Morocco Open

2024 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem
Tournament information
Founded	2001
Location	Casablanca (2001–2004); Rabat (2005–2006); Fez (2007–2012); Marrakesh (2013–2015); Rabat (since 2016); Morocco
Venue	Club des Cheminots
Category	Tier V (2001–2004); Tier IV (2005–2008); International (since 2009)
Surface	Clay - outdoors
Draw	32S / 16Q / 16D
Prize money	US$259,303 (2023)
Website	frmt.ma
Current champions (2023)
Singles	Lucia Bronzetti
Doubles	Sabrina Santamaria ; Yana Sizikova

Last updated May 19, 2024

The Morocco Open or Rabat Grand Prix (for sponsorship reasons called the Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem), is a women's professional tennis tournament currently held in Rabat, Morocco. This WTA Tour event is classified as an International tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts.

History

The event started in July 2001 in Casablanca, Morocco. It stayed in that city until 2005, when it was moved to Rabat the first time. In 2007, the tournament changed location again, this time to Fez. In 2013 it was relocated to Marrakesh, before returning to Rabat in 2016.

The tournament is named after Princess Lalla Meryem, the sister of Mohammed VI, King of Morocco.

From 2005 through 2008, the tournament was a Tier IV event. Before 2005, it was a Tier V event.

Past finals

Singles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Casablanca	2001	Zsófia Gubacsi	Maria Elena Camerin	1–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–5)
	2002	Patricia Wartusch	Klára Koukalová	5–7, 6–3, 6–3
	2003	Rita Grande	Antonella Serra Zanetti	6–2, 4–6, 6–1
	2004	Émilie Loit	Ľudmila Cervanová	6–2, 6–2
Rabat	2005	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Zheng Jie	6–4, 6–2
Rabat	2006	Meghann Shaughnessy	Martina Suchá	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
Fez	2007	Milagros Sequera	Aleksandra Wozniak	6–1, 6–3
	2008	Gisela Dulko	Anabel Medina Garrigues	7–6^(7–2), 7–6^(7–5)
	2009	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Ekaterina Makarova	6–0, 6–1
	2010	Iveta Benešová	Simona Halep	6–4, 6–2
	2011	Alberta Brianti	Simona Halep	6–4, 6–3
	2012	Kiki Bertens	Laura Pous Tió	7–5, 6–0
Marrakesh	2013	Francesca Schiavone	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	6–1, 6–3
	2014	María Teresa Torró Flor	Romina Oprandi	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
	2015	Elina Svitolina	Tímea Babos	7–5, 7–6^(7–3)
Rabat	2016	Timea Bacsinszky	Marina Erakovic	6–2, 6–1
	2017	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Francesca Schiavone	7–5, 7–5
	2018	Elise Mertens	Ajla Tomljanović	6–2, 7–6^(7–4)
	2019	Maria Sakkari	Johanna Konta	2–6, 6–4, 6–1
	2020- 2021	Not held
	2022	Martina Trevisan	Claire Liu	6–2, 6–1
	2023	Lucia Bronzetti	Julia Grabher	6–4, 5–7, 7–5

Doubles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Casablanca	2001	Åsa Svensson Lubomira Bacheva	María Emilia Salerni María José Martínez	6–3, 6–7^(4–7), 6–1
	2002	Patricia Wartusch Petra Mandula	Gisela Dulko Conchita Martínez Granados	6–2, 6–1
	2003	María Emilia Salerni Gisela Dulko	Olena Tatarkova Henrieta Nagyová	6–3, 6–4
	2004	Marion Bartoli Émilie Loit	Katarina Srebotnik Els Callens	6–4, 6–2
Rabat	2005	Émilie Loit (2) Barbora Strýcová	Lourdes Domínguez Nuria Llagostera Vives	3–6, 7–6^(7–5), 7–5
Rabat	2006	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	Ashley Harkleroad Bethanie Mattek	6–1, 6–3
Fez	2007	Sania Mirza Vania King	Andreea Ehritt-Vanc Anastasia Rodionova	6–1, 6–2
	2008	Sorana Cîrstea Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Alisa Kleybanova Ekaterina Makarova	6–2, 6–2
	2009	Alisa Kleybanova Ekaterina Makarova	Sorana Cîrstea Maria Kirilenko	6–3, 2–6, [10–8]
	2010	Iveta Benešová Anabel Medina Garrigues	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	6–3, 6–1
	2011	Andrea Hlaváčková Renata Voráčová	Nina Bratchikova Sandra Klemenschits	6–3, 6–4
	2012	Petra Cetkovská Alexandra Panova	Irina-Camelia Begu Alexandra Cadanțu	3–6, 7–6^(7–5), [11–9]
Marrakesh	2013	Tímea Babos Mandy Minella	Petra Martić Kristina Mladenovic	6–3, 6–1
	2014	Garbiñe Muguruza Romina Oprandi	Katarzyna Piter Maryna Zanevska	4–6, 6–2, [11-9]
	2015	Tímea Babos (2) Kristina Mladenovic	Laura Siegemund Maryna Zanevska	6–1, 7–6^(7–5)
Rabat	2016	Xenia Knoll Aleksandra Krunić	Tatjana Maria Raluca Olaru	6–3, 6–0
	2017	Tímea Babos (3) Andrea Hlaváčková (2)	Nina Stojanović Maryna Zanevska	2–6, 6–3, [10–5]
	2018	Anna Blinkova Raluca Olaru	Georgina García Pérez Fanny Stollár	6–4, 6–4
	2019	María José Martínez Sánchez Sara Sorribes Tormo	Georgina García Pérez Oksana Kalashnikova	7–5, 6–1
	2020- 2021	Not held
	2022	Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya	Monica Niculescu Alexandra Panova	6–7^(7–9), 6–3, [10–8]
	2023	Sabrina Santamaria Yana Sizikova	Ingrid Gamarra Martins Lidziya Marozava	3–6, 6–1, [10–8]

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