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Ostrava Open

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Ostrava Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Event nameAGEL Open
TourATP Tour (1994–98)
WTA Tour (1999; 2020–2022)
Founded1994
Abolished2022
Editions5 (men)
4 (women)
LocationOstrava, Czech Republic (1994-1998; 2020-2022)
Prostějov, Czech Republic (1999)
VenueČEZ Aréna
CategoryWTA 500 (2021-2022)
WTA Premier (2020)
WTA Tier IV (1999)
ATP World Series (1994-1998)
SurfaceCarpet (indoors) (1994–99)
Hard (Indoor) (2020–2022)
Draw28S / 24Q / 16D
Prize moneyUS$757,900 (2022)
Current champions (2022)
Women's singlesCzech Republic Barbora Krejčíková
Women's doublesUnited States Caty McNally
United States Alycia Parks

The Ostrava Open (known as the AGEL Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament organised for female professional tennis players. It was most recently a WTA 500-level tournament held in October, played on indoor hard courts, and first organized in 2020 after a 20 year absence to make up for the many tournaments cancelled during the 2020 season, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2] The tournament was held from 2020-2022, with the WTA announcing in June 2023 that the event would not return.[3]

From 1994 to 1998, the Czech Indoor was a men's tennis tournament that was part of the World Series of the ATP Tour. It was held at the ČEZ Aréna in Ostrava in the Czech Republic and was played on indoor carpet courts.

In 1999, the Nokia Cup was a WTA Tour tournament. It was held in Prostějov in the Czech Republic and played on indoor carpet courts.

Women's results

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Singles

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Location Year Champions Runners-up Score
Prostějov
1999 Slovakia Henrieta Nagyová Italy Silvia Farina 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Ostrava
2020 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka Belarus Victoria Azarenka 6–2, 6–2
2021 Estonia Anett Kontaveit Greece Maria Sakkari 6–2, 7–5
2022 Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková Poland Iga Świątek 5–7, 7–6(7–4), 6–3

Doubles

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Location Year Champions Runners-up Score
Prostějov
1999 France Alexandra Fusai
France Nathalie Tauziat
Czech Republic Květa Hrdličková
Czech Republic Helena Vildová
3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Ostrava
2020 Belgium Elise Mertens
Belarus Aryna Sabalenka
Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
Brazil Luisa Stefani
6–1, 6–3
2021 India Sania Mirza
China Zhang Shuai
United States Kaitlyn Christian
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
6–3, 6–2
2022 United States Caty McNally
United States Alycia Parks
Poland Alicja Rosolska
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
6–3, 6–2

Men's results

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Singles

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Location Year Champions Runners-up Score
Ostrava
1994 United States MaliVai Washington France Arnaud Boetsch 4–6, 6–3, 6–3
1995 South Africa Wayne Ferreira United States MaliVai Washington 3–6, 6–4, 6–3
1996 Germany David Prinosil Czech Republic Petr Korda 6–1, 6–2
1997 Slovakia Karol Kučera Sweden Magnus Norman 6–2, ret.
1998 United States Andre Agassi Slovakia Ján Krošlák 6–2, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles

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Location Year Champions Runners-up Score
Ostrava
1994 Czech Republic Martin Damm
Czech Republic Karel Nováček
South Africa Gary Muller
South Africa Piet Norval
6–4, 1–6, 6–3
1995 Sweden Jonas Björkman
Argentina Javier Frana
France Guy Forget
Australia Patrick Rafter
6–7, 6–4, 7–6
1996 Australia Sandon Stolle
Czech Republic Cyril Suk
Slovakia Ján Krošlák
Slovakia Karol Kučera
7–6, 6–3
1997 Czech Republic Jiří Novák
Czech Republic David Rikl
United States Donald Johnson
United States Francisco Montana
6–2, 6–4
1998 Germany Nicolas Kiefer
Germany David Prinosil
South Africa David Adams
Czech Republic Pavel Vízner
6–4, 6–3

References

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  1. ^ WTA adds Premier level tournament in Ostrava
  2. ^ ATP, WTA add series of events to fill out post-US Open calendar
  3. ^ "AGEL Open (Ostrava Open)". Retrieved July 17, 2023.
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