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Connecticut Open (tennis)

FieldValue
nameConnecticut Open
typedefunct
tourWTA Tour
founded1948
ended2019
editions50
categoryATP World Series
(1990–1997)
ATP International Series
(1998–2008)
ATP World Tour 250 series
(2009–2010)
WTA Tier IV
(1988–1989)
WTA Tier III
(1990–1994)
WTA Tier II
(1997–2008)
WTA Premier
(2009–2018)
locationNew Haven, Connecticut
United States
surfaceHard / outdoor

(1990–1997) ATP International Series (1998–2008) ATP World Tour 250 series (2009–2010) WTA Tier IV (1988–1989) WTA Tier III (1990–1994) WTA Tier II (1997–2008) WTA Premier (2009–2018) United States

The Connecticut Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts under various names and in various venues from 1948 until 2019.

It was most recently a Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour, held annually at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, just before the fourth and last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open. From 2005 through 2010, the tournament was also part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour.

In 2019, the tournament sanction was sold to APG, a sports and entertainment company, which transferred it to Zhengzhou, China.

History

The tournament was created in 1948 as the U.S. Women's Hardcourt Championships and first played in Sacramento, California, in the United States. Over the 20 years of its first run, the event was held in various locations in the western United States: San Francisco; Berkeley, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; La Jolla, California; and Denver, Colorado. Among the winners of the event were Doris Hart, Darlene Hard, Nancy Richey, Rosemary Casals, Billie Jean King, and Jane Bartkowicz. The event was discontinued in 1969 after the beginning of the Open Era.

In 1988, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) reinstated the tournament. The first edition of the new U.S. Women's Hardcourt Championships was held that year in San Antonio, Texas, first as part of Tier IV of the WTA Tour, then as an upgraded Tier III event in 1990. The championships were sponsored by Post Cereals in 1990 and by Acura from 1992 to 1994. Over the first years of its second run, the tournament was won by several past or future World No. 1s, including Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, and Martina Navratilova. The event was held in Stratton Mountain, Vermont, in 1993 and 1994, but conflicts with the 1996 Summer Olympics prevented the tournament from being held the following two years. In 1997, the event returned again, now within Tier II and first in Stone Mountain, Georgia, then settling in 1998 in New Haven, Connecticut, under the new sponsorship of Pilot Pen. In the first years of its run in New Haven, the renamed Pilot Pen International saw its competition dominated by Lindsay Davenport (four-time runner-up in New Haven, one previous time in Stone Mountain, and 2005 champion) and Venus Williams (four-time champion from 1999 to 2002).

New Haven was already host to a men's tournament, the Pilot Pen International*.* It was created in 1973 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, as the Volvo International, and moved to Connecticut in 1990, where it took Pilot Pen sponsorship in 1997. When the men's event was cancelled in 1999, the women's Pilot Pen tournament remained the only one of the region.

In 2005, the USTA purchased the men's tournament of Long Island, New York, and merged it with the women's Pilot Pen International to create 'Pilot Pen Tennis''''', the first large joint ATP–WTA tournament leading to the US Open. The tournament became the last event of the US Open Series and continued to attract top players, including champions Caroline Wozniacki, Svetlana Kuznetsova, James Blake, Justine Henin, and Nikolay Davydenko.

In 2011, after the men's competition moved to Winston-Salem, the newly women's-only event was renamed the **New Haven Open at Yale'''. In 2014, it was renamed the **Connecticut Open'''.

In 2019, the Connecticut Open ended due to a lack of funding. The tournament's sanction was sold and assigned to Zhengzhou, China, after the 2019 US Open. In 2021, the Tennis in the Land tournament in Cleveland took over its former spot on the WTA schedule.

