For every ace served during the tournament, Erste Bank plants ten trees.

In 2025, a total of 780 aces were struck at the Wiener Stadthalle. That translates into 7,800 new trees, which will be planted this year in Austria’s Waldviertel region.

The project is carried out in partnership with waldsetzen.jetzt, an initiative dedicated to sustainable reforestation in Austria. Erste Bank employees actively support the effort as well, regularly taking part in tree-planting days as part of team-building activities.

As part of the Erste Bank Open, a total of 38,440 trees have already been sponsored by Erste Bank through this initiative in recent years.

This turns every ace into a tangible contribution to the environment.

A closer look at the stats also reveals who contributed the most “trees”: Matteo Berrettini leads the list with 33 aces – equal to 330 planted trees. He is followed by Alexander Bublik (32), Jannik Sinner (32) and Alexander Zverev (31).

Or, to put it simply: The harder the serve, the bigger the forest.

The accompanying instagram reel offers a glimpse into the planting efforts in the Waldviertel and shows how numbers on a scoreboard are transformed into real trees.