Moscow Ladies Open

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.

Moscow Ladies Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Moskwa 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
Founded	1967
Abolished	1995
Editions	12
Location	Moscow, Russia
Surface	Wood Court (i) (1967-71) Carpet (i) (1973-75, 1989-95)

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.

Finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1989	Gretchen Magers	Natasha Zvereva	6–3, 6–4
1990	Leila Meskhi	Elena Brioukhovets	6–4, 6–4
1991	Larisa Savchenko	Barbara Rittner	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
1992 – 1993	not held
1994	Magdalena Maleeva	Sandra Cecchini	7–5, 6–1
1995	Magdalena Maleeva	Elena Makarova	6–4, 6–2

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1989	Larisa Savchenko Natasha Zvereva	Nathalie Herreman Catherine Suire	6–3, 6–4
1990	Gretchen Magers Robin White	Elena Brioukhovets Svetlana Parkhomenko	6–2, 6–4
1991	Elena Brioukhovets Natalia Medvedeva	Isabelle Demongeot Jo Durie	7–5, 6–3
1992 – 1993	not held
1994	Elena Makarova Eugenia Maniokova	Laura Golarsa Caroline Vis	7–6, 6–4
1995	Meredith McGrath Larisa Savchenko	Anna Kournikova Aleksandra Olsza	6–1, 6–0

Event Names

Official

• Moskwa Indoor (1967–169)
• Moskwa Open (1970–71)
• Moscow Open (1973–74, 1989–90)
• St. Petersburg Open (1991)
• Moscow Ladies Open (1994–95)

Sponsored

• Virginia Slims of Moscow (1989)
• Kraft General Foods of Moscow (1990)

References

• WTA Results Archive
• "От Мейджерс до Новотной. Краткая история турниров WTA Tour в России" (in Russian). Sport Express. 1998-10-19. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-11-10.