WTA Seoul

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tennis KDB Korea Open
WTA tour
venue Seoul South Korea
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
First run 2004
category WTA International
Tournament type Free place tournament
Game surface Hard court
draw 32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money US $ 226,750 
As of December 16, 2016

The WTA Seoul (officially: KDB Korea Open , formerly Hansol Korea Open ) is a tennis tournament of the WTA Tour that is held in the South Korean capital Seoul .

Tournament overview

year Official tournament name category Topping Prize money
2004 Hansol Korea Open Tier IV Hard court $ 140,000
2005 Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships Tier IV Hard court $ 140,000
2006 Hansol Korean Open Tennis Championships Tier IV Hard court $ 145,000
2007 Hansol Korea Open Tier IV Hard court, rebound ace $ 145,000
2008 Hansol Korea Open Tier IV Hard court, rebound ace $ 145,000
2009 Hansol Korea Open International Hard court, rebound ace $ 220,000
2010 Hansol Korea Open International Hard court, rebound ace $ 220,000
2011 Hansol Korea Open International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 220,000
2012 KDB Korea Open International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 500,000
2013 KDB Korea Open International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 500,000
2014 KIA Korea Open International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 500,000
2015 Korea Open International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 500,000
2016 Korea Open Tennis International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 226,750
2017 KEB Hana Bank • Incheon Airport Korea Open International Hard court, DecoTurf $ 226,750

Winners list

singles

year Winner Final opponent Result
↓ Category: Tier IV ↓
2004 RussiaRussia Maria Sharapova PolandPoland Marta Domachowska 6: 1, 6: 1
2005 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nicole Vaidišová Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro Jelena Janković 7: 5, 6: 3
2006 GreeceGreece Eleni Daniilidou JapanJapan Ai Sugiyama 6: 3, 2: 6, 7: 6 3
2007 United StatesUnited States Venus Williams RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko 6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 4
2008 RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko AustraliaAustralia Samantha Stosur 2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
↓ Category: International ↓
2009 JapanJapan Kimiko Date-Krumm SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues 6: 3, 6: 3
2010 RussiaRussia Alissa Kleibanova Czech RepublicCzech Republic Klára Zakopalová 6: 1, 6: 3
2011 SpainSpain María José Martínez Sánchez KazakhstanKazakhstan Galina Voskoboyeva 7: 6 0 , 7: 6 2
2012 DenmarkDenmark Caroline Wozniacki EstoniaEstonia Kaia Kanepi 6: 1, 6: 0
2013 PolandPoland Agnieszka Radwańska RussiaRussia Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova 6: 7 6 , 6: 3, 6: 4
2014 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková United StatesUnited States Varvara Lepchenko 6: 3, 6: 7 5 , 6: 2
2015 RomaniaRomania Irina-Camelia Begu BelarusBelarus Aljaksandra Sasnovich 6: 3, 6: 1
2016 SpainSpain Lara Arruabarrena Vecino RomaniaRomania Monica Niculescu 6: 0, 2: 6, 6: 0
2017 LatviaLatvia Jeļena Ostapenko BrazilBrazil Beatriz Haddad Maia 6: 7 5 , 6: 1, 6: 4
2018 NetherlandsNetherlands Kiki Bertens AustraliaAustralia Ajla Tomljanović 7: 6 2 , 4: 6, 6: 2
2019 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Muchová PolandPoland Magda Linette 6: 1, 6: 1

Double

year Winners Final opponents Result
↓ Category: Tier IV ↓
2004 Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeon Mi-ra Cho Yoon-jeong
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
6: 3, 1: 6, 7: 5
2005 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
United StatesUnited States Jill Craybas Natalie Grandin
South AfricaSouth Africa 
6: 2, 6: 4
2006 SpainSpain Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
ArgentinaArgentina 
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung Mariana Díaz-Oliva
ArgentinaArgentina 
6: 2, 6: 3
2007 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
GreeceGreece Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr
GermanyGermany 
6: 2, 6: 2
2008 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
RussiaRussia Wera Duschewina Marija Kirilenko
RussiaRussia 
6: 3, 6: 0
↓ Category: International ↓
2009 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States 
United StatesUnited States Carly Gullickson Nicole Kriz
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 3, 6: 4
2010 GermanyGermany Julia Görges Polona Hercog
SloveniaSlovenia 
South AfricaSouth Africa Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
6: 3, 6: 4
2011 South AfricaSouth Africa Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
RussiaRussia Vera Dushevina Galina Voskoboyeva
KazakhstanKazakhstan 
7: 6 5 , 6: 4
2012 United StatesUnited States Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States 
UzbekistanUzbekistan Oqgul Omonmurodova Vania King
United StatesUnited States 
2: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
2013 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Chin-wei Xu Yifan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
United StatesUnited States Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States 
7: 5, 6: 3
2014 SpainSpain Lara Arruabarrena Vecino Irina-Camelia Begu
RomaniaRomania 
GermanyGermany Mona Barthel Mandy Minella
LuxembourgLuxembourg 
6: 3, 6: 3
2015 SpainSpain Lara Arruabarrena Vecino Andreja Klepač
SloveniaSlovenia 
NetherlandsNetherlands Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson
SwedenSweden 
2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
2016 BelgiumBelgium Kirsten Flipkens Johanna Larsson
SwedenSweden 
JapanJapan Akiko Omae Peangtarn Plipuech
ThailandThailand 
6: 2, 6: 3
2017 NetherlandsNetherlands Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson
SwedenSweden 
ThailandThailand Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech
ThailandThailand 
6: 4, 6: 1
2018 Korea SouthSouth Korea Choi Ji-hee Han Na-lae
Korea SouthSouth Korea 
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Hsieh Shu-ying Hsieh Su-wei
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
6: 3, 6: 2
2019 SpainSpain Lara Arruabarrena Tatjana Maria
GermanyGermany 
United StatesUnited States Hayley Carter Luisa Stefani
BrazilBrazil 
7: 6 7 , 3: 6, [10: 7]