Taipei Open
Tennis tournament
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The Taipei Open or Taipei WTA Challenger (Chinese: 台北海碩網球公開賽) was a tournament for female professional tennis players played on indoor carpet courts. The event was classified as a WTA 125 tournament, and held annually in November in Taipei City, from 2008 until 2015, and was sponsored by the OEC Group. In 2012, the event was upgraded from a $100k ITF tournament to a WTA Challenger tournament. Its final edition took place in 2019.[1]
| Taipei WTA Challenger | |
|---|---|
| Defunct tennis tournament | |
| Event name | Taipei WTA Challenger |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Abolished | 2019 |
| Location | Taipei City Taiwan |
| Venue | Taipei Arena |
| Category | WTA 125K series |
| Surface | Carpet - indoors |
| Draw | 32S / 16Q / 16D |
| Prize money | US$125,000 (2019) |
| Website | www |
| Current champions (2019) | |
| Singles |  Vitalia Diatchenko |
| Doubles |  Lee Ya-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien |
History
In 2007, OEC Group Chairman Robert Han organized an ITF tournament in Taoyuan where the prize was $50,000 plus hotel.[2][3][4] OEC has retroactively referred to the event as the 2007 OEC Cup Taiwan Ladies Open.[2][5]
In October 18–20, 2008, the OEC Group held the 2008 OEC Taipei Ladies Open, which was a WTA-sanctioned ITF $100,000+H tournament.[6] held at the National Taiwan University Gymnasium and the Taipei Arena.[7][8] In 2010 and 2011, it was called the OEC Taipei Ladies Open, and it was also sometimes referred to as the Haishuo Cup (海碩盃).[2][9][10]
In 2012, the event was upgraded to a WTA 125 event.[6][11] It had attracted over 60,000 visitors.[12] In 2013, the tournament was renamed to OEC Taipei WTA Challenger.[2][13][14][15] and used that name subsequently.[16]
Past finals
Singles
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF $75k Kaohsiung event ↓ | ||||
| †2006 | Chan Yung-jan | Hsieh Su-wei | 5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–0 | |
| ↓ $50k Taoyuan event ↓ | ||||
| 2007 |  Akiko Morigami |  Yanina Wickmayer | 6–4, 7–6 (7–5) [17] | |
| ↓ $100k+H event ↓ | ||||
| 2008 |  Jarmila Gajdošová |  Corinna Dentoni | 4–6, 6–4, 6–1 | |
| 2009 | Chan Yung-jan | Ayumi Morita | 6–4, 2–6, 6–2 | |
| 2010 |  Peng Shuai [18] | Ayumi Morita | 6–1, 6–4 | |
| 2011 | Ayumi Morita | Kimiko Date-Krumm | 6–2, 6–2 | |
| ↓ WTA 125 event ↓ | ||||
| 2012 |  Kristina Mladenovic | Chang Kai-chen | 6–4, 6–3 | |
| 2013 | Alison Van Uytvanck | Yanina Wickmayer | 6–4, 6–2 | |
| 2014 | Vitalia Diatchenko | Chan Yung-jan | 1–6, 6–2, 6–4 | |
| 2015 |  Tímea Babos | Misaki Doi | 7–5, 6–3 | |
| 2016 | Evgeniya Rodina | Chang Kai-chen | 6–4, 6–3 | |
| 2017 |  Belinda Bencic |  Arantxa Rus | 7–6(7–3), 6–1 | |
| 2018 |  Luksika Kumkhum |  Sabine Lisicki | 6–1, 6–3 | |
| 2019 | Vitalia Diatchenko (2) | Tímea Babos | 6–3, 6–2 | |
| 2020 | cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
† – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources
Doubles
† – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources