The men's defending champion was Austria's Mario He, who won the 2018 Veldhoven Open after defeating Albania's Eklent Kaçi 9–8 in the final.

He defended his championship, defeating Kaçi in the first knockout round, Germany's Joshua Filler in the semi-finals and Estonia's Denis Grabe in the final 9–2.

[3][4] The defending champion of the men's event was Mario He, who won the 2018 Veldhoven Open defeating Eklent Kaçi in the final.

[9] Number one-ranked Euro Tour player Eklent Kaçi reached the winner's playoff round, before losing 6–9 to Sergey Lutsker.

Ten-time Euro Tour event winner Niels Feijen failed to make the knockout round.

He was awarded a walkover in his first round match, defeating Tim De Ruyter 9–2 before losing 6–9 to Marco Dorenburg.

[11] Three-time world champion Oliver Ortmann also failed to progress, despite defeating fourth seed Ralf Souquet 9–6.

Marc Bijsterbosch faced Soufi, after a 9–3 win over Radosław Babica and a whitewash of Mateusz Śniegocki.

[9] Alex Montpellier [de] defeated Greece's Nick Malai (9–6) and Nikos Ekonomopoulos (9–5) en route to the quarter-finals.

[9] Poland's Konrad Juszczyszyn defeated 1999 World Pool Masters champion Alex Lely 9–4.

[9] Reigning world nine-ball champion Joshua Filler advanced to the quarter-finals after defeating Marcel Price and Serbia's Aleksa Pecelj.

[15] Both Mario He and Joshua Filler progressed to the semi-finals following victories over Oliver Szolnoki and Fedor Gorst, respectively.

With the victory, Filler was guaranteed to regain the top spot in the Euro Tour rankings, which was previously held by Eklent Kaci.

Jasmin Ouschan and Kristina Tkach were tied for number one in the women's Euro Tour rankings.

[23][24] The knockout round saw a repeat of the Austria Open final, with Ouschan facing Marharyta Fefilava.

Ouschan won her quarter-final match against Diana Khodjaeva 7–1 to guarantee securing the number one spot in the rankings.

[24][25] Veronika Hubrtová also advanced to the semi-finals after defeating Yvonne Ullmann-Hybler in the round-of-16 and Germany's Ina Kaplan in the quarter-finals (both 7–4).