WTA 125 tournaments

WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012.

Sometimes called the WTA Challenger tour (analogous to the men's ATP Challenger Series),^[1][2] it is the second highest level of women's competition, below the top-tier WTA Tour, and above the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour tournaments.

Players who succeed in the WTA 125s earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for the main draw or qualifying draw entry of WTA Tour tournaments. Titles and losses at a WTA 125 event are separately counted from a player's WTA Tour results and corresponding head-to-head statistics.^{[citation needed]}

Tournament locations

Asia

• China: Anning (2018–2019), Dalian (2015–2017), Nanchang (2014–2015), Nanjing (2013), Ningbo (2013–2014), Suzhou (2013–2014), Zhengzhou (2017–2018)
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong (2024)
• India: Pune (2012), Mumbai (2017–2018, 2024)
• South Korea: Seoul (2021)
• Taiwan: Taipei (2012–2019)
• Thailand: Hua Hin (2015, 2017)
• Turkey: Antalya (2024)

Europe

• Andorra: Andorra la Vella (2022–2023)
• Croatia: Bol (2016–2019, 2021), Makarska (2022–present)
• Czech Republic: Prague (2020)
• France: Angers (2021–present), Contrexéville (2022–present), Limoges (2014–2019, 2021–present), Paris (2022–present), Rouen (2022–2023), Saint-Malo (2021–present)
• Germany: Karlsruhe (2019, 2021–2022), Hamburg (2024)
• Hungary: Budapest (2022)
• Italy: Bari (2022–present), Gaiba (2022–present), Florence (2023), Parma (2023–present)
• Poland: Grodzisk Mazowiecki (2023), Warsaw (2024)
• Portugal: Oeiras (2024)
• Romania: Bucharest (2022–present), Iași (2022–2023)
• Serbia: Belgrade (2021)
• Slovenia: Ljubljana (2023–present)
• Spain: La Bisbal d'Empordà (2023–present), Lleida (2024), Marbella (2022), Reus (2023), Valencia (2022–present)
• Sweden: Båstad (2019, 2021–present)
• Switzerland: Montreux (2024)
• United Kingdom: Birmingham (2025)

North America

• Canada: Vancouver (2022)
• Mexico: Guadalajara (2019, 2024), Puerto Vallarta (2024–present), San Luis Potosí (2023–present), Tampico (2022–present)
• United States: Carlsbad (2015), Charleston (2021, 2024), Chicago (2018, 2021, 2023), Columbus (2021), Concord (2021–2022), Honolulu (2016–2017), Houston (2018–2019), Indian Wells (2018–2020), Midland (2021–present), New Haven (2019), Newport Beach (2018–2020), San Antonio (2016), Stanford (2023)

Oceania

• Australia : Canberra (2024)

South America

• Argentina: Buenos Aires (2021–present)
• Bolivia: Santa Cruz (2024–present)
• Brazil: Florianópolis (2023–present)
• Chile: Colina (2022–present)
• Colombia: Barranquilla (2023–present), Cali (2013, 2023–present)
• Uruguay: Montevideo (2021–2023)

Historic names

2012–2020
WTA 125K Series

2021–present
WTA 125

Prize money

The tournaments offer total prize money of $125,000–$162,480. An exception was made in case of 2020 Advantage Cars Prague Open which had a prize money of $3,125,000 which was funded by 2020 US Open organizers to make up for the lack of a qualifying draw as many low ranked players, mainly from Europe were unable to travel to New York due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Points distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	R16	R32	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	125	81	49	27	15	1	6	4	1
Doubles					1	—
Doubles (8D)				1	—

Singles champions

WTA 125K Series

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Newport Beach	Not an event						Collins	Andreescu	Brengle
Cali	ITF Women's Circuit	Arruabarrena Vecino	Not an Event
Indian Wells	Not an event						Errani	Golubic	Begu
San Antonio	Not an event				Doi	Not an event
Guadalajara	Not an event							Kudermetova	Cancelled
Zhengzhou	Not an event		ITF Women's Circuit			Q Wang	S Zheng	WTA Premier
Xi'an	Not an event		ITF Women's Circuit	Not an event					Cancelled
Anning	Not an event		ITF Women's Circuit				Khromacheva	S Zheng
West Hempstead	Not an event				Cancelled	Not an event
Bol	Not an event				Minella	Krunić	Zidanšek	Zidanšek	Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
Båstad	WTA International							Doi
Karlsruhe	Not an event							Țig
Chicago/New Haven	Not an event						Martić	Blinkova
Nanchang	Not an event		Peng	Janković	WTA International
Prague	Not an event			ITF Women's Circuit				ITF Women's Tour	Kučová
Suzhou	ITF Women's Circuit	Pe'er	Friedsam	ITF Women's Circuit				ITF Women's Tour	Not an event
Portschach	WTA International				Not an event				Cancelled
Dalian	Not an event			S Zheng	Kr Plíšková	Kozlova	Not an event
Ningbo	ITF Women's Circuit	Jovanovski	Linette	Not an event
Warsaw	Not an event								Cancelled
Nanjing	Not an event	Zhang	Not an event	ITF Women's Circuit	Not an event
Pune or Mumbai	Svitolina	Not an Event				Sabalenka	Kumkhum	Not an Event
Hua Hin	Not an event			Shvedova	Cancelled	Bencic	Not an event	WTA International
Taipei	Mladenovic	Van Uytvanck	Diatchenko	Babos	Rodina	Bencic	Kumkhum	Diatchenko	Cancelled
Houston	Not an event						Peng	Flipkens
Limoges	ITF Women's Circuit		Smitková	Garcia	Alexandrova	Niculescu	Alexandrova	Alexandrova
Carlsbad or Honolulu	WTA Premier		Not an event	Wickmayer	Bellis	Zhang	Exhibition event		Not an event

WTA 125

Tournament	2021	2022	2023	2024
Canberra	Not an event		ITF Women's Tour	Párrizas Díaz
Cali	Not an event		Podoroska	Begu
Mumbai	Not an event			Semeņistaja
Puerto Vallarta	Not an event			Kessler
Marbella	Not an event	Sherif	Not an event
San Luis Potosí	Not an event		Cocciaretto	Podoroska
Antalya	Not an event			Bouzas Maneiro
Oeiras	ITF Women's Tour			Lamens
Saint-Malo	Golubic	Haddad Maia	Stephens	Boisson
Reus/Lleida	Not an event		Cîrstea	Siniaková
Florence			Paolini	Not an event
Paris	Not an event	Liu	Parry	Shnaider [a]
Bol/Makarska	Paolini	Niemeier	Sherif	Volynets
La Bisbal d'Empordà	ITF Women's Tour		Rus	Carlé
Valencia	ITF Women's Tour	Q Zheng	Sherif	Li
Gaiba	Not an event	Van Uytvanck	Krueger	Parks
Båstad	Párrizas Díaz	Jang	Danilović	Trevisan
Contrexéville	ITF Women's Tour	Errani	Rus	Bronzetti
Charleston	Lepchenko	ITF Women's Tour		Cocciaretto
Belgrade	Schmiedlová	Not an event
Iași	Not an event	Bogdan	Bogdan	WTA 250
Concord	Fręch	Vandeweghe	Not an event
Kozerki/Warsaw	ITF Women's Tour		Yastremska	Parks
Hamburg	WTA 250			Bondár
Barranquilla	Not an event	ITF Women's Tour	Maria	Podoroska
Chicago	Tauson	Not an event	Tomova	Not an event
Vancouver	Not an event	Grammatikopoulou	ITF Women's Tour	Not an event
Stanford	Not an event		Y Wang	Not an event
Guadalajara	WTA 250		Not an event	Rakhimova[a]
Montreux	Not an event			Begu
Karlsruhe	Sherif	Sherif	Not an event
Portorož	WTA 250		Not an event
Columbus	Párrizas Díaz	Not an event
Bari	Not an event	Grabher	Zidanšek	Todoni
Bucharest		Begu	Sharma	Bulgaru
Budapest		Korpatsch	Not an event
Ljubljana	Not an event		Bassols Ribera	Teichmann
Parma	WTA 250		Bogdan	Schmiedlová
Rouen	Not an event	Zanevska	Golubic	WTA 250
Hong Kong	Not an event			Tomljanović
Tampico	not an event	Cocciaretto	Bektas	Stakusic
Santa Cruz	Not an event			Todoni
Midland	Brengle	McNally	Kalinskaya[a]	Marino
Taipei	Cancelled		Not an event
Colina	ITF Women's Tour	Sherif	Bejlek
Florianópolis	Not an event		Tomljanović
Buenos Aires	Bondár	Udvardy	Pigossi
Andorra la Vella	Not an event	Parks	Bassols Ribera	Not an event
Montevideo	Parry	Shnaider[a]	Zarazúa	Not an event
Angers	Diatchenko	Parks	Burel
Limoges	Van Uytvanck	Kalinina	Bucșa
Seoul	Zhu	WTA 250		WTA 500

Records

• as of 11 November 2024^[update]

Most titles by player

No. Singles 6 Mayar Sherif 4 Irina-Camelia Begu Alycia Parks 3 Ekaterina Alexandrova Ana Bogdan Elisabetta Cocciaretto Vitalia Diatchenko Viktorija Golubic Nuria Párrizas Díaz Nadia Podoroska Alison Van Uytvanck Zheng Saisai Tamara Zidanšek

No. Doubles 5 Irina Bara Aliona Bolsova Dalila Jakupović Asia Muhammad 4 Cristina Bucșa Misaki Doi Ekaterine Gorgodze Oksana Kalashnikova Katarzyna Kawa Irina Khromacheva Veronika Kudermetova Wang Yafan

Most finals by player

No. Singles 10 Mayar Sherif 6 Irina-Camelia Begu Arantxa Rus Zhang Shuai 5 Elisabetta Cocciaretto Sara Errani Alycia Parks Diane Parry Panna Udvardy Zheng Saisai

No. Doubles 14 Oksana Kalashnikova 9 Dalila Jakupović Asia Muhammad 8 Aliona Bolsova Eri Hozumi Irina Khromacheva Renata Voráčová 7 Katarzyna Piter 6 Tímea Babos Irina Bara Cristina Bucșa Han Xinyun Tereza Mihalíková Angelica Moratelli Katarzyna Kawa

Most titles by country

No. Singles 18 United States 13 Romania 11 China 10 Russia ± 8 Italy 7 Spain 6 Belgium Egypt France Switzerland

No. Doubles 25 United States 13 China Chinese Taipei Spain 12 Japan 11 Russia[b] 10 Romania 9 Czech Republic Georgia Hungary

Youngest champions

Singles Age Player Title 17 years, 233 days CiCi Bellis Honolulu 2016 17 years, 292 days Sára Bejlek Colina 2023 18 years, 60 days Elina Svitolina Pune 2012 18 years, 225 days Bianca Andreescu Newport Beach 2019 18 years, 239 days Diana Shnaider[a] Montevideo 2022 18 years, 244 days Clara Tauson Chicago 2021 19 years, 49 days Ashlyn Krueger Gaiba 2023 19 years, 81 days Diane Parry Montevideo 2021 19 years, 174 days Kristina Mladenovic Taipei 2012 19 years, 205 days Aryna Sabalenka Mumbai 2017

Doubles Age Player Title 18 years, 160 days Céline Naef Andorra la Vella 2023 18 years, 183 days Kateřina Siniaková Limoges 2014 19 years, 46 days Chan Hao-ching Taipei 2012 19 years, 69 days Diana Shnaider[a] La Bisbal d'Empordà 2023 19 years, 161 days Erika Andreeva[a] Andorra la Vella 2023 19 years, 174 days Kristina Mladenovic Taipei 2012 19 years, 198 days Aryna Sabalenka Taipei 2017 19 years, 210 days Veronika Kudermetova Taipei 2016 19 years, 332 days Barbora Krejčíková Limoges 2015 19 years, 364 days Wang Xinyu Columbus 2021

