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Tennis tournament
Taipei WTA Challenger
Defunct tennis tournament
Event nameTaipei WTA Challenger
Founded2006
Abolished2019
LocationTaipei City
Taiwan
VenueTaipei Arena
CategoryWTA 125K series
SurfaceCarpet - indoors
Draw32S / 16Q / 16D
Prize moneyUS$125,000 (2019)
Websitewww.oectennis.com
Current champions (2019)
Singles👁 Russia
Vitalia Diatchenko
Doubles👁 Chinese Taipei
Lee Ya-hsuan
👁 Chinese Taipei
Wu Fang-hsien
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Chuang Chia-jung has lifted the doubles trophy three times at this event as the home-crowd favourite
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Japan's Ayumi Morita has reached the singles final three times here; winning the title in 2011 and finishing runner-up in 2009 & 2010

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]

History

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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

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Singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
↓   ITF $75k Kaohsiung event   ↓
†2006 👁 Chinese Taipei
Chan Yung-jan
👁 Chinese Taipei
Hsieh Su-wei
5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–0
↓   $50k Taoyuan event   ↓
2007 👁 Japan
Akiko Morigami
👁 Belgium
Yanina Wickmayer
6–4, 7–6 (7–5) [17]
↓   $100k+H event   ↓
2008 👁 Slovakia
Jarmila Gajdošová
👁 Italy
Corinna Dentoni
4–6, 6–4, 6–1
2009 👁 Chinese Taipei
Chan Yung-jan
👁 Japan
Ayumi Morita
6–4, 2–6, 6–2
2010 👁 China
Peng Shuai [18]
👁 Japan
Ayumi Morita
6–1, 6–4
2011 👁 Japan
Ayumi Morita
👁 Japan
Kimiko Date-Krumm
6–2, 6–2
↓   WTA 125 event   ↓
2012 👁 France
Kristina Mladenovic
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chang Kai-chen
6–4, 6–3
2013 👁 Belgium
Alison Van Uytvanck
👁 Belgium
Yanina Wickmayer
6–4, 6–2
2014 👁 Russia
Vitalia Diatchenko
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chan Yung-jan
1–6, 6–2, 6–4
2015 👁 Hungary
Tímea Babos
👁 Japan
Misaki Doi
7–5, 6–3
2016 👁 Russia
Evgeniya Rodina
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chang Kai-chen
6–4, 6–3
2017 👁 Switzerland
Belinda Bencic
👁 Netherlands
Arantxa Rus
7–6(7–3), 6–1
2018 👁 Thailand
Luksika Kumkhum
👁 Germany
Sabine Lisicki
6–1, 6–3
2019 👁 Russia
Vitalia Diatchenko (2)
👁 Hungary
Tímea Babos
6–3, 6–2
2020 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

Doubles

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Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓   ITF $50k Taoyuan event   ↓
†2007 👁 Chinese 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][17]
↓   $100k+H event   ↓
2008 👁 Chinese Taipei
Chuang Chia-jung
👁 Chinese Taipei
Hsieh Su-wei
👁 Chinese Taipei
Hsu Wen-hsin
👁 Chinese Taipei
Hwang I-hsuan
6–3, 6–3
2009 👁 Chinese Taipei
Chan Yung-jan (2)
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chuang Chia-jung (2)
👁 Indonesia
Yayuk Basuki
👁 United States
Riza Zalameda
6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
2010 👁 Chinese Taipei
Chang Kai-chen
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chuang Chia-jung (3)
👁 Chinese Taipei
Hsieh Su-wei
👁 India
Sania Mirza
6–4, 6–2
2011 👁 Chinese 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   ↓
2012 👁 Chinese Taipei
Chan Hao-ching (2)
👁 France
Kristina Mladenovic
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chang Kai-chen
👁 Belarus
Olga Govortsova
5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
2013 👁 France
Caroline Garcia
👁 Kazakhstan
Yaroslava Shvedova
👁 Germany
Anna-Lena Friedsam
👁 Belgium
Alison Van Uytvanck
6–3, 6–3
2014 👁 Chinese 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
2015 👁 Japan
Kanae Hisami
👁 Japan
Kotomi Takahata
👁 Russia
Marina Melnikova
👁 Belgium
Elise Mertens
6–1, 6–2
2016 👁 Russia
Natela Dzalamidze
👁 Russia
Veronika Kudermetova
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chang Kai-chen
👁 Chinese Taipei
Chuang Chia-jung
4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
2017 👁 Russia
Veronika Kudermetova (2)
👁 Belarus
Aryna Sabalenka
👁 Australia
Monique Adamczak
👁 United Kingdom
Naomi Broady
2–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–6]
2018 👁 India
Ankita Raina
👁 India
Karman Thandi
👁 Russia
Olga Doroshina
👁 Russia
Natela Dzalamidze
6–3, 5–7, [12–12] ret.
2019 👁 Chinese Taipei
Lee Ya-hsuan
👁 Chinese Taipei
Wu Fang-hsien
👁 Slovenia
Dalila Jakupović
👁 Montenegro
Danka Kovinić
4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
2020 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Taipei OEC Open Tennis at Taipei Arena". 9 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Tournament History". Archived from the original on December 27, 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Steve Tennis – 50k Taoyuan". Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  4. ^ "ITF $50,000 Taoyuan event". Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  5. ^ "OEC GROUP". oecgroup.com. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  6. ^ a b "OEC Taipei WTA Ladies Open". On Tennis. Retrieved 6 December 2015. Chinese Taipei is not a traditional tennis heartland, but it is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with. And now it has its first WTA-sanctioned tournament, the OEC Taipei WTA Ladies Open, which is staged on the indoor hardcourts of the capital's Taipei Arena. The tournament, an ITF stop between 2008 and 2011 before being upgraded, was the first of the new WTA 125K Series events that launched in the fall of 2012. Capturing the inaugural edition was French teen Kristina Mladenovic, who also was victorious in doubles.
  7. ^ 應-許景維 (20 July 2009). "Part2 Hosting International Sporting Events". gov.taipei. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  8. ^ 應-許景維 (6 September 2010). "Part 2 Raising the Level of Competitive Sports to Facilitate International Exchanges". gov.taipei. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  9. ^ 應-黃惠珍 (26 September 2011). "Part 2 Elevating Competitive Standard and Stimulating". gov.taipei. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  10. ^ 吳明璇 (3 August 2012). "Part 2 Upgrading Competitiveness Promotes International Exchange". gov.taipei. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  11. ^ "OEC Taipei WTA Ladies Open" (PDF). www.wtatennis.com. Women's Tennis Association. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  12. ^ 臺北市政府 (11 December 2013). "Part 2 Implementation of Competitive Sports to Provide more Opportunities for Players". gov.taipei. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  13. ^ "OEC Taipei WTA 125K Series" (PDF). www.wtatennis.com. Women's Tennis Association. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2013. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  14. ^ "Date-Krumm falls in first round again". upi.com. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  15. ^ 年鑑1 (14 August 2014). "Part2 Implementation of Competitive Sports to Provide more Opportunities for Players". gov.taipei. Retrieved 1 June 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "台北/高雄海碩盃官方網站". oectennis.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  17. ^ a b "Archived". www.itftennis.com. International Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on September 25, 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-15.[dead link]
  18. ^ 'China’s Peng claims Taipei Ladies title' (retrieved November 8, 2010)

External links

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