Past finals

Women's singles

LocationYearChampionRunner-upScore
San Francisco1948*USA Gussie MoranUSA Virginia Wolfenden Kovacs2–6, 6–1, 6–2
1949*USA Doris HartUSA Dorothy Head Knode6–3, 6–4
Berkeley, California1950*USA Patricia Canning ToddROM Magda Rurac6–2, 6–1
Salt Lake City1951USA Patricia Canning Todd (2)USA Anita Kanter6–1, 6–4
Seattle1952USA Mary Arnold PrentissUSA Anita Kanter6–1, 8–6
Salt Like City1953USA Anita KanterUSA Joan Merciadis6–0, 6–4
1954USA Beverly Baker FleitzUSA Barbara Green6–1, 6–3
La Jolla, California1955USA Mimi ArnoldUSA Patricia Canning Todd6–0, 6–0
1956USA Nancy Chaffee KinerUSA Patricia Canning Todd6–4, 5–7, 7–5
1957USA Beverly Baker Fleitz (2)USA Mimi Arnold6–1, 6–1
1958USA Beverly Baker Fleitz (3)USA Karen Hantze6–1, 8–6
Denver, Colorado1959RSA Sandra ReynoldsUSA Beverly Baker Fleitz6–3, 6–2
La Jolla, California1960USA Katherine D. ChabotUSA Karen Hantze4–6, 7–5, 7–5
1961USA Nancy RicheyUSA Dorothy Head Knode6–1, 6–1
Seattle1962USA Carol HanksUSA Marilyn Montgomery7–5, 6–3
La Jolla, California1963USA Darlene HardUSA Tory Fretz6–1, 8–6
Sacramento, California1964USA Kathleen HarterUSA Kathy Blake6–1, 6–0
1965USA Rosemary CasalsUSA Kathleen Harter6–4, 4–6, 6–2
La Jolla, California1966USA Billie Jean KingUSA Patti Hogan7–5, 6–0
Sacramento, California1967USA Jane "Peaches" BartkowiczUSA Valerie Ziegenfuss6–4, 6–4
La Jolla, California1968RSA Maryna GodwinUSA Janet Newberry6–3, 8–6
Sacramento, California1969USA Eliza PandeUSA Kristien Kemmer7–5, 6–4
1970–
1987Not held
San Antonio, Texas1988GER Steffi GrafBUL Katerina Maleeva6–4, 6–1
1989GER Steffi Graf (2)USA Ann Henricksson6–1, 6–4
1990YUG Monica SelesSUI Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière6–4, 6–3
1991GER Steffi Graf (3)YUG Monica Seles6–4, 6–3
1992USA Martina NavratilovaFRA Nathalie Tauziat6–2, 6–1
Stratton Mountain, Vermont1993ESP Conchita MartínezUSA Zina Garrison6–3, 6–2
1994ESP Conchita Martínez (2)ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario4–6, 6–3, 6–4
1995Not held
1996Not held
Stone Mountain, Georgia1997USA Lindsay DavenportFRA Sandrine Testud6–4, 6–1
New Haven, Connecticut1998GER Steffi Graf (4)CZE Jana Novotná6–4, 6–1
1999USA Venus WilliamsUSA Lindsay Davenport6–2, 7–5
2000USA Venus Williams (2)USA Monica Seles6–2, 6–4
2001USA Venus Williams (3)USA Lindsay Davenport7–6(8–6), 6–4
2002USA Venus Williams (4)USA Lindsay Davenport7–5, 6–0
2003USA Jennifer CapriatiUSA Lindsay Davenport6–2, 4–0 retired
2004RUS Elena BovinaFRA Nathalie Dechy6–2, 2–6, 7–5
2005USA Lindsay Davenport (2)FRA Amélie Mauresmo6–4, 6–4
2006BEL Justine HeninUSA Lindsay Davenport6–0, 1–0 retired
2007RUS Svetlana KuznetsovaHUN Ágnes Szávay4–6, 3–0 retired
2008DEN Caroline WozniackiRUS Anna Chakvetadze3–6, 6–4, 6–1
2009DEN Caroline Wozniacki (2)RUS Elena Vesnina6–2, 6–4
2010DEN Caroline Wozniacki (3)RUS Nadia Petrova6–3, 3–6, 6–3
2011DEN Caroline Wozniacki (4)CZE Petra Cetkovská6–4, 6–1
2012CZE Petra KvitováRUS Maria Kirilenko7–6(11–9), 7–5
2013ROM Simona HalepCZE Petra Kvitová6–2, 6–2
2014CZE Petra Kvitová (2)SVK Magdaléna Rybáriková6–4, 6–2
2015CZE Petra Kvitová (3)CZE Lucie Šafářová6–7(6–8), 6–2, 6–2
2016POL Agnieszka RadwańskaUKR Elina Svitolina6–1, 7–6(7–3)
2017AUS Daria GavrilovaSVK Dominika Cibulková4–6, 6–3, 6–4
2018BLR Aryna SabalenkaESP Carla Suárez Navarro6–1, 6–4
  • From 1948 through 1950, the U.S. Women's Hardcourt Championships were a combined event with the Pacific Coast Championships.

