WTA Challenger Series

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The WTA Challenger Series (also called the WTA 125s ) is a series of tournaments in women's tennis . They are organized by the WTA and form the substructure of the WTA Tour . The Challenger tournaments are each endowed with prize money of 125,000 US dollars and are played within a week. Above all, they are used by players outside the top 100 of the world rankings to collect ranking points in order to be able to participate in the higher endowed WTA tournaments.

history

The WTA Challenger Series was held for the first time in 2012; the first two tournaments took place in the Taiwanese capital Taipei and in Pune , India . On December 14, 2012, the WTA announced that another Challenger tournament will take place in the Colombian city ​​of Cali . On July 17, 2013, the Chinese Tennis Association announced that the Caoxijiu Suzhou Ladies Open 2013 in Suzhou would be the first WTA Challenger tournament in China . In 2014 , six Challenger tournaments should be held, three of them in China. Because of the uncertain political situation, however, the Israel Open in Ra'anana was removed from the tournament calendar. In 2015 , six tournaments in this category were held. In 2016 , the tournament in Hua Hin was canceled due to a national period of mourning following the death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej . In 2018 , Oracle added four new tournaments to the tournament calendar in Newport Beach , Indian Wells , Chicago and Houston under the name Oracle Challenger Series.

Number of tournaments and prize money

year Number of tournaments Tournament locations Total prize money
2012 2 Taipei , Pune $ 250,000
2013 5 Cali , Suzhou , Ningbo , Nanjing , Taipei $ 625,000
2014 5 Nanchang , Suzhou, Ningbo, Taipei, Limoges $ 625,000
2015 6th Nanchang, Dalian , Limoges, Hua Hin , Taipei, Carlsbad $ 750,000
2016 6th San Antonio , Bol , Dalian, Limoges, Taipei, Honolulu $ 750,000
2017 8th Zhengzhou , Bol, Dalian, Limoges, Hua Hin, Taipei, Honolulu, Mumbai $ 1,000,000
2018 10 Newport Beach , Indian Wells , Zhengzhou, Anning , Bol, Chicago , Limoges, Taipei, Houston , Mumbai $ 1,340,000
2019 11 Newport Beach, Indian Wells, Guadalajara , Anning, Bol, Båstad , Karlsruhe , New Haven , Houston, Taipei, Limoges $ 1,525,000
2020 (3) Newport Beach, Indian Wells, Guadalajara

Number of tournaments by tournament location

Number of tournaments Tournament locations Events
7th Taipei 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
6th Limoges 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
4th Bol 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
3 Dalian 2015, 2016, 2017
2 Hua Hin 2015, 2016 , 2017
2 Honolulu 2016, 2017
2 Ningbo 2013, 2014
2 Suzhou 2013, 2014
2 Nanchang 2014, 2015
2 Zhengzhou 2017, 2018
2 Mumbai 2017, 2018
2 Newport Beach 2018, 2019
2 Indian Wells 2018, 2019
2 Houston 2018, 2019
2 Anning 2018, 2019
1 Pune 2012
1 Cali 2013
1 Nanjing 2013
1 Carlsbad 2015
1 San Antonio 2016
1 Chicago 2018
1 Guadalajara 2019
1 Båstad 2019
1 Karlsruhe 2019
1 New Haven 2019

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WTA 125s
  2. ↑ WTA Challenger Series To Debut In Taipei
  3. ↑ Cali Gets WTA $ 125 Event For 2013 (accessed December 15, 2012)
  4. ^ The Latest From Beijing & Suzhou (accessed August 8, 2013)
  5. ↑ Canceled Raanana November 10-15, 2014 (wtatennis.com, accessed September 6, 2014).
  6. ↑ "Thailand King Dies, WTA Hua Hin Gets Canceled" , tennisworldusa.org of October 18, 2016, accessed on November 7, 2016
  7. ↑ Two new WTA 125K Series events to form Oracle Challenger Series in 2018 (wtatennis.com, November 2, 2017, accessed December 25, 2017)