Taipei Open

The Taipei Open or Taipei WTA Challenger (Chinese: 台北海碩網球公開賽) is a tournament for female professional tennis players played on indoor carpet courts. The event is currently classified as an WTA 125K tournament. It has been held annually in November in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 2008 until 2015, and was sponsored by the OEC Group. In 2012, the event was upgraded from a $100,000 ITF tournament to a WTA Challenger tournament.

Taipei WTA Challenger
Tournament information
Event nameTaipei WTA Challenger
LocationTaipei City
Taiwan
VenueTaipei Arena
CategoryWTA 125K series
SurfaceCarpet - indoors
Draw32S / 16Q / 16D
Prize moneyUS$125,000 (2019)
Websiteoectennis.com
Current champions (2019)
Singles Vitalia Diatchenko
Doubles Lee Ya-hsuan
Wu Fang-hsien
Chuang Chia-jung has lifted the doubles trophy three times at this event as the home-crowd favourite
Japan's Ayumi Morita has reached the singles final three times here; winning the title in 2011 and finishing runner-up in 2009 & 2010

History

In 2007, OEC Group Chairman Robert Han organized an ITF tournament in Taoyuan where the prize was $50,000 plus hotel.[1][2][3] OEC has retroactively referred to the event as the 2007 OEC Cup Taiwan Ladies Open.[1][4]

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.[5] held at the National Taiwan University Gymnasium and the Taipei Arena.[6][7] In 2010 and 2011 it was called the OEC Taipei Ladies Open, and it has also been referred to as the Haishuo Cup (海碩盃).[1][8][9]

In 2012, the event was upgraded to a WTA 125K series event.[5][10] It had attracted over 60,000 visitors.[11] In 2013, the tournament was renamed to OEC Taipei WTA Challenger.[1][12][13][14] and has used that name since.[15]

Past finals

Singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score
↓   ITF 75K Kaohsiung event   ↓
2006 Chan Yung-jan Hsieh Su-wei5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–0
↓   ITF 50K Taoyuan event   ↓
†2007 Akiko Morigami Yanina Wickmayer6–4, 7–6 (7–5) [16]
↓   ITF 100K+H event   ↓
2008 Jarmila Gajdošová Corinna Dentoni4–6, 6–4, 6–1
2009 Chan Yung-jan Ayumi Morita6–4, 2–6, 6–2
2010 Peng Shuai [17] Ayumi Morita6–1, 6–4
2011 Ayumi Morita Kimiko Date-Krumm6–2, 6–2
↓   WTA 125K series event   ↓
2012 Kristina Mladenovic Chang Kai-chen6–4, 6–3
2013 Alison Van Uytvanck Yanina Wickmayer6–4, 6–2
2014 Vitalia Diatchenko Chan Yung-jan1–6, 6–2, 6–4
2015 Tímea Babos Misaki Doi7–5, 6–3
2016 Evgeniya Rodina Chang Kai-chen6–4, 6–3
2017 Belinda Bencic Arantxa Rus7–6(7–3), 6–1
2018 Luksika Kumkhum Sabine Lisicki6–1, 6–3
2019 Vitalia Diatchenko (2) Tímea Babos6–3, 6–2

† – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources

Doubles
Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓   ITF 50K Taoyuan event   ↓
†2007 Chan Yung-jan
Chan Hao-ching		 Hsieh Shu-ying
Hsieh Su-wei		6–1, 2–6, [14–12][16]
↓   ITF 100K+H event   ↓
2008 Chuang Chia-jung
Hsieh Su-wei		 Hsu Wen-hsin
Hwang I-hsuan		6–3, 6–3
2009 Chan Yung-jan (2)
Chuang Chia-jung (2)		 Yayuk Basuki
Riza Zalameda		6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
2010 Chang Kai-chen
Chuang Chia-jung (3)		 Hsieh Su-wei
Sania Mirza		6–4, 6–2
2011 Chan Yung-jan (3)
Zheng Jie		 Karolína Plíšková
Kristýna Plíšková		7–6(7–5), 5–7, [10–5]
↓   WTA 125K series event   ↓
2012 Chan Hao-ching (2)
Kristina Mladenovic		 Chang Kai-chen
Olga Govortsova		5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
2013 Caroline Garcia
Yaroslava Shvedova		 Anna-Lena Friedsam
Alison Van Uytvanck		6–3, 6–3
2014 Chan Hao-ching (3)
Chan Yung-jan (4)		 Chang Kai-chen
Chuang Chia-jung		6–4, 6–3
2015 Kanae Hisami
Kotomi Takahata		 Marina Melnikova
Elise Mertens		6–1, 6–2
2016 Natela Dzalamidze
Veronika Kudermetova		 Chang Kai-chen
Chuang Chia-jung		4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
2017 Veronika Kudermetova (2)
Aryna Sabalenka		 Monique Adamczak
Naomi Broady		2–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–6]
2018 Ankita Raina
Karman Thandi		 Olga Doroshina
Natela Dzalamidze		6–3, 5–7, [12–12], ret.
2019 Lee Ya-hsuan
Wu Fang-hsien		 Dalila Jakupović
Danka Kovinić		4–6, 6–4, [10–7]

† – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources

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