasted sharply with the path of their opponents. Doumbia and Reboul logged 5:08:52 hours to reach the final, having lost two sets and 28 games along the way, yet they pushed the champions to the wire in the match tiebreak. The French pair also ousted Mark Schnaitter and Jakob Wallner in the semifinal, a 6-7, 6-3, 10-5 win over the men who had taken their first ATP 500 title in Munich in April.
The road to the final was not entirely symmetrical. Krawietz and Pütz advanced in part after Guido Andreozzi withdrew because of a right‑leg injury, a development that shortened one of their potential hurdles. Earlier in the week, another report noted the pair had beaten the German combination of Erler and Miedler 6-3, 7-5 in 79:33 minutes, evidence of their steady form at the Rothenbaum this week.
Context matters here: the Bitpanda Hamburg Open is a sand‑court tournament at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center and is one of the 16 ATP Tour 500 events, featuring 32 top singles players and 16 doubles pairs in its draw. The tournament has a recent history of German success—the singles crown went to Alexander Zverev in 2023, the first German winner in 30 years—while Pütz and Krawietz have made the doubles competition a place of repeated returns.
There is a tension in the result that keeps it from being merely ceremonial. The champions’ unbeaten streak and minimal games lost show clear superiority on paper, but Doumbia and Reboul’s greater time on court and their ability to stretch the final into a tight match tiebreak highlight the fragility even within a dominant week. Add to that the withdrawal that eased one projected quarterfinal, and the narrative is less one of invincibility than of a top pair navigating a draw that was at times rugged and at times arrested by injury.
Both men spoke plainly about what Hamburg means to them. Pütz said the tournament is tip‑top and that they feel very comfortable there every time, and Krawietz said it is always a huge pleasure to come to the Rothenbaum. Their words matched the result: a third shared Hamburg crown, another trophy to add to an already impressive partnership highlighted by the ATP Finals title in Turin in 2024.
The immediate consequence is clear and specific: Krawietz and Pütz leave Hamburg having reinforced an unmistakable pattern at the Rothenbaum and carrying tangible momentum into the clay swing ahead. They are heading to the French Open in Paris after this win, and their combination of match sharpness, recent major‑stage success and a three‑peat at a single tournament makes them one of the most watched teams entering the next big fortnight on clay.
