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WTA Swiss Open

Professional tennis tournament

Summary

Professional tennis tournament

Field	Value
name	Ladies Open Lausanne
type	defunct
founded	1899
ended	2023
city	Lausanne
country	Switzerland
tier	WTA 250
event name	WTA Swiss Open (1977–85)
European Open (1986–94)
Ladies Championship Gstaad (2016–2018)
Ladies Open Lausanne (2019–2023)
tour	WTA Tour
surface	Clay (red) - outdoors
draw	32S / 24Q / 16D
prize money	(2023)
website	ladiesopenlausanne.ch
completed event	2023

European Open (1986–94) Ladies Championship Gstaad (2016–2018) Ladies Open Lausanne (2019–2023) The Ladies Open Lausanne was originally founded in 1899 as the Swiss International Championships. It was a women's professional tennis tournament last held in Lausanne but has been held in a number of locations in Switzerland.

History

The Swiss International Championships was founded in 1897 as a men's only event and staged at the Grasshopper Club, Zurich under the auspices of the Swiss Lawn Tennis Association. In 1898 the Swiss Lawn Tennis Association staged the event at Château d’Oex. In 1899 an open women's singles event was added to the schedule, when the venue was still in Saint Moritz. It was then hosted at multiple locations throughout its run including Gstaad. The first edition of the Gstaad International tournament was played in 1915 at the Gstaad Palace Hotel, which was known at the time as the Royal Hotel, Winter & Gstaad Palace, and was organized in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Club (LTC) Gstaad. In 1968 the tournament was renamed the Swiss Open International Championships or simply Swiss Open Championships, and was then staged permanently at Gstaad. The women's event was called the Gstaad International from 1969.

The Swiss International Championships were staged at the following locations throughout its run including Basel, Champéry, Geneva, Gstaad, Les Avants, Montreux, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, Ragatz, St. Moritz, Zermatt, and Zurich from 1897 to 1967.

The event was called the WTA Swiss Open from 1977 to 1985, and was played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament underwent a name change in 1986, when it was titled the European Open until its discontinuation. It formed part of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. When the WTA introduced the tiering format to its circuit, the event gradually moved up, from being a Tier V in 1988–1989, a Tier IV from 1990 to 1992, and a Tier III for its remaining years. The WTA announced that the tournament would return in Gstaad as a clay event on the 2016 Tour, replacing another clay court event held in Bad Gastein.

Four Swiss players won the event: Viktorija Golubic in 2016 as well as Manuela Maleeva (who formerly represented Bulgaria) in 1991 won the singles, and Xenia Knoll (in 2016) as well as Christiane Jolissaint won the doubles, the latter on three occasions: 1983, 1984, and 1988. Maleeva holds the record, along with Chris Evert, for most singles wins; both players won the event three times, and Maleeva finished runner-up a further three occasions.

In November 2023, it was announced that the tournament would cease existing, with the license bought out along with another WTA 250 tournament to form a WTA 500 tournament elsewhere.

Past finals

Singles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
For historical winners of this event see Swiss International Championships 1899–1967
Lugano	1968	RSA Annette Van Zyl DuPlooy	FRG Helga Niessen	6–3, 6–3
Gstaad	1969	FRA Françoise Dürr	USA Rosie Casals	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
1970	USA Rosie Casals	FRA Françoise Dürr	6–2, 5–7, 6–2
1971	FRA Françoise Dürr (2)	AUS Lesley Hunt	6–3, 6–3
1972	JPN Kazuko Sawamatsu	USA Pam Teeguarden	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
1973	Not held
1974	FRG Helga Schultze	ITA Lea Pericoli	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
1975	GBR Glynis Coles	RSA Linky Boshoff	9–7, 2–6, 8–6
1976	BEL Michèle Gurdal	FRA Gail Sherriff	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
1977	AUS Lesley Hunt	AUS Helen Gourlay	4–6, 7–5, 6–1
1978	ROM Virginia Ruzici	SUI Petra Delhees	6–2, 6–2
1979–80	Not held
Lugano	1981	USA Chris Evert	ROU Virginia Ruzici	6–1, 6–1
1982	USA Chris Evert (2)	HUN Andrea Temesvári	6–0, 6–3
1983	Cancelled after the third round because of rain
1984	BUL Manuela Maleeva	TCH Iva Budařová	6–1, 6–1
1985	USA Bonnie Gadusek	BUL Manuela Maleeva	6–2, 6–2
1986	ITA Raffaella Reggi	BUL Manuela Maleeva	5–7, 6–3, 7–6(8–6)
Geneva	1987	USA Chris Evert (3)	BUL Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
1988	AUT Barbara Paulus	USA Lori McNeil	6–4, 5–7, 6–1
1989	BUL Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière (2)	ESP Conchita Martínez	6–4, 6–0
1990	AUT Barbara Paulus (2)	CAN Helen Kelesi	2–6, 7–5, 7–6(7–3)
1991	SUI Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière (3)	CAN Helen Kelesi	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Lucerne	1992	USA Amy Frazier	TCH Radka Zrubáková	6–4, 4–6, 7–5
1993	USA Lindsay Davenport	AUS Nicole Bradtke	6–1, 4–6, 6–2
1994	USA Lindsay Davenport (2)	USA Lisa Raymond	7–6(7–3), 6–4
1995–2015	Not held
Gstaad	2016	SUI Viktorija Golubic	NED Kiki Bertens	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
2017	NED Kiki Bertens	EST Anett Kontaveit	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
2018	FRA Alizé Cornet	LUX Mandy Minella	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Lausanne	2019	FRA Fiona Ferro	FRA Alizé Cornet	6–1, 2–6, 6–1
2020	Not held due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021	SLO Tamara Zidanšek	FRA Clara Burel	4–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–1
2022	CRO Petra Martić	SRB Olga Danilović	6–4, 6–2
2023	ITA Elisabetta Cocciaretto	FRA Clara Burel	7–5, 4–6, 6–4

