Korea Open (tennis)

Korea Open
Tournament information
Founded	2004; 18 years ago (2004)
Location	Seoul South Korea
Venue	Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center
Category	WTA 125
Surface	Hard / Indoors
Draw	28M/8D
Prize money	$115,000 (2021)
Website	vacancy
Current champions (2021)
Women's singles	Zhu Lin
Women's doubles	Choi Ji-hee Han Na-lae

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 was the sponsor.

In 2020, the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, it was originally scheduled as a WTA 250 event in September, but was later postponed and rescheduled to December as a WTA 125 tournament.

Past finals[]

Singles[]

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2004	Maria Sharapova	Marta Domachowska	6–1, 6–1
2005	Nicole Vaidišová	Jelena Janković	7–5, 6–3
2006	Eleni Daniilidou	Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 2–6, 7–6(7–3)
2007	Venus Williams	Maria Kirilenko	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
2008	Maria Kirilenko	Samantha Stosur	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
2009	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–3
2010	Alisa Kleybanova	Klára Zakopalová	6–1, 6–3
2011	María José Martínez Sánchez	Galina Voskoboeva	7–6(7–0), 7–6(7–2)
2012	Caroline Wozniacki	Kaia Kanepi	6–1, 6–0
2013	Agnieszka Radwańska	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–4
2014	Karolína Plíšková	Varvara Lepchenko	6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2
2015	Irina-Camelia Begu	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	6–3, 6–1
2016	Lara Arruabarrena	Monica Niculescu	6–0, 2–6, 6–0
2017	Jeļena Ostapenko	Beatriz Haddad Maia	6–7(5–7), 6–1, 6–4
2018	Kiki Bertens	Ajla Tomljanović	7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–2
2019	Karolína Muchová	Magda Linette	6–1, 6–1
2020	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
↓ WTA 125 tournament ↓
2021	Zhu Lin	Kristina Mladenovic	6–0, 6–4

Doubles[]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2004	Jeon Mi-ra Cho Yoon-jeong	Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei	6–3, 1–6, 7–5
2005	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	Jill Craybas Natalie Grandin	6–2, 6–4
2006	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	Chuang Chia-jung Mariana Díaz Oliva	6–2, 6–3
2007	Chuang Chia-jung (2) Hsieh Su-wei	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	6–2, 6–2
2008	Chuang Chia-jung (3) Hsieh Su-wei (2)	Vera Dushevina Maria Kirilenko	6–3, 6–0
2009	Chan Yung-jan (2) Abigail Spears	Carly Gullickson Nicole Kriz	6–3, 6–4
2010	Julia Görges Polona Hercog	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–3, 6–4
2011	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	Vera Dushevina Galina Voskoboeva	7–6(7–5), 6–4
2012	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears (2)	Akgul Amanmuradova Vania King	2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
2013	Chan Chin-wei Xu Yifan	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	7–5, 6–3
2014	Lara Arruabarrena Irina-Camelia Begu	Mona Barthel Mandy Minella	6–3, 6–3
2015	Lara Arruabarrena (2) Andreja Klepač	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	2–6, 6–3, [10-6]
2016	Johanna Larsson Kirsten Flipkens	Akiko Omae Peangtarn Plipuech	6–2, 6–3
2017	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson (2)	Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech	6–4, 6–1
2018	Choi Ji-hee Han Na-lae	Hsieh Shu-ying Hsieh Su-wei	6–3, 6–2
2019	Lara Arruabarrena (3) Tatjana Maria	Hayley Carter Luisa Stefani	7–6(9–7), 3–6, [10–7]
2020	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
↓ WTA 125 tournament ↓
2021	Choi Ji-hee (2) Han Na-lae (2)	Valentini Grammatikopoulou Réka Luca Jani	6–4, 6–4

See also[]

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