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 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players.
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.
Viktorija Golubic is a Swiss professional tennis player. Golubic has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, three singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as ten singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit so far. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 15 January 2018, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings.
Dalma Rebeka Gálfi is a Hungarian professional tennis player.
Océane Dodin is a professional tennis player from France. Ranked by the WTA, she reached a career-high in singles of No. 46 in June 2017, and in doubles of No. 375 in October 2017. Dodin won the 2016 Coupe Banque Nationale in Québec as part of the WTA Tour and a further 16 singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Ellen Perez is an Australian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings in singles and doubles are world No. 162 and No. 9, achieved in August 2019 and in June 2023. She has won five 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 will be a WTA 125 tournament starting 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.
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 tennis player. In 2023, she won junior Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and the French Open and reached No. 1 in the ITF junior world rankings.
Henrique Rocha is a professional tennis player from Portugal. He achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 255 on 27 November 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 213 on 27 November 2023.
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.
2023 Figueira da Foz International Ladies Open 