Oldest champions

Singles Age Player Title 36 years, 12 days Tatjana Maria Barranquilla 2023 35 years, 72 days Varvara Lepchenko Charleston 2021 35 years, 72 days Sara Errani Contrexéville 2022 34 years, 75 days Irina-Camelia Begu Cali 2024 34 years, 13 days Irina-Camelia Begu (2) Montreux 2024 33 years, 330 days Rebecca Marino Midland 2024 33 years, 311 days Kirsten Flipkens Houston 2019 33 years, 30 days Sorana Cîrstea Reus 2023 32 years, 315 days Peng Shuai Houston 2018 32 years, 215 days Arantxa Rus Contrexéville 2023

Doubles Age Player Title 38 years, 255 days Vera Zvonareva[a] Paris 2023 37 years, 103 days Vera Zvonareva (2) Limoges 2021 37 years, 11 days Monica Niculescu Hong Kong 2024 36 years, 210 days Sara Errani Florianópolis 2023 35 years, 302 days Renata Voráčová Karlsruhe 2019 35 years, 205 days Sara Errani (2) Buenos Aires 2022 36 years, 76 days Monica Niculescu (2) Angers 2023 34 years, 359 days Bibiane Schoofs Saint-Malo 2023 34 years, 85 days Monica Niculescu (3) Limoges 2021 34 years, 11 days Alena Fomina-Klotz[a] Contrexéville 2023

Highest-ranked winners

Singles Rank Player Title 25 Jelena Janković Nanchang 2015 35 Caroline Garcia Limoges 2015 36 Zhang Shuai Honolulu 2017 40 Mayar Sherif Valencia 2023 Kateřina Siniaková Lleida 2024 41 Bojana Jovanovski Ningbo 2013 Irina-Camelia Begu Bucharest 2022 42 Ekaterina Alexandrova Limoges 2019 44 Sorana Cîrstea Reus 2023 47 Anhelina Kalinina Limoges 2022 Petra Martić Chicago 2018 Alison Van Uytvanck Gaiba 2022

Doubles Rank Player Title 7 Nicole Melichar-Martinez Lleida 2024 Ellen Perez 11 Storm Hunter Reus 2023 16 Ellen Perez (2) 25 Zhang Shuai Angers 2022 26 Anna Danilina Paris 2023 27 Chan Hao-ching Taipei 2014 Anna-Lena Grönefeld San Antonio 2016 Kristina Mladenovic Cali 2024 28 Kristina Mladenovic (2) Taipei 2012 Asia Muhammad Midland 2022

Lowest-ranked winners

Singles Rank Player Title 543 Ajla Tomljanović Florianópolis 2023 296 Peng Shuai Houston 2018 239 Valentini Grammatikopoulou Vancouver 2022 223 Patricia Maria Țig Karlsruhe 2019 216 Astra Sharma Bucharest 2023 210 Irina Khromacheva Anning 2018 202 Miriam Bulgaru Bucharest 2024 194 Sára Bejlek Colina 2023 192 CoCo Vandeweghe Concord 2022 191 Loïs Boisson Saint-Malo 2024

Doubles Rank Player Title unranked Varvara Flink[a] Concord 2022 1014 Elisabetta Cocciaretto Bari 2022 944 Mirjam Björklund Båstad 2021 826 Wang Xinyu Columbus 2021 809 Hsieh Shu-ying Honolulu 2017 632 Tamara Zidanšek San Luis Potosí 2024 550 Jodie Burrage Stanford 2023 515 Claire Liu Gaiba 2022 491 Madison Brengle Gaiba 2022 458 Maegan Manasse Houston 2018

See also

• WTA Tour
• ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
• ATP Challenger Tour
• ATP 125 tournaments
• ATP 175 tournaments

Notes

1. As of 1 March 2022, the WTA announced that players from Russia and Belarus will not compete under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3]
2. Titles won by Russian athletes were not counted in their official tally since 1 March 2022 due to Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

References

1. OEC WTA Challenger, 2015
2. "Taipei to host first WTA tennis challenger event". 18 May 2012. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
3. "Joint Statement by the International Governing Bodies of Tennis". WTA. Retrieved 28 November 2022.