The Virginia Slims of Denver is a defunct
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
affiliated
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played from 1972 to 1991. It was held in
Denver, Colorado in the United States (in 1991:
Aurora, Colorado, at a nine miles' distance from Denver) and played on indoor
hard courts from 1972 to 1984 and on indoor
carpet courts from 1985 to 1991.
Françoise Dürr was the most successful player at the tournament, winning the doubles competition three times, once with Australian
Lesley Hunt
Lesley Hunt (born 29 May 1950) is a former tennis player from Perth, Western Australia.
Particularly noted as a junior player, in 1964 at the age of 14 she won a rare double in the Western Australian Women's open, taking both the Open and Ju ...
and twice with Dutchwoman
Betty Stöve.
Results
Singles
Doubles
See also
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Denver Open
The Denver Open Invitational was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played intermittently in the Denver, Colorado area from 1947 to 1963. Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (born October 23, 1935) is a Puerto Rican p ...
– men's tournament
References
WTA Results Archive
External links
Hard court tennis tournaments
Carpet court tennis tournaments
Indoor tennis tournaments
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States
1972 establishments in Colorado
1991 disestablishments in Colorado
Recurring sporting events established in 1972
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1991
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