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]

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

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   Henrieta Nagyová   Silvia Farina 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Ostrava
2020   Aryna Sabalenka   Victoria Azarenka 6–2, 6–2
2021   Anett Kontaveit   Maria Sakkari 6–2, 7–5
2022   Barbora Krejčíková   Iga Świątek 5–7, 7–6(7–4), 6–3

Doubles

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Location Year Champions Runners-up Score
Prostějov
1999   Alexandra Fusai
  Nathalie Tauziat
  Květa Hrdličková
  Helena Vildová
3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Ostrava
2020   Elise Mertens
  Aryna Sabalenka
  Gabriela Dabrowski
  Luisa Stefani
6–1, 6–3
2021   Sania Mirza
  Zhang Shuai
  Kaitlyn Christian
  Erin Routliffe
6–3, 6–2
2022   Caty McNally
  Alycia Parks
  Alicja Rosolska
  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   MaliVai Washington   Arnaud Boetsch 4–6, 6–3, 6–3
1995   Wayne Ferreira   MaliVai Washington 3–6, 6–4, 6–3
1996   David Prinosil   Petr Korda 6–1, 6–2
1997   Karol Kučera   Magnus Norman 6–2, ret.
1998   Andre Agassi   Ján Krošlák 6–2, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles

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