 It is held annually at the Wiener Stadthalle, in Vienna, Austria, since 1974.The event was also known as the "Stadthalle Open", and as the "Fischer-Grand Prix" from 1976 to 1985, as the "CA-TennisTrophy" from 1986 to 2003, as the "BA-CA-TennisTrophy" from 2004 to 2007 and as the "Bank Austria TennisTrophy" from 2008 to 2010, before being renamed to "Erste Bank Open" in 2011.Austria's most successful tennis player ever, Thomas Muster, famously never won the Vienna Open, despite having been runner-up on 3 occasions (1988, 1993, 1995), and a semi final loser on another 4 occasions (1987, 1989, 1990, 1994).