WTA Indian Open

Canara Bank Bangalore Open

The Canara Bank Bangalore Open was a professional women's tennis tournament held in Bangalore, Karnataka, India from 2003 through to 2008. It was a WTA Tour event played on outdoor hardcourts. It was classified as a Tier 2 event with the prize Money of US$600,000. In 2008, this was the biggest women's tennis Tournament in South and Southeast Asia.

The 2008 edition was won by 26-year old, 8 time grand-slam champion Serena Williams, who defeated Patty Schnyder 7-5, 6-3, in the finals, winning her 29th WTA Tour title.

Following the restructure of the WTA Tour, there has been no WTA event in India since 2009.

History

The event started in 2003 as a Tier 4 event. It was held in Hyderabad, Telangana until 2005. In 2006, the event was upgraded to a Tier 3 event and was moved to Bangalore. In 2008, it was upgraded further to a Tier 2 event.

Sponsors

This event was sponsored by the Canara Bank.

Past finals

Singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Bangalore	2008	Serena Williams	Patty Schnyder	7–5, 6–3
	↑   Tier II event   ↑
	2007	Yaroslava Shvedova	Mara Santangelo	6–4, 6–4
	2006	Mara Santangelo	Jelena Kostanić	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–3
↑   Tier III event   ↑
Hyderabad	2005	Sania Mirza	Alona Bondarenko	6–4, 5–7, 6–3
	2004	Nicole Pratt	Maria Kirilenko	7–6, 6–1
	2003	Tamarine Tanasugarn	Iroda Tulyaganova	6–4, 6–4
↑   Tier IV event   ↑

Doubles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Hyderabad	2003	Elena Likhovtseva Iroda Tulyaganova	Evgenia Kulikovskaya Tatiana Poutchek	6–4, 6–4
	2004	Sania Mirza Liezel Huber	Li Ting Sun Tiantian	7–6, 6–4
	2005	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	Li Ting Sun Tiantian	6–4, 6–1
Bangalore	2006	Sania Mirza Liezel Huber	Elena Vesnina Anastasia Rodionova	6–3, 6–3
	2007	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	Hsieh Su-wei Alla Kudryavtseva	6–7(4–7), 6–2, [11–9]
	2008	Peng Shuai Sun Tiantian	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 5–7, [10–8]

See also

• List of tennis tournaments