Taipei Open

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.

This article is about the tennis tournament. For other uses, see Taiwan Open.
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)
Websitewww.oectennis.com
Current champions (2019)
SinglesRussia Vitalia Diatchenko
DoublesChinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsuan
Chinese Taipei 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 was also sometimes referred to as the Haishuo Cup (海碩盃).[1][8][9]

In 2012, the event was upgraded to a WTA 125 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 used that name subsequently.[15]

Past finals

Singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score
↓   ITF $75k Kaohsiung event   ↓
†2006Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-janChinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–0
↓   $50k Taoyuan event   ↓
2007Japan Akiko MorigamiBelgium Yanina Wickmayer6–4, 7–6 (7–5) [16]
↓   $100k+H event   ↓
2008Slovakia Jarmila GajdošováItaly Corinna Dentoni4–6, 6–4, 6–1
2009Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-janJapan Ayumi Morita6–4, 2–6, 6–2
2010China Peng Shuai [17]Japan Ayumi Morita6–1, 6–4
2011Japan Ayumi MoritaJapan Kimiko Date-Krumm6–2, 6–2
↓   WTA 125 event   ↓
2012France Kristina MladenovicChinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen6–4, 6–3
2013Belgium Alison Van UytvanckBelgium Yanina Wickmayer6–4, 6–2
2014Russia Vitalia DiatchenkoChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan1–6, 6–2, 6–4
2015Hungary Tímea BabosJapan Misaki Doi7–5, 6–3
2016Russia Evgeniya RodinaChinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen6–4, 6–3
2017Switzerland Belinda BencicNetherlands Arantxa Rus7–6(7–3), 6–1
2018Thailand Luksika KumkhumGermany Sabine Lisicki6–1, 6–3
2019Russia Vitalia Diatchenko (2)Hungary Tímea Babos6–3, 6–2
2020cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

Doubles
Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓   ITF $50k Taoyuan event   ↓
†2007Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan
Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching		Chinese Taipei Hsieh Shu-ying
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei		6–1, 2–6, [14–12][16]
↓   $100k+H event   ↓
2008Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei		Chinese Taipei Hsu Wen-hsin
Chinese Taipei Hwang I-hsuan		6–3, 6–3
2009Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan (2)
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung (2)		Indonesia Yayuk Basuki
United States Riza Zalameda		6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
2010Chinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung (3)		Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
India Sania Mirza		6–4, 6–2
2011Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan (3)
China Zheng Jie		Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková
Czech Republic Kristýna Plíšková		7–6(7–5), 5–7, [10–5]
↓   WTA 125 event   ↓
2012Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching (2)
France Kristina Mladenovic		Chinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen
Belarus Olga Govortsova		5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
2013France Caroline Garcia
Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova		Germany Anna-Lena Friedsam
Belgium Alison Van Uytvanck		6–3, 6–3
2014Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching (3)
Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan (4)		Chinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung		6–4, 6–3
2015Japan Kanae Hisami
Japan Kotomi Takahata		Russia Marina Melnikova
Belgium Elise Mertens		6–1, 6–2
2016Russia Natela Dzalamidze
Russia Veronika Kudermetova		Chinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung		4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
2017Russia Veronika Kudermetova (2)
Belarus Aryna Sabalenka		Australia Monique Adamczak
United Kingdom Naomi Broady		2–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–6]
2018India Ankita Raina
India Karman Thandi		Russia Olga Doroshina
Russia Natela Dzalamidze		6–3, 5–7, [12–12] ret.
2019Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsuan
Chinese Taipei Wu Fang-hsien		Slovenia Dalila Jakupović
Montenegro Danka Kovinić		4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
2020cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

See also

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