WTA 125 tournaments explained
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.
Tournament locations
Asia
Europe
- Andorra: Andorra la Vella (2022–present)
- 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–present)
- 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
South America
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 |
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| Singles | 125 | 81 | 49 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
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| Doubles | 1 | colspan=4 |
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| Doubles (8D) | 1 | |
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Singles champions
WTA 125K Series
| Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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| Newport Beach | colspan="6" | | |  Brengle |
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| Cali | | | colspan="7" |
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| Indian Wells | colspan="6" | | | Begu |
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| San Antonio | colspan="4" | | colspan="4" |
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| Guadalajara | colspan="7" | | |
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| Zhengzhou | colspan="2" | colspan="3" | |  S Zheng | colspan="2" |
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| Xi'an | colspan="2" | | colspan="5" | rowspan="2" |
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| Anning | colspan="2" | colspan="4" | | S Zheng |
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| West Hempstead | colspan="4" | | colspan="4" |
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| Bol | colspan="4" | | | | Zidanšek | rowspan="4" |
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| Båstad | colspan="7" |  Doi |
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| Karlsruhe | colspan="7" |  Țig |
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| Chicago/New Haven | colspan="6" | |  Blinkova |
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| Nanchang | colspan="2" | | | colspan="5" |
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| Prague | colspan="3" | colspan="4" | |  Kučová |
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| Suzhou | | | | colspan="4" | | |
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| Portschach | colspan="4" | colspan="4" | |
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| Dalian | colspan="3" | | | | colspan="3" |
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| Ningbo | | | | colspan="6" |
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| Warsaw | colspan="8" | |
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| Nanjing | | | | | colspan="5" |
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| Pune or Mumbai | | colspan="4" | | | colspan="2" |
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| Hua Hin | colspan="3" | | | | | colspan="2" |
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| Taipei | | | | | | Bencic |  Kumkhum | Diatchenko | rowspan="3" |
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| Houston | colspan="6" | Peng |  Flipkens |
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| Limoges | colspan="2" | | | | | Alexandrova | Alexandrova |
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| Carlsbad or Honolulu | colspan="2" | | | | Zhang | colspan="2" | | |
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WTA 125
Records
Most titles by player
Most finals by player
Most titles by country
| No. | Singles |
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| 18 | United States |
| 11 | China |
| 10 | Russia ± |
| 9 | Romania |
| 8 |  Italy |
| 7 |  Spain |
| 6 | Belgium |
 Egypt |
 France |
| 5 | Switzerland | |
| No. | Doubles |
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| 23 | United States |
| 13 | China |
| Chinese Taipei |
| 12 | Japan |
| 11 | Russia |
| Spain |
| 9 |  Czech Republic |
 Georgia |
| Romania |
| 7 | Slovenia | |
Youngest champions
Oldest champions
Highest-ranked winners
Lowest-ranked winners
See also
Notes and References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20151126164030if_/http://www.wtatennis.com/tournaments/tournamentId/3043/title/oec-taipei-wta-ladies-open OEC WTA Challenger
- Web site: Taipei to host first WTA tennis challenger event . 18 May 2012 . 30 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141109123607if_/http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120518000060&cid=1104 . 9 November 2014 . dead . dmy-all .
Podoroska
Haddad Maia
Jang
Danilović
Fręch
Yastremska
Bondár
Grabher
Sharma
Zarazúa