Women's doubles

LocationYearChampionsRunners-upScoreNew HavenStone Mt.Stratton
MountainSan Antonio
2018CZE Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková
CZE Barbora StrýcováTPE Hsieh Su-wei
GER Laura Siegemund6–4, 6–7(7–9), [10–4]
2017CAN Gabriela Dabrowski
CHN Xu YifanAUS Ashleigh Barty
AUS Casey Dellacqua3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
2016IND Sania Mirza (3)
ROU Monica NiculescuUKR Kateryna Bondarenko
TPE Chuang Chia-jung7–5, 6–4
2015GER Julia Görges
CZE Lucie HradeckáTPE Chuang Chia-jung
CHN Liang Chen6–3, 6–1
2014SLO Andreja Klepač
ESP Sílvia Soler EspinosaNZL Marina Erakovic
ESP Arantxa Parra Santonja7–5, 4–6, [10–7]
2013IND Sania Mirza (2)
CHN Zheng Jie (2)ESP Anabel Medina Garrigues
SLO Katarina Srebotnik6–3, 6–4
2012USA Liezel Huber
USA Lisa Raymond (4)CZE Andrea Hlaváčková
CZE Lucie Hradecká4–6, 6–0, [10–4]
2011TPE Chuang Chia-jung
BLR Olga GovortsovaITA Sara ErraniITA Roberta Vinci7–5, 6–2
2010CZE Květa Peschke
SVN Katarina SrebotnikUSA Bethanie Mattek-SandsUSA Meghann Shaughnessy7–5, 6–0
2009ESP Nuria Llagostera Vives
ESP María José Martínez SánchezCZE Iveta BenešováCZE Lucie Hradecká6–2, 7–5
2008CZE Květa Peschke
USA Lisa Raymond (3)ROU Sorana Cîrstea
ROU Monica Niculescu4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
2007IND Sania Mirza
ITA Mara SantangeloZIM Cara Black
USA Liezel Huber6–1, 6–2
2006CHN Yan Zi
CHN Zheng JieUSA Lisa Raymond
AUS Samantha Stosur6–4, 6–2
2005USA Lisa Raymond (2)
AUS Samantha StosurARG Gisela Dulko
RUS Maria Kirilenko6–2, 6–7(1–7), 6–1
2004RUS Nadia Petrova
USA Meghann ShaughnessyUSA Martina Navratilova
USA Lisa Raymond6–1, 1–6, 7–6(7–4)
2003ESP Virginia Ruano Pascual
ARG Paola SuárezAUS Alicia Molik
ESP Magüi Serna7–6(8–6), 6–3
2002SVK Daniela Hantuchová
ESP Arantxa Sánchez VicarioITA Tathiana Garbin
SVK Janette Husárová7–6, 1–6, 7–5
2001ZIM Cara Black
RUS Elena LikhovtsevaFR Yugoslavia Jelena Dokić
RUS Nadia Petrova6–0, 3–6, 6–2
2000FRA Julie Halard-Decugis
JPN Ai SugiyamaESP Virginia Ruano Pascual
ARG Paola Suárez6–4, 5–7, 6–2
1999USA Lisa Raymond
AUS Rennae StubbsRUS Elena Likhovtseva
CZE Jana Novotná7–6(7–1), 6–2
1998FRA Alexandra Fusai
FRA Nathalie TauziatRSA Mariaan de Swardt
CZE Jana Novotná6–1, 6–0
1997USA Nicole Arendt
NED Manon BollegrafFRA Alexandra Fusai
FRA Nathalie Tauziat6–7(5–7), 6–3, 6–2
1996Not held
1995Not held
1994AUS Elizabeth Sayers-Smylie (2)
USA Pam Shriver (3)ESP Conchita Martínez
ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario7–6(7–4), 2–6, 7–5
1993AUS Elizabeth Sayers-Smylie
CZE Helena Suková (2)SUI Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière
ARG Mercedes Paz6–1, 6–2
1992USA Martina Navratilova
USA Pam Shriver (2)USA Patty Fendick
TCH Andrea Strnadová3–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–4)
1991USA Patty Fendick
SFR Yugoslavia Monica SelesCAN Jill Hetherington
USA Kathy Rinaldi7–6(7–2), 6–2
1990USA Kathy Jordan
AUS Elizabeth Sayers-SmylieUSA Gigi Fernández
USA Robin White7–5, 7–5
1989USA Katrina Adams
USA Pam ShriverUSA Patty Fendick
CAN Jill Hetherington3–6, 6–1, 6–4
1988USA Lori McNeil
TCH Helena SukováSouth Africa Rosalyn Fairbank
USA Gretchen Rush-Magers6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–2

