Chuang Chia-jung has lifted the doubles trophy three times at this event as the home-crowd favouriteJapan'sAyumi Morita has reached the singles final three times here; winning the title in 2011 and finishing runner-up in 2009 & 2010
TheTaipei Open orTaipei WTA Challenger (Chinese:台北海碩網球公開賽) was a tournament for female professionaltennis players played on indoorcarpet courts. The event was classified as aWTA 125 tournament, and held annually in November inTaipei 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]
In 2007, OEC Group Chairman Robert Han organized an ITF tournament inTaoyuan 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-sanctionedITF $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 aWTA 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]
^ab"OEC Taipei WTA Ladies Open".On Tennis. Retrieved6 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.
Vitalia Diatchenko
Lee Ya-hsuan
Akiko Morigami
Yanina Wickmayer
Jarmila Gajdošová
Corinna Dentoni
Peng Shuai[18]
Kristina Mladenovic
Tímea Babos
Belinda Bencic
Arantxa Rus
Luksika Kumkhum
Sabine Lisicki
