Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who is the current Mayor of Figueira da Foz. He most notably served as prime minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005.
Figueira da Foz, also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, 40 km (25 mi) west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills, sharing about the same latitude with Philadelphia, Baku and Beijing. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 62,125, in an area of 379.05 km2 (146.35 sq mi). The city of Figueira da Foz proper has a population of 46,600. It is the second largest city in the district of Coimbra.
The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra is an administrative division in Portugal. It was created in October 2013, replacing the previously existing Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra. Since January 2015, Região de Coimbra is also a NUTS3 subregion of Centro Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. The main city and seat of the intermunicipal community is Coimbra. The population in 2011 was 460,139, in an area of 4,335.57 km².
Cabo Mondego is a cape located in central western Portugal bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It is the westernmost point of the Serra da Boa Viagem and is located three kilometers north of Figueira da Foz. It is classified as a natural monument since 2007.
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.
Océane Dodin is a French professional tennis player. She reached a career-high ranking in singles of No. 46 in June 2017, and in doubles of No. 375 in October 2017, as ranked by the WTA. Dodin has won one WTA Tour title at the 2016 Coupe Banque Nationale, and a further 17 singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best result at a major is reaching the fourth round of the 2024 Australian Open.
Ellen Perez is an Australian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 162 and No. 7, achieved in August 2019 and in April 2024. She has won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour, two doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as two singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Ramal da Figueira da Foz, also known as Ramal de Pampilhosa, and originally as Linha da Beira Alta, together with the section from Pampilhosa to Vilar Formoso, is a closed railway line in Portugal. It connected the stations of Figueira da Foz to the station of Pampilhosa, at the junction of Linha do Norte and Linha da Beira Alta, with a total length 50.4 km. It was opened on 3 August 1882, and closed on 5 January 2009, for safety reasons.
The Caldas da Rainha Ladies Open is a tournament for professional female tennis players. The event is classified as a $60,000+H ITF Women's Circuit tournament and has been held on outdoor hardcourts in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, since 2019.
The 2019 Oeste Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal between 23 and 29 September 2019.
The Oeiras Ladies Open is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. It is a WTA 125 tournament as it was upgraded from ITF W100 event in 2024, having grown its status every year since its introduction in 2021. The first edition was a $60,000 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour event, the second edition in 2022 was a $80,000 event and the third in 2023 was a $100,000 event.
The 2021 Portugal Ladies Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal between 13 and 19 September 2021.
Petra Marčinko is a Croatian tennis player.
The 2022 Caldas da Rainha Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal between 12 and 18 September 2022.
Alina Aleksandrovna Korneeva is a Russian professional tennis player. In 2023, she won two Grand Slam girls' singles titles at the Australian Open and the French Open and reached world No. 1 in the ITF junior rankings.
Henrique Rocha is a professional tennis player from Portugal. He achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 174 on 17 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 180 on 6 May 2024.
Jamie Loeb was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Dallas instead.
Alexandra Bozovic and Francisca Jorge were the defending champions but Bozovic chose not to participate. Jorge played alongside her sister Matilde, but they lost in the quarterfinals against Isabelle Haverlag and Yuriko Miyazaki.
The 2023 Figueira da Foz International Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Figueira da Foz, Portugal between 24 and 30 July 2023.
The 2024 Figueira da Foz International Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2024 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, between 22 and 28 July 2024.
2024 Figueira da Foz International Ladies Open 