Men's singles

LocationYearChampionsRunners-upScore
Long Island
(exhibition)1981USA Brian TeacherFRA Yannick Noah4–6, 6–3, 6–4
1982USA Gene MayerUSA Johan Kriek6–2, 6–3
1983USA Gene MayerSUI Heinz Günthardt6–7(9–11), 6–4, 6–0
1984CZE Ivan LendlECU Andrés Gómez6–2, 6–4
1985CZE Ivan LendlUSA Jimmy Connors6–1, 6–3
1986CZE Ivan LendlUSA John McEnroe6–2, 6–4
1987SWE Jonas SvenssonUSA David Pate7–6, 3–6, 6–3
1988USA Andre AgassiFRA Yannick Noah6–3, 0–6, 6–4
1989CZE Ivan LendlSWE Mikael Pernfors4–6, 6–2, 6–4
Long Island1990SWE Stefan EdbergYUG Goran Ivanišević7–6, 6–3
1991CZE Ivan LendlSWE Stefan Edberg6–3, 6–2
1992CZE Petr KordaUSA Ivan Lendl6–2, 6–2
1993SUI Marc RossetUSA Michael Chang6–4, 3–6, 6–1
1994RUS Yevgeny KafelnikovFRA Cédric Pioline5–7, 6–1, 6–2
1995RUS Yevgeny KafelnikovNED Jan Siemerink7–6(7–0), 6–2
1996UKR Andrei MedvedevCZE Martin Damm7–5, 6–3
1997ESP Carlos MoyáAUS Patrick Rafter6–4, 7–6(7–1)
1998AUS Patrick RafterESP Félix Mantilla7–6(7–3), 6–2
1999SWE Magnus NormanESP Àlex Corretja7–6(7–4), 4–6, 6–3
2000SWE Magnus NormanSWE Thomas Enqvist6–3, 5–7, 7–5
2001GER Tommy HaasUSA Pete Sampras6–3, 3–6, 6–2
2002THA Paradorn SrichaphanARG Juan Ignacio Chela5–7, 6–2, 6–2
2003THA Paradorn SrichaphanUSA James Blake6–2, 6–4
2004AUS Lleyton HewittPER Luis Horna6–3, 6–1
New Haven2005USA James BlakeESP Feliciano López3–6, 7–5, 6–1
2006RUS Nikolay DavydenkoARG Agustín Calleri6–4, 6–3
2007USA James BlakeUSA Mardy Fish7–5, 6–4
2008CRO Marin ČilićUSA Mardy Fish6–4, 4–6, 6–2
2009ESP Fernando VerdascoUSA Sam Querrey6–4, 7–6(8–6)
2010UKR Sergiy StakhovskyUZB Denis Istomin3–6, 6–3, 6–4

