| Taipei WTA Challenger | |
| Event Name: | Taipei WTA Challenger |
| City: | Taipei City |
| Country: | Taiwan |
| Venue: | Taipei Arena |
| Category: | WTA 125K series |
| Surface: | Carpet - indoors |
| Draw: | 32 / 16 / 16 |
| Prize Money: | (2019) |
| Singles: |  Vitalia Diatchenko |
| Doubles: | Lee Ya-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien |
The Taipei Open or Taipei WTA Challenger was a tournament for female professional tennis players played on indoor carpet courts. The event was classified as a WTA 125 tournament, and held annually in November in Taipei City, from 2008 until 2015, and was sponsored by the OEC Group. In 2012, the event was upgraded from a $100k ITF tournament to a WTA Challenger tournament. Its final edition took place in 2019.
In 2007, OEC Group Chairman Robert Han organized an ITF tournament in Taoyuan where the prize was $50,000 plus hotel.[1] [2] [3] OEC has retroactively referred to the event as the 2007 OEC Cup Taiwan Ladies Open.[1] [4]
In October 18–20, 2008, the OEC Group held the 2008 OEC Taipei Ladies Open, which was a WTA-sanctioned ITF $100,000+H tournament.[5] held at the National Taiwan University Gymnasium and the Taipei Arena.[6] [7] In 2010 and 2011, it was called the OEC Taipei Ladies Open, and it was also sometimes referred to as the Haishuo Cup (海碩盃).[1] [8] [9]
In 2012, the event was upgraded to a WTA 125 event.[5] [10] It had attracted over 60,000 visitors.[11] In 2013, the tournament was renamed to OEC Taipei WTA Challenger.[1] [12] [13] [14] and used that name subsequently.[15]
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF $75k Kaohsiung event ↓ | ||||
| †2006 | Chan Yung-jan | 5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–0 | ||
| ↓ $50k Taoyuan event ↓ | ||||
| 2007 |  Akiko Morigami | 6–4, 7–6 (7–5) [16] | ||
| ↓ $100k+H event ↓ | ||||
| 2008 |  Jarmila Gajdošová | 4–6, 6–4, 6–1 | ||
| 2009 | Chan Yung-jan | 6–4, 2–6, 6–2 | ||
 Peng Shuai [17] | 6–1, 6–4 | |||
| Ayumi Morita | 6–2, 6–2 | |||
| ↓ WTA 125 event ↓ | ||||
 Kristina Mladenovic | 6–4, 6–3 | |||
 Alison Van Uytvanck | 6–4, 6–2 | |||
| Vitalia Diatchenko | 1–6, 6–2, 6–4 | |||
 Tímea Babos | 7–5, 6–3 | |||
| Evgeniya Rodina | 6–4, 6–3 | |||
| Belinda Bencic | 7–6(7–3), 6–1 | |||
 Luksika Kumkhum | 6–1, 6–3 | |||
| Vitalia Diatchenko (2) | 6–3, 6–2 | |||
| 2020 | ||||
† – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ ITF $50k Taoyuan event ↓ | ||||
| †2007 | Chan Yung-jan Chan Hao-ching | 6–1, 2–6, [14–12] | ||
| ↓ $100k+H event ↓ | ||||
| 2008 | Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei | 6–3, 6–3 | ||
| 2009 | Chan Yung-jan (2) Chuang Chia-jung (2) | 6–3, 3–6, [10–7] | ||
| Chang Kai-chen Chuang Chia-jung (3) | 6–4, 6–2 | |||
| Chan Yung-jan (3) Zheng Jie | 7–6(7–5), 5–7, [10–5] | |||
| ↓ WTA 125 event ↓ | ||||
| Chan Hao-ching (2) Kristina Mladenovic | 5–7, 6–2, [10–8] | |||
Caroline Garcia  Yaroslava Shvedova | 6–3, 6–3 | |||
| Chan Hao-ching (3) Chan Yung-jan (4) | 6–4, 6–3 | |||
| Kanae Hisami Kotomi Takahata | 6–1, 6–2 | |||
| Natela Dzalamidze Veronika Kudermetova | 4–6, 6–3, [10–5] | |||
Veronika Kudermetova (2)  Aryna Sabalenka | 2–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–6] | |||
 Ankita Raina Karman Thandi | 6–3, 5–7, [12–12] ret. | |||
| Lee Ya-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien | 4–6, 6–4, [10–7] | |||
| 2020 | ||||
† – note: not considered the Taipei Open by some sources