The 2001 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2001 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from February 19 through February 25, 2001.
The singles line up featured World No. 1, US Open, Canada and Paris Masters champion Marat Safin, Sydney Olympics gold medalist and Moscow champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Washington and Toulouse champion Àlex Corretja. Also competing were Vienna and Brighton champion Tim Henman, Australian Open runner-up and Lyon champion Arnaud Clément, Dominik Hrbatý, Sébastien Grosjean and Juan Carlos Ferrero.
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