Barcelona Ladies Open

The Barcelona Ladies Open was a tennis tournament for women held in Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain and was played on outdoor clay courts. It was an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour with total prize money of $220,000.

Barcelona Ladies Open
Tournament information
Founded	2003
Abolished	2012
Editions	10
Location	Barcelona, Catalonia Spain
Venue	David Lloyd Club Turó (2008–2010) Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron (2007, 2011–2012)
Category	Tier IV (2007–2008) International (2009)
Surface	Clay / outdoors
Draw	32M/32Q/16D
Prize money	$220,000
Website	barcelonaladiesopen.com

The tournament began in November 2003 as a $10,000 challenger event on the ITF Women's Circuit. Prize money was increased to $25,000 the following year; in 2005, the event was moved to October with the prize money increasing to $75,000. In 2007, the tournament was upgraded to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, becoming a Tier IV played in June, and remained in this classification through 2008. Since 2009, the event has been held in April.

In 2013 the event was cancelled due to financial reasons and replaced on the tour by the Nuremberg Cup in Nuremberg, Germany, held the week before Roland Garros.^[1][2]

Results

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓   ITF event   ↓
2003	Marta Fraga Pérez	Ana Ivanovic	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
2004	Laura Pous Tió	Tsvetana Pironkova	4–6, 7–5, 6–2
2005	Kateřina Böhmová	María Sánchez Lorenzo	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
2006	Tathiana Garbin	Ekaterina Ivanova	6–3, 7–5
↓   WTA Tier IV event   ↓
2007	Meghann Shaughnessy	Edina Gallovits	6–3, 6–2
2008	Maria Kirilenko	María José Martínez Sánchez	6–0, 6–2
↓   WTA International event   ↓
2009	Roberta Vinci	Maria Kirilenko	6–0, 6–4
2010	Francesca Schiavone	Roberta Vinci	6–1, 6–1
2011	Roberta Vinci (2)	Lucie Hradecká	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
2012	Sara Errani	Dominika Cibulková	6–2, 6–2
succeeded by Nuremberg Cup

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓   ITF event   ↓
2003	Marta Fraga Pérez Adriana González Peñas	Núria Roig Julia Vakulenko	6–3, 6–3
2004	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Laura Pous Tió	Nina Bratchikova Ekaterina Kozhokhina	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
2005	Lourdes Domínguez Lino (2) María Sánchez Lorenzo	Conchita Martínez Granados María José Martínez Sánchez	7–5, 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3)
2006	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	Edina Gallovits Vanessa Henke	6–1, 6–2
↓   WTA Tier IV event   ↓
2007	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Flavia Pennetta	7–6(7–3), 2–6, [12–10]
2008	Lourdes Domínguez Lino (3) Arantxa Parra Santonja (2)	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	4–6, 7–5, [10–4]
↓   WTA International event   ↓
2009	Nuria Llagostera Vives (2) María José Martínez Sánchez	Sorana Cîrstea Andreja Klepač	3–6, 6–2, [10–8]
2010	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	6–1, 3–6, [10–2]
2011	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	5–7, 6–4, [11–9]
2012	Sara Errani (2) Roberta Vinci (2)	Flavia Pennetta Francesca Schiavone	6–0, 6–2
succeeded by Nuremberg Cup

See also

• Spanish Open
• Barcelona Open
• Barcelona WCT
• List of tennis tournaments

References

1. Pedro Gutiérrez (7 February 2013). "Desaparece el WTA de Barcelona". Puntodebreak.com (in Spanish).
2. "Nürnberg bekommt zweites deutsches WTA-Turnier". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 8 February 2013.

External links

• Official website (in Spanish, Catalan, and English)
• ITF website

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