WTA Charleston

Volvo Car Open
WTA tour
venue	Charleston (South Carolina) United States
First run	1986
category	WTA Premier
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	Sand (green)
draw	56E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	US $ 710,900
Center Court	10,200 spectators
Website	Official website
As of April 4, 2017

Wozniacki versus Falconi, 2011

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The WTA Charleston (officially: Volvo Car Open ) are women's tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour , which have been held in Charleston , South Carolina , with an interruption since 1986 , and have been a premier tournament since 2009 .

For the first time, a WTA tournament was held in Charleston in 1986, which previously took place on Seabrook Island for a year . Since 2001 there has been another WTA tournament, which was held until 2000, also under the name Family Circle Cup and with the same tournament license, in Hilton Head Island , South Carolina.

Former official names:

• Wild Dunes 1986-1987
• Family Circle Cup 2001–2015

Licenses of the tournaments:

• 404: 1986-1987
• 804: since 2001

Venue

The tournament will be held in the Family Circle Tennis Center , which was completed in 2001. The facility has 14 clay and six hard courts, the main court has a capacity of 10,200.

Winners list

singles

year	Winner	Final opponent	Result
1986	Elise Burgin	Tine Scheuer-Larsen	6: 1, 6: 4
1987	Manuela Maleewa	Raffaella Reggi	5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 3
from 1988 to 2000 the tournament did not take place
↓ Category: Tier I ↓
2001	Jennifer Capriati	Martina Hingis	6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 4
2002	Iva Majoli	Patty Schnyder	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
2003	Justine Henin-Hardenne (1)	Serena Williams	6: 3, 6: 4
2004	Venus Williams	Conchita Martínez	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 1
2005	Justine Henin-Hardenne (2)	Jelena Dementjewa	7: 5, 6: 4
2006	Nadia Petrova	Patty Schnyder	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 1
2007	Jelena Janković	Dinara Safina	6: 2, 6: 2
2008	Serena Williams (1)	Vera Swonaryova	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2009	Sabine Lisicki	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 2, 6: 4
2010	Samantha Stosur	Vera Swonaryova	6: 0, 6: 3
2011	Caroline Wozniacki	Jelena Wesnina	6: 2, 6: 3
2012	Serena Williams (2)	Lucie Šafářová	6-0, 6-1
2013	Serena Williams (3)	Jelena Janković	3: 6, 6: 0, 6: 2
2014	Andrea Petković	Jana Čepelová	7: 5, 6: 2
2015	Angelique Kerber	Madison Keys	6: 2, 4: 6, 7: 5
2016	Sloane Stephens	Jelena Wesnina	7: 6 4 , 6: 2
2017	Darja Kassatkina	Jeļena Ostapenko	6: 3, 6: 1
2018	Kiki Bertens	Julia Goerges	6: 2, 6: 1
2019	Madison Keys	Caroline Wozniacki	7: 6 5 , 6: 3

Double

year	Winners	Final opponents	Result
1986	Sandra Cecchini Sabrina Goleš	Laura Gildemeister Marcela Skuherská	4: 6, 6: 0, 6: 3
1987	Laura Gildemeister Tine Scheuer-Larsen	Mercedes Paz Candy Reynolds	6: 4, 6: 4
from 1988 to 2000 the tournament did not take place
↓ Category: Tier I ↓
2001	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	5: 7, 7: 6 5 , 6: 3
2002	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	Alexandra Fusai Caroline Vis	6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 6 4
2003	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	Janette Husárová Conchita Martínez	6: 0, 6: 3
2004	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	Martina Navrátilová Lisa Raymond	6: 4, 6: 1
2005	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	Iveta Benešová Květa Peschke	6: 1, 6: 4
2006	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	Virginia Ruano Pascual Meghann Shaughnessy	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 1
2007	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	Peng Shuai Sun Tiantian	7: 5, 6: 0
2008	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	Edina Gallovits Wolha Hawarzowa	6: 2, 6: 2
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2009	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadja Petrowa	Līga Dekmeijere Patty Schnyder	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, [11: 9]
2010	Liezel Huber Nadja Petrowa	Vania King Michaëlla Krajicek	6: 3, 6: 4
2011	Sania Mirza Jelena Wesnina	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy	6: 4, 6: 4
2012	Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova Lucie Šafářová	Anabel Medina Garrigues Jaroslawa Schwedowa	5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 6]
2013	Kristina Mladenovic Lucie Šafářová	Andrea Hlaváčková Liezel Huber	6: 3, 7: 6 6
2014	Anabel Medina Garrigues Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan	7: 6 4 , 6: 2
2015	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	Casey Dellacqua Darija Jurak	6-0, 6-4
2016	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	6: 2, 7: 5
2017	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	Lucie Hradecká Kateřina Siniaková	6: 1, 4: 6, [10: 7]
2018	Alla Kudrjawzewa Katarina Srebotnik	Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez	6: 3, 6: 3
2019	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Alicja Rosolska	Irina Chromatschowa Weronika Kudermetowa	7: 6 7 , 6: 2

Web links

Commons : Family_Circle_Cup  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website