Halle Open 2026 Schedule & Order of Play

The entire grass-court season lasts little more than six weeks, and the Halle Open sits in the busiest part of it. The tournament takes place in Germany from 15 June to 21 June, which leaves anyone who reaches the closing rounds only a few days to recover before Wimbledon starts.

This page tracks the Halle Open 2026 schedule across the full week, with the daily order of play, the court each match is given, the start times and the rounds all added as the ATP confirms them. 

The official order of play is typically released around 24 hours in advance. We’ll update this page as soon as the schedule is officially confirmed.

Halle Open 2026 Schedule Overview

Halle has been staging grass-court tennis since 1993, and the 2026 tournament is the 33rd edition. It is played at the OWL Arena in Halle, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, and runs from Monday 15 June to Sunday 21 June 2026. The qualifying rounds come first, over the preceding weekend on 13 and 14 June. 

It is a grass-court event played outdoors, and it sits in the ATP Tour 500 category, a step below the Grand Slams and the Masters 1000 series. The singles draw holds 32 players, with a 16-team doubles draw running alongside it across the same week.

The event has a long association with one player in particular: Roger Federer won it ten times, more than anyone else in its history. The tournament itself is a men’s-only event, so there is no women’s singles or doubles here.

Alexander Bublik comes back as the defending singles champion after winning the 2025 final, and the 2026 field includes several high-ranked players – among them Alexander Zverev, Ben Shelton, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz, Andrey Rublev and Flavio Cobolli.

Full Halle Open 2026 Match Schedule (TBD)

A 32-player draw thins out quickly. The Halle Open compresses the whole bracket (from the opening round to Sunday’s final) into seven days of main-draw play, and the table below maps that run onto the calendar. 

The ATP sets the exact running order for each day shortly beforehand, so the round played on a given date can move a little depending on how the earlier matches go and on the weather.

The first two days carry the most tennis, with the full opening round spread across Monday and Tuesday and the early doubles slotted in around it. From there the field narrows through the second round in midweek, the quarter-finals on Friday, and the semi-finals and final across the closing weekend.

Halle Open 2026 Order of Play

The order of play is the running order of matches on each court for a single day. We’ll fill in the Halle Open 2026 order of play in the table below as the ATP releases the official times.

Note: The order of play is subject to change due to weather, match duration and tournament scheduling decisions.

Halle Open Key Dates

• Qualifying rounds: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June 2026
• First round (main draw): begins Monday 15 June 2026
• Second round: midweek, around Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 June 2026
• Quarter-finals: Friday 19 June 2026
• Semi-finals: Saturday 20 June 2026
• Final: Sunday 21 June 2026
• Draw release: confirmed by the ATP in the days before the main draw begins

Those are the fixed points. The exact match times inside each day arrive closer to the event and show up in the Halle Open 2026 order of play as they are confirmed.

When Is the Halle Open Final?

The final is set for Sunday 21 June 2026 on the Centre Court at the OWL Arena. It usually closes out the day, played after the rest of Sunday’s programme.

The doubles final also lands across the closing weekend, with its slot listed in the daily order of play once it is confirmed. The ATP publishes the start time for the final a day or two beforehand, like every other session, so it is worth a last check in the closing week. 

Falling on 21 June, the final leaves the two finalists barely a week before the start of Wimbledon.

How the Halle Open Order of Play Works

The order of play is the list of matches set for each court on a given day, in the order they are due to be played.

Each court runs its own sequence from the first match onwards. The opening match gets a fixed start time, say 11:00 or midday, and everything after it is listed in one of two ways. 

1. A match marked “to follow” starts whenever the previous one on that court finishes. 
2. A match with a “not before” time can start no earlier than that point, though it can always start later.

Grass-court matches swing a lot in length, so those “to follow” and “not before” times drift through the day. One long match pushes everything behind it back, and rain does the same, which is why the order of play is an approximate guide. Singles and doubles share the courts, so the doubles get slotted in around the singles. 

When you’ll read the Halle Open 2026 order of play, the two things worth looking at are which court a match is on and how many matches sit ahead of it, because both decide how well the listed time is likely to hold.

Halle Open Courts and Match Times

The main matches are played on the Centre Court at the OWL Arena, the tournament’s show court. The outside courts handle the early rounds, especially in the first couple of days when a lot of matches need to fit into the same window. As the draw shrinks and fewer matches are left, play moves onto the Centre Court.

Halle runs as a daytime event. The order starts in the late morning or early afternoon and works through in sequence, and the last matches can stretch into the evening if the earlier ones overrun.

The ATP publishes the times for each day about 24 hours ahead, which is why the order of play here stays provisional until those are out.

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