Men's doubles

LocationYearChampionsRunners-upScore
Long Island1990FRA Guy Forget
SUI Jakob HlasekGER Udo Riglewski
GER Michael Stich2–6, 6–3, 6–4
1991GER Eric Jelen
GER Carl-Uwe SteebUSA Doug Flach
ITA Diego Nargiso0–6, 6–4, 7–6
1992USA Francisco Montana
USA Greg Van EmburghITA Gianluca Pozzi
FIN Olli Rahnasto6–4, 6–2
1993GER Marc-Kevin Goellner
GER David PrinosilFRA Arnaud Boetsch
FRA Olivier Delaître6–7, 7–5, 6–2
1994FRA Olivier Delaître
FRA Guy ForgetAUS Andrew Florent
GBR Mark Petchey6–4, 7–6
1995CZE Cyril Suk
CZE Daniel VacekUSA Rick Leach
USA Scott Melville5–7, 7–6, 7–6
1996USA Luke Jensen
USA Murphy JensenGER Hendrik Dreekmann
RUS Alexander Volkov6–3, 7–6
1997RSA Marcos Ondruska
GER David PrinosilUSA Mark Keil
USA T. J. Middleton6–4, 6–4
1998ESP Julian Alonso
ESP Javier SánchezUSA Brandon Coupe
USA Dave Randall6–4, 6–4
1999FRA Olivier Delaître
FRA Fabrice SantoroUSA Jan-Michael Gambill
USA Scott Humphries7–5, 6–4
2000USA Jonathan Stark
ZIM Kevin UllyettUSA Jan-Michael Gambill
USA Scott Humphries6–4, 6–4
2001USA Jonathan Stark
ZIM Kevin UllyettCZE Leoš Friedl
CZE Radek Štěpánek6–1, 6–4
2002IND Mahesh Bhupathi
USA Mike BryanCZE Petr Pála
CZE Pavel Vízner6–3, 6–4
2003RSA Robbie Koenig
ARG Martín RodríguezCZE Martin Damm
CZE Cyril Suk6–3, 7–6
2004FRA Antony Dupuis
FRA Michaël LlodraSUI Yves Allegro
GER Michael Kohlmann6–2, 6–4
New Haven2005ARG Gastón Etlis
ARG Martín RodríguezUSA Rajeev Ram
USA Bobby Reynolds6–4, 6–3
2006ISR Jonathan Erlich
ISR Andy RamPOL Mariusz Fyrstenberg
POL Marcin Matkowski6–3, 6–3
2007IND Mahesh Bhupathi
SRB Nenad ZimonjićPOL Mariusz Fyrstenberg
POL Marcin Matkowski6–3, 6–3
2008BRA Marcelo Melo
BRA André SáIND Mahesh Bhupathi
BAH Mark Knowles7–5, 6–2
2009AUT Julian Knowle
AUT Jürgen MelzerBRA Bruno Soares
ZIM Kevin Ullyett6–4, 7–6(7-3)
2010SWE Robert Lindstedt
ROU Horia TecăuIND Rohan Bopanna
PAK Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi6–4, 7–5

2011 earthquake

On August 23, 2011, 1:51 PM local time a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Virginia stopped play for two hours while the main stadium was checked for damage by the fire department.

References

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