WTA Stockholm

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tennis Nordea Nordic Light Open
venue Stockholm Sweden
SwedenSweden 
First run 1975
Last event 2008
category Tier IV
Tournament type Free place tournament
Game surface Hard court
draw 32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money US $ 145,000 
As of September 14, 2009

The WTA tournament in Stockholm (officially Nordea Nordic Light Open ) is a former tennis tournament of the WTA Tour , which in the Swedish capital Stockholm took place. Between 1975 and 1980 it was held a total of three times on carpet in the hall.

The open court competition was held on hard courts from 2004 to 2008 as the successor to the Espoo tournament. It was replaced by the Båstad WTA tournament .

Winners list

singles

year Winner Final opponent Result
1975 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Virginia Wade FranceFrance Françoise Durr 6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 5
1976–1978: not held
1979 United StatesUnited States Billie Jean King NetherlandsNetherlands Betty Stöve 6: 3, 6: 7, 7: 5
1980 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Bettina Bunge 6: 2, 6: 2
1981–2003: not held
2004 AustraliaAustralia Alicia Molik UkraineUkraine Tetiana Perebyjnis 6: 1, 6: 1
2005 SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik RussiaRussia Anastassija Myskina 7: 5, 6: 2
2006 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zheng Jie RussiaRussia Anastassija Myskina 6: 4, 6: 1
2007 PolandPoland Agnieszka Radwańska RussiaRussia Wera Duschewina 6: 1, 6: 1
2008 DenmarkDenmark Caroline Wozniacki RussiaRussia Wera Duschewina 6-0, 6-2

Double

year Winners Final opponents Result
1975 FranceFrance Françoise Durr Betty Stöve
NetherlandsNetherlands
AustraliaAustralia Evonne Goolagong Cawley Virginia Wade
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
6: 3, 6: 4
1976–1978: not held
1979 NetherlandsNetherlands Betty Stöve (2) Wendy Turnbull
AustraliaAustralia
United StatesUnited States Billie Jean King Ilana Kloss
South Africa 1961South Africa
7: 5, 7: 6
1980 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Mima Jaušovec Virginia Ruzici
Romania 1965Romania
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková Betty Stöve
NetherlandsNetherlands
6: 2, 6: 1
1981–2003: not held
2004 AustraliaAustralia Alicia Molik Barbara Schett
AustriaAustria
GermanyGermany Anna-Lena Grönefeld Emmanuelle Gagliardi
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
6: 3, 6: 3
2005 FranceFrance Émilie Loit Katarina Srebotnik
SloveniaSlovenia
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Eva Birnerová Mara Santangelo
ItalyItaly
6: 4, 6: 3
2006 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Eva Birnerová Jarmila Gajdošová
SlovakiaSlovakia
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi Zheng Jie
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
0: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
2007 SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues Virginia Ruano Pascual
SpainSpain
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Chin-wei Tetiana Luzhanska
UkraineUkraine
6: 1, 5: 7, [10: 6]
2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petra Cetkovská Lucie Šafářová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
7: 5, 6: 4

Web links

  • Tournament information (wtatennis.com, accessed April 15, 2013)