The Taipei Open or Taipei WTA Challenger () 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.

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

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. held at the National Taiwan University Gymnasium and the Taipei Arena. 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).

In 2012, the event was upgraded to a WTA 125 event. It had attracted over 60,000 visitors. In 2013, the tournament was renamed to OEC Taipei WTA Challenger. and used that name subsequently.

Past finals

Singles YearChampionRunner-upScore ↓   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) ↓   $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 'China’s Peng claims Taipei Ladies title' (retrieved November 8, 2010) 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 colspan="3" align="center"

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

Doubles YearChampionsRunners-upScore ↓   ITF $50k Taoyuan event   ↓ †2007 Chan Yung-jan Chan Hao-ching Hsieh Shu-ying Hsieh Su-wei 6–1, 2–6, [14–12] ↓   $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 125 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] 2020 colspan="3" align="center"

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

See also List of sporting events in Taiwan

References

External links

WTA Challenger profile at WTATennis.com