WTA Kuala Lumpur

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tennis Alya WTA Malaysian Open
WTA tour
venue Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
MalaysiaMalaysia 
First run 1992
Last event 2017
category WTA International
Tournament type Free place tournament
Game surface Hard court
draw 32E / 24Q / 16D
Prize money US $ 226,750 
Website Official website
As of December 16, 2016
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The WTA Kuala Lumpur (officially: Alya WTA Malaysian Open , formerly BWM Malaysian Open , Malaysia Classic ) was a women's tennis tournament of the WTA Tour , which was held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur . The competition was first held in 1992 and 1993. Then they went to Surabaya and in 1999 returned to Kuala Lumpur for two years.

From 2001 to 2008 the tournament was played in Bali . Since 2010 they played again in Kuala Lumpur. In 2017 the tournament was discontinued again.

Winners list

singles

year Winner Final opponent Result
↓ Category: Tier V ↓
1992 IndonesiaIndonesia Yayuk Basuki CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Andrea Strnadová 6: 3, 6: 0
↓ Category: Tier IV ↓
1993 AustraliaAustralia Nicole Provis United StatesUnited States Ann Grossman 6: 3, 6: 2
↓ Category: Tier III ↓
1999 SwedenSweden Åsa Carlsson United StatesUnited States Erika de Lone 6: 2, 6: 4
2000 SlovakiaSlovakia Henrieta Nagyová CroatiaCroatia Iva Majoli 6: 4, 6: 2
↓ Category: International ↓
2010 RussiaRussia Alissa Kleibanova RussiaRussia Jelena Dementjewa 6: 3, 6: 2
2011 AustraliaAustralia Jelena Dokic Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lucie Šafářová 2: 6, 7: 6 9 , 6: 4
2012 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei CroatiaCroatia Petra Martić 2: 6, 7: 5, 4: 1 exercise
2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková United StatesUnited States Bethanie Mattek-Sands 1: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
2014 CroatiaCroatia Donna Vekic SlovakiaSlovakia Dominika Cibulková 5: 7, 7: 5, 7: 6 4
2015 DenmarkDenmark Caroline Wozniacki RomaniaRomania Alexandra Dulgheru 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 1
2016 UkraineUkraine Elina Switolina CanadaCanada Eugenie Bouchard 6: 7 5 , 6: 4, 7: 5
2017 AustraliaAustralia Ashleigh Barty JapanJapan Nao Hibino 6: 3, 6: 2

Double

year Winners Final opponents Result
↓ Category: Tier V ↓
1992 FranceFrance Isabelle Demongeot Natalija Medvedeva
UkraineUkraine 
JapanJapan Rika Hiraki Petra Langrová
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
↓ Category: Tier IV ↓
1993 United StatesUnited States Patty Fendick Meredith McGrath
United StatesUnited States 
United StatesUnited States Nicole Arendt Kristine Radford
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 4, 7: 6 2
↓ Category: Tier III ↓
1999 CroatiaCroatia Jelena Kostanić Tina Pisnik
SloveniaSlovenia 
JapanJapan Rika Hiraki Yuka Yoshida
JapanJapan 
3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
2000 SlovakiaSlovakia Henrieta Nagyová Sylvia Plischke
AustriaAustria 
South AfricaSouth Africa Liezel Horn Vanessa Webb
CanadaCanada 
6: 4, 7: 6 4
↓ Category: International ↓
2010 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
AustraliaAustralia Anastassija Rodionova Arina Rodionova
RussiaRussia 
6: 7 4 , 6: 2, [10: 7]
2011 RussiaRussia Dinara Safina Galina Voskoboyeva
KazakhstanKazakhstan 
ThailandThailand Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Jessica Moore
AustraliaAustralia 
7: 5, 2: 6, [10: 5]
2012 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen Chuang Chia-jung
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching Rika Fujiwara
JapanJapan 
7: 5, 6: 4
2013 JapanJapan Shuko Aoyama Chang Kai-chen
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
SlovakiaSlovakia Janette Husárová Shuai Zhang
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
6: 7 4 , 7: 6 4 , [14:12]
2014 HungaryHungary Tímea Babos Chan Hao-ching
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan Zheng Saisai
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
6: 3, 6: 4
2015 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Chen Wang Yafan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
UkraineUkraine Julija Bejhelsymer Olha Savchuk
UkraineUkraine 
4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]
2016 ThailandThailand Varatchaya Wongteanchai Yang Zhaoxuan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Chen Wang Yafan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]
2017 AustraliaAustralia Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua
AustraliaAustralia 
United StatesUnited States Nicole Melichar Makoto Ninomiya
JapanJapan 
7: 6 5 , 6: 3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carbon Worldwide pulls plug on WTA Malaysian Open. In: nst.com.my. November 6, 2017, accessed December 13, 2017 .