Hua Hin Championships | |
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WTA Tour | |
Event name | Hua Hin Championships |
Founded | 2019 |
Location | Hua Hin Thailand |
Venue | True Arena Hua Hin |
Category | WTA 250 |
Surface | Hard - outdoors |
Draw | 32S / 24Q / 16D |
Prize money | US$267,082 (2024) |
Website | wtatennis.com |
Current champions (2024) | |
Singles | Diana Shnaider |
Doubles | Miyu Kato / Aldila Sutjiadi |
The Hua Hin Championships (also known as the WTA Thailand Open) is a women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour played on outdoor hardcourts in Hua Hin, Thailand. It is currently held in February, following the Australian Open.
On debut in 2019, the event was sponsored by Toyota and was also known as the Toyota Thailand Open. Initially, the event was classified as a WTA International tournament, but has been a WTA 250 tournament as of the 2023 edition; the first to be played since the rebranding of WTA tournament categories in 2020. [1] The tournament did not take place in 2021 and 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
A low-level men's and women's Challenger Tour event was previously held in the same location in 2015 and 2017 in November.
Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
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↓ International ↓ | |||
2019 | Dayana Yastremska | Ajla Tomljanović | 6–2, 2–6, 7–6(7–3) |
2020 | Magda Linette | Leonie Küng | 6–3, 6–2 |
2021–22 | Not held | ||
↓ WTA 250 ↓ | |||
2023 | Zhu Lin | Lesia Tsurenko | 6–4, 6–4 |
2024 | Diana Shnaider | Zhu Lin | 6–3, 2–6, 6–1 |
Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
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↓ International ↓ | |||
2019 | Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu | Anna Blinkova Wang Yafan | 2–6, 6–1, [12–10] |
2020 | Arina Rodionova Storm Sanders | Barbara Haas Ellen Perez | 6–3, 6–3 |
2021–22 | Not held | ||
↓ WTA 250 ↓ | |||
2023 | Chan Hao-ching Wu Fang-hsien | Wang Xinyu Zhu Lin | 6–1, 7–6(8–6) |
2024 | Miyu Kato Aldila Sutjiadi | Guo Hanyu Jiang Xinyu | 6–4, 1–6, [10–7] |
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