The Novak Tennis Centre, named after Novak Djokovic, hosted the competition. Originally, the Serbia Open was a staple of the ATP Tour. It took place for four consecutive years between 2009 and 2012. Djokovic’s family played a large part in running the competition in its early years.
The Serbian great’s grandfather, Goran Djokovic, was even the tournament director. However, after four years of operation, the Serbia Open was replaced by the Power Horse Cup in Düsseldorf in 2013. After ending in 2013, the Serbia Open did not take place for nine years until its return for the 2021 season.
In 2021, the event took the place of the Hungarian Open and returned as a mixed ATP and WTA 250 competition just for one season. The Novak Tennis Centre then hosted two more editions of the tournament before it ended again in 2022.
However, Djokovic has spoken about relaunching the event when possible in the future. Due to its status as an ATP 250 level competition, the Serbia Open had a main singles draw and doubles competition.
In the singles, 32 players competed, while 16 doubles pairs took part in the doubles. Even though the Serbia Open was a stop-start, even on the ATP Tour between 2009 and 2022, many elite-level players participated.
Djokovic was the most decorated singles player to compete as he won two titles in 2009 and 2011 and reached the 2022 final. Other notable singles victors at the tournament included Matteo Berrettini, Andreas Seppi, and Sam Querrey.
In the 2022 final, Andrey Rublev triumphed over Djokovic to win the title. In the doubles draw, six different partners won the title. Among the previous doubles winners were the all-Croatian duo of Ivan Sabanov and Matej Sabanov, who changed their nationality representation to Serbia later in 2021.
