The European Open is Belgium’s ATP 250 week on the men’s tour calendar. It began in Antwerp in 2016, moved to Brussels in 2025, and in 2026 it runs from 19 to 25 October, the week after the Shanghai Masters and the week before the ATP 500s in Basel and Vienna.
Its short history already has a clear shape: indoor hard courts, a quick turnaround from the Asian swing, and a list of champions that runs from Andy Murray’s win as the world No. 243 to Jannik Sinner’s title at 20.
When and where
The 2026 BNP Paribas Fortis European Open is scheduled for 19 to 25 October in Brussels, according to the ATP. It shares the week with two other ATP 250 events, in Almaty and Lyon. The tournament is played indoors on hard courts. From 2016 to 2024 it was held at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp; the 2025 edition was the first in Brussels.
Draw and format
The singles draw has 28 players and the doubles draw 16 teams, the standard ATP 250 format. In a 28-player draw the top four seeds receive first-round byes. Qualifying is played over the opening weekend; in 2024 it ran on the Sunday and Monday, with both finals on the closing Sunday. Matches are best of three sets.
Ranking points
The ATP published this singles breakdown for the 2024 edition, in line with the tour’s 250 structure:
- Winner: 250
- Finalist: 165
- Semi-finalist: 100
- Quarter-finalist: 50
- Round of 16: 25
- First round (round of 28): 0
Past champions
- 2016: Richard Gasquet [UNVERIFIED: year inferred from the ATP’s list of the event’s eight single-title champions through 2023; confirm on the ATP tournament page]
- 2017: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
- 2018: Kyle Edmund, def. Gael Monfils 3-6, 7-6(2), 7-6(4)
- 2019: Andy Murray
- 2020: Ugo Humbert [UNVERIFIED: year from an ATP report title seen in citation only, not opened; confirm on the ATP tournament page]
- 2021: Jannik Sinner
- 2022: Felix Auger-Aliassime
- 2023: Alexander Bublik, def. Arthur Fils 6-4, 6-4
- 2024: Roberto Bautista Agut, def. Jiri Lehecka
- 2025 (Brussels): Felix Auger-Aliassime, def. Jiri Lehecka 7-6(2), 6-7(6), 6-2
Auger-Aliassime’s 2025 final took two hours and 34 minutes. He could not convert two championship points in the second-set tie-break and regrouped to win the deciding set. The ATP counted 17 aces and three break points saved from three faced. It made him the first player to win the tournament twice, and it cost Lehecka a second straight final on Belgian soil after his loss to Bautista Agut in Antwerp the year before.
Records
The ATP’s record list, published before the 2024 edition, notes that Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was the oldest champion at 32 in 2017 and Sinner the youngest at 20 in 2021. Auger-Aliassime was the highest-ranked champion, at No. 10 in 2022, and Murray the lowest-ranked, at No. 243 in 2019. Diego Schwartzman held the record for match wins, with 12.
Where it fits in the season
Brussels sits at the start of the European indoor season, with Basel and Vienna the following week and the Paris Masters after that. For players near the cut in the Race to Turin, 250 points in late October can matter. Auger-Aliassime’s 2025 title moved him to ninth in the ATP’s Live Race, 330 points behind Lorenzo Musetti.
How to watch
The ATP directs viewers to Tennis TV for live streaming of the tournament, and publishes a TV schedule by country on its tournament pages.
2026 Snapshot — 29 September 2026
- Dates: 19 to 25 October 2026, Brussels, indoor hard courts.
- Defending champion: Felix Auger-Aliassime.
- Entry list: not yet confirmed from an official source at the time of writing.
This snapshot is dated and will change. The tournament record above does not.
