Noted: New Name and Logo for Hamburg European Open
“Match Point”
(Est. 1892) "The Hamburg European Open welcomes 32 top singles players and 16 doubles teams to the summer clay-court event as one of the 13 ATP Tour 500 stops. The tournament is held in the heart of Hamburg at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center, which features a retractable roof stadium."
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Graphically it's based on the match point in the 2018 Hamburg finals between Basilashvili and Mayer. And it will change every year in reference to the final match point.
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The old logo… whatevs, functional but not good. The new logo is… different. It’s rare to find a relatively mainstream logo that purposely looks messy and confusing. Not because I’m that smart but my initial thought was that this was indeed the trajectory of a rally and the concept that it’s modeled after the match point of the previous tournament is very clever — it will be interesting when the match point is an ace serve — but the visual result is so weird. I mean, I like its boldness and thinking behind it but, yeah, unexpected. The video killed me, though, I could not stop laughing. TENNIS.