2025 BMW Open: Who are the top seeds? When is the draw?
The Bavarian International Tennis Championships – also known by its sponsor name the BMW Open by Bitpanda – is the first of two clay-court events that are held in Germany annually with the other being the Hamburg Open.
This year’s ATP 500 event in Munich will once again feature the reigning German No 1 as Alexander Zverev has been confirmed for the tournament while his compatriot Jan-Lennard Struff will return to defend his title.
Zverev, though, has not had much success in recent years at his home event as he lost in the quarter-final in 2024 while the previous two years he exited in the second round.
When will the 2025 BMW Open take place?
This year marks the 109th edition of the tournament with the first event taking place way back in 1899.
The 2025 event will run from April 12-20 with the first two days allocated to qualifying before the main draw gets underway on April 14.
Speaking of the main draw…
The official draw will take place at 11:00 local time on April 12 on Court 1 and the rankings and seeds have already been determined
What about the seeded players?
World No 2 Zverev will headline his home tournament as he will once again get the top-honour status at the ATP 500 event.
He is followed by the American pair of Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton, and Felix Auger-Auger Aliassime.
1. Alexander Zverev (world ranking 2)
2. Taylor Fritz (4)
3. Ben Shelton (14)
4. Felix Auger-Aliassime (19)
5. Ugo Humbert (20)
6. Francisco Cerundolo (22)
7. Hubert Hurkacz (26)
8. Jiri Lehecka (27)
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Fritz and Hurkacz, though, have struggled with injury as they both withdrew from this week’s Monte Carlo Masters as the former is battling with an abdominal injury while the latter has a lower back problem.
Should there be any withdrawals then Denis Shapovalov (29) and Matteo Berrettini (34) are next in line to be seeded.
Munich ranking points breakdown
The event is a 32-player singles draw with no points on offer for the first round and there are no byes for the top seeds.
Winner: 500 points
Finalist: 330 points
Semi-finalists: 200 points
Quarter-finalists: 100 points
Second round: 50 points
First round: 0 points
Qualifier: 25 points
Second-round qualifying: 13 points
First-round qualifying: 0 points
What about the prize money on offer?
Organisers have so far only confirmed the total prize money of €2,500,000 (roughly $2,7m) with a financial commitment of €2,747,360. The complete breakdown of prize money is yet to be revealed.
Last year Struff earned €88,125 ($95,700) for winning the title while runner-up Fritz walked away with €51,400 ($55,818).
Former winners…
Besides Struff, Zverev is the only other former Munich champion in the main draw as he won the title in 2017 and 2018. Holger Rune won back-to-back tournaments in 2022 and 2023, but he has opted to compete at the Barcelona Open this year.
