Korea Open (tennis)

The Korea Open (Korean: 코리아오픈테니스대회) is a professional tennis tennis tournament held in Seoul, South Korea. The women's edition started in 2004 as WTA International tournament and was played at the Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center on outdoor hardcourts. In 2012 and 2013, it was sponsored by Korea Development Bank (formerly sponsored by Hansol).^[1] In 2014, Kia Motors was the sponsor.

Korea Open
2023 Korea Open (tennis)
Tournament information
Founded	2004; 19 years ago (2004)
Location	Seoul South Korea
Venue	Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center
Category	WTA 250
Surface	Hard
Draw	32M/16D
Prize money	$259,303 (2023)
Website	vacancy
Current champions (2023)
Women's singles	Jessica Pegula
Women's doubles	Marie Bouzková Bethanie Mattek-Sands

In 2020, the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, it was originally scheduled as a WTA 250 event in September, but was later postponed and rescheduled to December as a WTA 125 tournament and indoor event.^[2]

In 2022, the women's edition returned as a WTA 250 tournament and the first edition of men's ATP World Tour 250 event also took place.^[3]

Past finals

Men's singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2022	Yoshihito Nishioka	Denis Shapovalov	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)

Women's singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2004	Maria Sharapova	Marta Domachowska	6–1, 6–1
2005	Nicole Vaidišová	Jelena Janković	7–5, 6–3
2006	Eleni Daniilidou	Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 2–6, 7–6^(7–3)
2007	Venus Williams	Maria Kirilenko	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
2008	Maria Kirilenko	Samantha Stosur	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
2009	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–3
2010	Alisa Kleybanova	Klára Zakopalová	6–1, 6–3
2011	María José Martínez Sánchez	Galina Voskoboeva	7–6^(7–0), 7–6^(7–2)
2012	Caroline Wozniacki	Kaia Kanepi	6–1, 6–0
2013	Agnieszka Radwańska	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6–7^(6–8), 6–3, 6–4
2014	Karolína Plíšková	Varvara Lepchenko	6–3, 6–7^(5–7), 6–2
2015	Irina-Camelia Begu	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	6–3, 6–1
2016	Lara Arruabarrena	Monica Niculescu	6–0, 2–6, 6–0
2017	Jeļena Ostapenko	Beatriz Haddad Maia	6–7^(5–7), 6–1, 6–4
2018	Kiki Bertens	Ajla Tomljanović	7–6^(7–2), 4–6, 6–2
2019	Karolína Muchová	Magda Linette	6–1, 6–1
2020	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
↓ WTA 125 tournament ↓
2021	Zhu Lin	Kristina Mladenovic	6–0, 6–4
↓ WTA 250 tournament ↓
2022	Ekaterina Alexandrova	Jeļena Ostapenko	7–6^(7–4), 6–0
2023	Jessica Pegula	Yuan Yue	6–2, 6–3

Men's doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2022	Raven Klaasen   Nathaniel Lammons	Nicolás Barrientos   Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	6–1, 7–5

Women's doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2004	Jeon Mi-ra   Cho Yoon-jeong	Chuang Chia-jung   Hsieh Su-wei	6–3, 1–6, 7–5
2005	Chan Yung-jan   Chuang Chia-jung	Jill Craybas   Natalie Grandin	6–2, 6–4
2006	Virginia Ruano Pascual   Paola Suárez	Chuang Chia-jung   Mariana Díaz Oliva	6–2, 6–3
2007	Chuang Chia-jung (2)   Hsieh Su-wei	Eleni Daniilidou   Jasmin Wöhr	6–2, 6–2
2008	Chuang Chia-jung (3)   Hsieh Su-wei (2)	Vera Dushevina   Maria Kirilenko	6–3, 6–0
2009	Chan Yung-jan (2)   Abigail Spears	Carly Gullickson   Nicole Kriz	6–3, 6–4
2010	Julia Görges   Polona Hercog	Natalie Grandin   Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–3, 6–4
2011	Natalie Grandin   Vladimíra Uhlířová	Vera Dushevina   Galina Voskoboeva	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
2012	Raquel Kops-Jones   Abigail Spears (2)	Akgul Amanmuradova   Vania King	2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
2013	Chan Chin-wei   Xu Yifan	Raquel Kops-Jones   Abigail Spears	7–5, 6–3
2014	Lara Arruabarrena   Irina-Camelia Begu	Mona Barthel   Mandy Minella	6–3, 6–3
2015	Lara Arruabarrena (2)   Andreja Klepač	Kiki Bertens   Johanna Larsson	2–6, 6–3, [10-6]
2016	Johanna Larsson   Kirsten Flipkens	Akiko Omae   Peangtarn Plipuech	6–2, 6–3
2017	Kiki Bertens   Johanna Larsson (2)	Luksika Kumkhum   Peangtarn Plipuech	6–4, 6–1
2018	Choi Ji-hee   Han Na-lae	Hsieh Shu-ying   Hsieh Su-wei	6–3, 6–2
2019	Lara Arruabarrena (3)   Tatjana Maria	Hayley Carter   Luisa Stefani	7–6^(9–7), 3–6, [10–7]
2020	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
↓ WTA 125 tournament ↓
2021	Choi Ji-hee (2)   Han Na-lae (2)	Valentini Grammatikopoulou   Réka Luca Jani	6–4, 6–4
↓ WTA 250 tournament ↓
2022	Kristina Mladenovic   Yanina Wickmayer	Asia Muhammad   Sabrina Santamaria	6–3, 6–2
2023	Marie Bouzková   Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Luksika Kumkhum   Peangtarn Plipuech	6–2, 6–1

See also

• Seoul Open
• List of tennis tournaments

References

1. "Top-seeded Wozniacki cruises into second round at Korea Open tennis". Yonhap. Seoul. September 18, 2012.
2. Yoo, Jee-ho (September 20, 2022). "Top seed Ostapenko reaches round of 16 at WTA event in Seoul". Yonhap. Seoul.
3. Yoo, Jee-ho (September 30, 2022). "ATP executive hails S. Koreans' 'fantastic' support for tennis". Yonhap. Seoul.