Korea Open (tennis)

Korea Open
Tournament information
Founded 2004
Location Seoul
South Korea
Venue Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center
Category International
Surface Hard / Outdoors
Draw 32M/32Q/16D
Prize money $500,000
Website kiakoreaopen.com

The Korea Open is a professional women's tennis tournament held in Seoul, South Korea. Held since 2004, this WTA Tour event is an International tournament and is played at the Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center on, outdoor hardcourts. In 2012 and 2013 it was sponsored by KDB (formerly sponsored by Hansol). In 2014, Kia Motors is the sponsor.

It is currently part of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions league.

Past finals

Singles

Year Champion Runner-up  Score
2004  Russia Maria Sharapova Poland Marta Domachowska 6–1, 6–1
2005 Czech Republic Nicole Vaidišová Serbia and Montenegro Jelena Janković 7–5, 6–3 
2006  Greece Eleni Daniilidou Japan Ai Sugiyama 6–3, 2–6, 7–6(7–3)
2007 United States Venus Williams   Russia Maria Kirilenko   6–3, 1–6, 6–4
2008 Russia Maria Kirilenko Australia Samantha Stosur 2–6, 6–1, 6–4
2009 Japan Kimiko Date-Krumm Spain Anabel Medina Garrigues 6–3, 6–3
2010 Russia Alisa Kleybanova Czech Republic Klára Zakopalová 6–1, 6–3
2011 Spain María José Martínez Sánchez Kazakhstan Galina Voskoboeva 7–6(7–0), 7–6(7–2)
2012 Denmark Caroline Wozniacki Estonia Kaia Kanepi 6–1, 6–0
2013 Poland Agnieszka Radwańska Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–4
2014 Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková United States Varvara Lepchenko 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
2015 Romania Irina-Camelia Begu Belarus Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6–3, 6–1

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2004 South Korea Jeon Mi-ra
South Korea Cho Yoon-jeong 		Taiwan Chuang Chia-jung
Taiwan Hsieh Su-wei 		6–3, 1–6, 7–5
2005 Taiwan Chan Yung-jan
Taiwan Chuang Chia-jung 		United States Jill Craybas
South Africa Natalie Grandin 		6–2, 6–4
2006 Spain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez 		Taiwan Chuang Chia-jung
Argentina Mariana Díaz-Oliva 		6–2, 6–3
2007 Taiwan Chuang Chia-jung (2)
Taiwan Hsieh Su-wei 		Greece Eleni Daniilidou
Germany Jasmin Wöhr 		6–2, 6–2
2008 Taiwan Chuang Chia-jung (3)
Taiwan Hsieh Su-wei (2) 		Russia Vera Dushevina
Russia Maria Kirilenko 		6–3, 6–0
2009 Taiwan Chan Yung-jan (2)
United States Abigail Spears 		United States Carly Gullickson
Australia Nicole Kriz 		6–3, 6–4
2010 Germany Julia Görges
Slovenia Polona Hercog 		South Africa Natalie Grandin
Czech Republic Vladimíra Uhlířová 		6–3, 6–4
2011 South Africa Natalie Grandin
Czech Republic Vladimíra Uhlířová 		Russia Vera Dushevina
Kazakhstan Galina Voskoboeva 		7–6(7–5), 6–4
2012 United States Raquel Kops-Jones
United States Abigail Spears (2) 		Uzbekistan Akgul Amanmuradova
United States Vania King 		2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
2013 Chinese Taipei Chan Chin-wei
China Xu Yifan 		United States Raquel Kops-Jones
United States Abigail Spears 		7–5, 6–3
2014 Spain Lara Arruabarrena
Romania Irina-Camelia Begu 		Germany Mona Barthel
Luxembourg Mandy Minella 		6–3, 6–3
2015 Spain Lara Arruabarrena (2)
Slovenia Andreja Klepač 		Netherlands Kiki Bertens
Sweden Johanna Larsson 		2–6, 6–3, [10–6]

See also

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