Taipei Open

For the men's event, see Taipei OEC Open.

This article is about the tennis tournament. For other uses, see Taiwan 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.^[1]

Taipei WTA Challenger
Tournament information
Event name	Taipei WTA Challenger
Location	Taipei City Taiwan
Venue	Taipei Arena
Category	WTA 125K series
Surface	Carpet - indoors
Draw	32S / 16Q / 16D
Prize money	US$125,000 (2019)
Website	www.oectennis.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.^[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

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓   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) [17]
↓   $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 [18]	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	cancelled 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   ↓
†2007	Chan Yung-jan Chan Hao-ching	Hsieh Shu-ying Hsieh Su-wei	6–1, 2–6, [14–12][17]
↓   $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	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

See also

• List of sporting events in Taiwan