Doubles

Location	Year	Champions
Gstaad	1971	RSA Brenda Kirk
RSA Laura Rossouw	FRA Françoise Dürr
ITA Lea Pericoli	8–6, 6–3
1972–73	Not held
1974	FRG Helga Schultze
ITA Lea Pericoli	JPN Kayoko Fukuoka
CHI Michelle Rodríguez	6–2, 6–0
1975	Not held
1976	USA Betsy Nagelsen
AUS Wendy Turnbull	RSA Brigitte Cuypers
RSA Annette Van Zyl	6–4, 6–4
1977	AUS Helen Gourlay
USA Rayni Fox	USA Mary Carillo
AUS Lesley Hunt	6–0, 6–4
1978–80	Not held
Lugano	1981	RSA Rosalyn Fairbank
RSA Tanya Harford	USA Candy Reynolds
USA Paula Smith	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
1982	USA Candy Reynolds
USA Paula Smith	USA Joanne Russell
ROU Virginia Ruzici	6–2, 6–4
1983	SUI Christiane Jolissaint
NED Marcella Mesker	SUI Petra Delhees
BRA Pat Medrado	6–2, 3–6, 7–5
1984	SUI Christiane Jolissaint
NED Marcella Mesker	TCH Iva Budařová
TCH Marcela Skuherská	6–4, 6–3
1985	USA Bonnie Gadusek
TCH Helena Suková	FRG Bettina Bunge
FRG Eva Pfaff	6–2, 6–4
1986	USA Elise Burgin
USA Betsy Nagelsen	AUS Jenny Byrne
AUS Janine Thompson	6–2, 6–3
Geneva	1987	USA Betsy Nagelsen
AUS Elizabeth Smylie	PER Laura Gildemeister
FRA Catherine Tanvier	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
1988	SUI Christiane Jolissaint
RSA Dianne Van Rensburg	SWE Maria Lindström
FRG Claudia Porwik	6–1, 6–3
1989	USA Katrina Adams
USA Lori McNeil	URS Larisa Neiland
URS Natasha Zvereva	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
1990	AUS Louise Field
RSA Dianne Van Rensburg	USA Elise Burgin
USA Betsy Nagelsen	5–7, 7–6(7–2), 7–5
1991	AUS Nicole Bradtke
AUS Elizabeth Smylie	SUI Cathy Caverzasio
SUI Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière	6–1, 6–2
Lucerne	1992	AUS Amy Frazier
RSA Elna Reinach	TCH Karina Habšudová
USA Marianne Werdel	7–5, 6–2
1993	USA Mary Joe Fernández
CZE Helena Suková	USA Lindsay Davenport
USA Marianne Werdel	6–2, 6–4
1994	Canceled due to rain after two of the quarterfinals
1995–2015	Not held
Gstaad	2016	ESP Lara Arruabarrena
SUI Xenia Knoll	GER Annika Beck
RUS Evgeniya Rodina	6–1, 3–6, [10–8]
2017	NED Kiki Bertens
SWE Johanna Larsson	SUI Viktorija Golubic
SRB Nina Stojanović	7–6(7–4), 4–6, [10–7]
2018	CHI Alexa Guarachi
USA Desirae Krawczyk	ESP Lara Arruabarrena
SUI Timea Bacsinszky	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Lausanne	2019	RUS Anastasia Potapova
RUS Yana Sizikova	AUS Monique Adamczak
CHN Han Xinyun	6–2, 6–4
2020	Not held due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021	SUI Susan Bandecchi
SUI Simona Waltert	NOR Ulrikke Eikeri
GRE Valentini Grammatikopoulou	6–3, 6–7(3–7), [10–5]
2022	SRB Olga Danilović
FRA Kristina Mladenovic	NOR Ulrikke Eikeri
SLO Tamara Zidanšek	Walkover
2023	HUN Anna Bondár
FRA Diane Parry	Amina Anshba
CZE Anastasia Dețiuc	6–2, 6–1

Notes

References

(11 March 2016). "Gstaad event first WTA tournament in Switzerland since 2008". [[ESPN]].
(3 January 2016). "Gstaad, Switzerland, to host WTA tournament for first time since 1964".
"Tennis: Il n'y aura plus de tournoi WTA à Lausanne".

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