Moscow Ladies Open

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Moscow Ladies Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Event nameMoskwa Indoor
(1967-68)
Moskwa Open Championships (1969)
Moskwa Open (1970-71)
Moscow Open (1973-74, 1989-90)
St. Petersburg Open (1991)
Moscow Ladies Open (1994–95)
Tour WTA Tour
Founded1967
Abolished1995
Editions12
LocationMoscow, Russia
SurfaceWood Court (i) (1967-71)
Carpet (i) (1973-75, 1989-95)

The Moscow Ladies Open was WTA Tour affiliated indoor carpet court tennis tournament first founded in 1967 as a combined indoor wood court event called the Moskwa Indoor and played in Moscow, Soviet Union. That event switched to carpet courts in 1973 until 1975 then was discontinued.

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In 1989 it was revived as a women's tournament called the Moscow Open, with its tour name being branded as the Virginia Slims of Moscow that year. In 1991 the event was moved to St. Petersburg and branded as the St. Petersburg Open for one season then ended. In 1994 it was revived and had moved back to Moscow as the Moscow Ladies Open.

In 1996 the tournament was incorporated into the ATP Kremlin Cup, making it a combined event that season.

In 2018, a new successor tournament returned to Moscow in the WTA Tour calendar as clay court championship called the Moscow River Cup.[ citation needed ]

Finals

Singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
1989 Flag of the United States.svg Gretchen Magers Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Natasha Zvereva 6–3, 6–4
1990 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Leila Meskhi Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Elena Brioukhovets 6–4, 6–4
1991 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Larisa Savchenko Flag of Germany.svg Barbara Rittner 3–6, 6–3, 6–4
1992
1993
not held
1994 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Magdalena Maleeva Flag of Italy.svg Sandra Cecchini 7–5, 6–1
1995 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Magdalena Maleeva Flag of Russia.svg Elena Makarova 6–4, 6–2

Doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
1989 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Larisa Savchenko
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Natasha Zvereva
Flag of France.svg Nathalie Herreman
Flag of France.svg Catherine Suire
6–3, 6–4
1990 Flag of the United States.svg Gretchen Magers
Flag of the United States.svg Robin White
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Elena Brioukhovets
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Svetlana Parkhomenko
6–2, 6–4
1991 Flag of Ukraine.svg Elena Brioukhovets
Flag of Ukraine.svg Natalia Medvedeva
Flag of France.svg Isabelle Demongeot
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jo Durie
7–5, 6–3
1992
1993
not held
1994 Flag of Russia.svg Elena Makarova
Flag of Russia.svg Eugenia Maniokova
Flag of Italy.svg Laura Golarsa
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Caroline Vis
7–6, 6–4
1995 Flag of the United States.svg Meredith McGrath
Flag of Latvia.svg Larisa Savchenko
Flag of Russia.svg Anna Kournikova
Flag of Poland.svg Aleksandra Olsza
6–1, 6–0

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